Old dog trying to learn new tricks!
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Teching In
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From: S. Jersey
Old dog trying to learn new tricks! Hi, I am new here and wanted to learn more about the LS engines. I’m Retired and a big fan of all sorts of motorsports.Back in the late 70s and throughout the 80s I used to drag race a lot traveling up and down the East Coast and as far west as Bowling Green Kentucky and Indy. I have a 69 Chevy Nova now for cruise nights and small shows.
Being kind of old school when I hear LT1my first thought is of the 1970 Corvette and Camaro Z 28. Being that Chevrolet recycles there RPO numbers I guess were on the third interation of the LT1! I don’t adjust well to new technology, I was one of the holdouts crossing the digital divide with computers. Same goes for the first Generation small block and the Mark IV Big block Chevy. Several years ago somebody told me about and I looked into a block that they made that accepted GEN1 small block Chevy Short block components but used the LS heads, I thought that was great being that I had a lot of short block components and with the high flowing LS heads I would have the best of both worlds. Fast forward a few years and I’m looking close up at a LS engine on a stand,The castings and machine work looks really good, but what sold me on these LS motors is the performance they’re getting out of these, absolutely incredible! So maybe it’s time for me to embrace modern (for me!) technology. I hope you don’t mind me hanging around here and getting familiar with the different variations of these engines
( Ls1 to Ls9 and Lt1to Lt4)and just maybe I’ll start a new project! Thanks, Rob.
Being kind of old school when I hear LT1my first thought is of the 1970 Corvette and Camaro Z 28. Being that Chevrolet recycles there RPO numbers I guess were on the third interation of the LT1! I don’t adjust well to new technology, I was one of the holdouts crossing the digital divide with computers. Same goes for the first Generation small block and the Mark IV Big block Chevy. Several years ago somebody told me about and I looked into a block that they made that accepted GEN1 small block Chevy Short block components but used the LS heads, I thought that was great being that I had a lot of short block components and with the high flowing LS heads I would have the best of both worlds. Fast forward a few years and I’m looking close up at a LS engine on a stand,The castings and machine work looks really good, but what sold me on these LS motors is the performance they’re getting out of these, absolutely incredible! So maybe it’s time for me to embrace modern (for me!) technology. I hope you don’t mind me hanging around here and getting familiar with the different variations of these engines
( Ls1 to Ls9 and Lt1to Lt4)and just maybe I’ll start a new project! Thanks, Rob.
Welcome RJ.
I'm almost 60...I was a hard core Big Block Chevy guy from the mid 70's till about 1998...Came over to the dark side with my first LS swap...I've never looked back. Make the jump, you'll never regret it...
I'm almost 60...I was a hard core Big Block Chevy guy from the mid 70's till about 1998...Came over to the dark side with my first LS swap...I've never looked back. Make the jump, you'll never regret it...
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Teching In
Joined: Jul 2020
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From: S. Jersey
Thanks for the welcome guys!
does anybody know where there’s a page or a chart that shows a time frame when these engines were built and what some of the changes Were that made them different from the previous model? Like When they change from flat tappet to roller, cast-iron block to aluminum, different engine displacement, cathedral port to rectangular port And wet sump to dry sump etc.
does anybody know where there’s a page or a chart that shows a time frame when these engines were built and what some of the changes Were that made them different from the previous model? Like When they change from flat tappet to roller, cast-iron block to aluminum, different engine displacement, cathedral port to rectangular port And wet sump to dry sump etc.
