Just reading over your signs. The bird is very wicked, screw convinsing people its a firebird, tell them its a Screaming banshy Which is what I think GM wanted to call the birds before they settled on Firebird

 

Just for the sake of argument, hehe, what if you had an 02 with a LS6 block and intake, took that put in on LS6 heads and cam would it still be a LS1? Is it an LS1-based LS6? just my .02.

 

I like telling people its an experimental gm V-6. the modle is BS-V-6

 

that was retarded. call it whatever you want.

 

But iron 6.0l blocks wouldnt be considered ls1, right?

408 ls1?

 

Wrong

 

uhh LS3.14~?

 

not really, i mean if u replaced the nessecary parts then it would be an ls6. now if u wanna be technical the ls6 block would make it an ls6 based ls1. its when u go to different blocks tht the designation changes. reason being a 408/402/427/454 is not built from an ls1/ls6 block and so on.. when the block stays the same the designation does. but the ls6 blocked cars i guess u could call an extremely downtuned ls6.

 

I still refer to my LQ9 block in the Formula as an iron block LS1 ... same difference to me, I could care less about silly names...

 

Technically an LS1 is a 5.7 liter all aluminum gen III V8. The other gen III motors all have their own designations.

The designations are
LS1
LS6
LR4 (4.8L)
LM4, LM7, L59 (5.3L)
LQ4 (6.0 w/325 hp)
LQ9 (6.0 w/377 hp)

 

He got us there. I agree with you. I am going to stop calling my motor an LS1 and Start calling it and LS6. When I finaly finish the 408 I am going to call it and LQ something. I have no idea if it was the 325hp or 377hp. It was an 04 pickup motor. I am not trying to be silly either.

Or we could just to like we use to do with the SBC and just call it what the cubes came out to be, 346 (5.7L), 402, 408 (6.6L?), 427 (7L)

I think thats what the 4 cyl. guys do to.

 

If it came out of a pickup I think that makes it an LQ4. The LQ9 went in the cadillac escalade (sp?). Not sure what else might have received it...

 

So what is a F body that came with a LS6 block from the factory but a LS1 cam, LS1 heads etc.?
I would still say it was a LS1 with a LS6 block.
So the block method dosen't always work.
Now if you changed to a LS6 head, LS6 cam then it would be a LS6.
I say it is a LS1 forever, and the only way it isn't a LS1 is if you do a LS6 block, with 243 castings and whatever cam.
Or if you did a 6.0 iron or LS2 block with whatever parts.

This topic is why the name LSx came around.
For those who dont really have a LS1, or a LS6, or a 6.0 but a combo of them.

 

the 4cyl guys use the weird jap designation for the motors. jus designate ur motor by its cubes and scrap the ls/lq designation. the 402 i think is like 6.55~ somethin

 

I just realized that if you knew nothing about cars this whole thread would be like reading spanish, to a non spanish person.

 

I say just call it an ls1 for the most part.

It's like calling all the car's f-body's but if you want to get more specifiec you have camaro , firebird, ws6, z28,ss.

In the end they are all Gen 3 motors.

 

 

I plan on getting 6.6L decals to put on my hood behind the Ram Air decals, once I put the 408 in it. Only reason for this is because around 78ish pontiac put 6.6L on some of the cars. I just doing it for that nostalgic thing. Since they did it back then it makes it kind lagit.

 

this thread is like arguing over what kind of **** dog you have(small yappy annoying *** muts). in the end you still have a **** dog.

 

Look no further than the option code sticker on the inside door of the 02 car and it would read "LS1" not "LS6". That's the old school way of identifying an engine. Though it's harder to do it like that for the Gen III/IV engines because of how the parts interchange.