What's the difference between caprice lt1 and firebird lt1
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Staging Lane
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What's the difference between caprice lt1 and firebird lt1 While taking off my heads on my firebird a head bolt broke the tip broke and is deep in there. I have a spare lt1 from a caprice and was wondering what is the difference between the engines because I was planning on slapping on that motor and building mine and taking it to a machine shop to get that bolt removed but initially I want to know the difference between both motors is there a difference in hp torque cam
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If you have a stock TC and stock gearing, your 0-60 and 1/4 ET could be slightly better with the B-cam.
I shifted my stock B-cam motor at 5900 for best ET's.
If you are considering changing cams in the B-body shortblock, I wouldn't waste time installing a stock F-cam into it. Not enough of a difference to even notice.
I shifted my stock B-cam motor at 5900 for best ET's.
If you are considering changing cams in the B-body shortblock, I wouldn't waste time installing a stock F-cam into it. Not enough of a difference to even notice.
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Staging Lane
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Well I have 3.73 gears I wanted to just throw that motor with my headers and nitrous and see how it does but I wanted to make sure everything will be ok with the CPU and everything I already have a transmission from a caprice
You are way too worked up over the differences of the b-body setup. Realistically the pcm tuning was a bigger difference than the stuff you are worried about. The f-body was tuned for 91 octane, the b-body for 87 octane but it managed to make as much torque sooner and was only down on peak Hp a little, in Bolton trim they make very similar peak numbers with the b-body always retaining a low end advantage.
If anything I think the f-body cam was compromised to help the POS axle they got, rather than the common assumption the b-body was the compromised one.
If anything I think the f-body cam was compromised to help the POS axle they got, rather than the common assumption the b-body was the compromised one.
Some of the B bodies came with the L99, looks identical to the LT1 except it is a 4.3L V8 instead of a 5.7L of the LT1. I always thought it would be cool to take one & use the crank & rods from the L99 & put it into the LT1 & make a 302ci version.
