That cam in the LT-1 is gigantic! I wonder what the lift and LSA were on it though......

 

.459 / .485 116 LSA

Says right on that article page posted

 

I never said I could read Damn thats pretty epic fail though. Surprisingly aggressive stock cam.

 

Back in the day GM always under rated the HP numbers for insurance purposes, such as the 1970 LS6, it was rated at 450 HP where in fact it made closer to 500, even the 427 made close to the 500 mark. A friend of mine had a 1970 LT1, put 4.11 gears, headders, rest was stock. With slicks he was running 12.2's. I get pissed at the fact where magazine articles will say that the LS6 ran like 14 quarter mile times, but they don't say that's on bias ply tires smoking them all the way down the track. I saw a 70 LS6 chevelle run the quarter in the mid 13's smoking the tires pretty much through the 1/8..Same as the LT1, they claim 14.1 in the quarter, maybe with Granny behind the wheel..

 

An LS1 in this case would likely make 400 hp.

 

Indeed.

There was a SPEED show like two years ago where they ran all these old cars again using both the stock tires, and then modern drag radials and the differences were huge! A couple of them were in the 12s stock.

Its crazy the skinny little slippery tires they had under those beastly engines.

 

Makes me wanna yank the acc. off my car now lol

 

242/254 solid cam.
Wowza

 

Cool. So, our LT1's kick much booty?

 

I think what it says is if you went back to 1970 you would have a nice motor. Nowadays to have a nice motor you need 800+rwhp

love how times change

 

How does that old LT-1 cam or aka crane's blueprint muscle car cam compare to the GM847 cam, and which is more aggressive would you guys say?

 

...Oh dear.

 

very cool

 

...And the 4 wheel drum brakes!!!



A guy I worked with back in the early 70s had a '66 Dodge Charger, with the 426 Hemi. He bought it brand new. It came from the factory with 7.75-14 tires!! Admittedly, they were GoodYear Blue Streaks, but nonetheless, a car with close to 500 hp, on tires with a 4" tread width!!

 

gotta love it when someone digs up an old thread to ask off the wall questions..

 

Are you drunk? As said earlier a ls1 in this scenario would make at least 400hp. Lt1 is not touching that

 

Hey give em a little credit...atleast he had to have been using the search feature to find this thread