Lawhead

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Before I got into the car thing i had a 1958 Mark 58 on the back of a 14 foot feather craft..

But would be cool to have an LT1 LT4 and LT5

alexcoreas

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Just rebuild it and spray it!!!!

Big Al

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Wow! 4 cams and 32 valves and almost as fast as an LS! No wonder it's discontinued.

I'll admit I'm a Devil's advocate, but you can't even be serious about horsepower. The engine has some "cool" value, but it stops when you close the hood. Wait, an idea! Clear plastic hoods! What a "Bling" adder Right up there with 24" Dubs

Al I'm in the shelter, toss all the rusty starters you want

Puck

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LT5 was not discontinued for lack of power - it was too expensive to produce and was never meant to be a long production run. It was more of a pet project engineering feat then a true consumer production engine.

Seems kind of silly to bash it - not much stood in its way during its time period.

Big Al

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Wait just a minute. You can go distributorless and inject and add all the stuff you want to a "Old School" 406. I was saying the value of the car is its a ZR1 LT5. You want to be able to return it to original for future value. But bang for the buck and all that, it would be hard to beat a 383 or 406 with decent parts and you can rebuild it three times for what it would cost to keep a LT5 running long term.

Here are some LT5's for sale.

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/nph/cto/2379860072.html

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/ctd/2450205929.html

You can have one too

Almost bought one myself. Some clown blew up the LT5 and stuck a 6.2 out of a wrecked GTO in it. Was 85% finished. Had some issues with the exhaust and PCM he was trying to use. Decided it was too much of a cluster for Tucson's smog ****'s. He sold off the LT5 so it would cost tons to return it to stock. The car was and may still be in Silver City NM.


Al

GREGG 97Z

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I've seen many zr1's at shows over the years, I'm just saying keep the zr1 engine in them if you can. If you want to build a c4 with an old school carbd engine that's cool, just don't do it to an lt5 car. To me it would be really dissapointing to see anything other than an lt5 in a zr1 car. It was an amazing car and engine in it's day before the ls1 was around, I say keep them original.

kinglt-1

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That car will be worth some cash in stock form down the road! ZR1's are simply badazz!!!!

Big Al

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I'm not knocking the LT5, but it's a 20 year old engine. And they built less that 7,000 cars. That adds up to a lot of part procurement problems. Us LT1 owners are experiencing a tiny bit of that and there are lots of LT1's on the road.

When the ZR1 came out Ford was building Yamaha headed SHO engines and I thought it was another "Me Too" effort by GM. Like the 409, I was sad to see it go.

Al 95 Z28 going together slowly

Slow94Formula

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I was going to suggest Doug Rippie too. I remember hearing that they got rid of a lot (if not all) of their lt5 stuff though. Can't hurt to check I guess.

djjab57

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There was a LT5 for sale in the TX classifieds

Slow94Formula

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It looks like DRM still does LT5 stuff. I thought I remembered seeing a recent thread from Randy (Doug's son) on the local forum. http://www.mngmp.org/forums/showthread.php?t=5635

djjab57

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https://ls1tech.com/forums/texas-cla...te-engine.html

Speed Density

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Maybe in 100yrs.

As much as I loath LTx ZR1's and furthermore the sledghammer, there is no way I'd own one unless I had $20k to have sit in my garage at my mansion, on my hill, on my island.

Tony.

Transamthunder

STS would be a place to call if you want something really unique. All your turbo stuff goes on after the cats, which you can do in Cali. Long as your car isnt to loud, which it wouldn't be with a set of turbos. They make those Ls1 car silly fast with low boost, easy packaging. I say get with one of the bigger piston companies when you rebuild it and have some custom forged units, maybe lower a bit on compression, and boost the hell out of it. Enjoy it like you want though.

GREGG 97Z

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Some of you guys have grown up I an era where the lsx is the greatest engine out there, which it now is, for the money. In the early 90s before the lt1 was even out the Lt5 zr1 was simply the baddest American car available. This was at the time that 250 hp out of a c4 was considered pretty good.

s346k

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aww come on man. you said it yourself, that engine is 20 years old. back in the day there wasn't much of anything that would run with it. also consider...had gm invested even 10 years of r&d into a that 4v ohc motor...imagine what it would be like now. gm has invested much more than that into the ls platform and look how it has grown. we all know that a 4v head motor has more potential. how it performs depends on how good the engineers are. and gm engineers are still kicking *** and taking names, despite the use of a prehistoric pushrod design.

you can't look at a limited production motor that was manufactured for a very short time and say...wow, what a pos. at the very least, give it the credit it is due. and for god's sake, leave the boat anchor gen 1 motors in the garage, under the work benches...big blocks exempt.

Speed Density

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I will gentleman's bet you that within the next four decades no 93-02 Fbody or the LT5 ZR1 will be worth dog **** to anybody but a few people. They wont be the muscle car collectibles of the 60s.

GREGG 97Z

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I'm not saying either one will be worth a fortune any day either. From 89-95 it was the coolest American car to have, just trying to say give the original zr1's some respect.

alexcoreas

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Didn't they produce a twin Turbo LT5?

SexyTransAm

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i was just at the corvette museum this past weekend and saw a twin turbo LT5, said it made like 750 horse with what looked like little bitty *** turbos and piping that was far from smooth.