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Old 03-06-2005, 09:04 AM
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I was hoping an SOHC or DOHC LSx would be..well...cleaner. My car actually turned its nose up and drove away when it saw that ugly engine. Now I have to run after it and bringer it back...
What's the real benefit of this anyway? Only things I can think of is no more bent pushrods or collapsed lifters.
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Old 03-06-2005, 09:12 AM
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no more bent pushrods
AMEN Brotha.


Nothing beats pushrods in my book tho
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Losing a cam belt or oil pump belt is much more expensive than losing a supercharger, waterpump, or alternator belt.
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Old 03-06-2005, 12:32 PM
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Nothing beats pushrods in my book tho
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Old 03-06-2005, 01:38 PM
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bent valves rule!
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Originally Posted by f-bodman
What's the real benefit of this anyway? Only things I can think of is no more bent pushrods or collapsed lifters.
Those are two benefits, but you also loose a lot of valve train weight, and less weight = more power; especially when it comes to the valve train.
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Old 03-06-2005, 01:46 PM
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It boggles the mind lol. I still don't understand how it's physically possible. What did he do with all the empty space, like where the cam used to be? ARGH! My brain hurts!
He probably put a huge stroker crank in it.
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someone posted about 4 valves, but a sohc would only have 2 valves ... it should make more power without having to move lifters and pushrods
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Old 03-06-2005, 08:01 PM
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It's a wash. If it were DOHC and C5R type ports then we'd have something to talk about. Just throwing the cams over the heads (SOHC) doesn't gain you *much* over the stock setup.
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I'll keep my pushrods thank you.
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Old 03-06-2005, 11:19 PM
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I'll keep my pushrods thank you.
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Old 03-07-2005, 07:49 AM
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Its in a issue of kitcar.

The guy that is using this car is scrach building a ferrari GTO. Buit the frame and the body. He is using a vette c5 drivetrain I believe.

oh and there is a phone # to contact the guy that does the SOHC conversion.
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Old 05-11-2005, 10:18 PM
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Here is a link to a thread I just started with a picture of the guy's personal ride, little did I know the subject of SOHC conversions had already come up.

https://ls1tech.com/forums/conversions-swaps/320476-holy-crap.html
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For the SOHC SBC Motor he built, he had these inserts he could remove to unrestrict the intake port (because pushrods in sbcs kinda got in the way).
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Old 05-08-2006, 04:00 PM
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About a year late.
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