BOOT77

True story I beat many LS cars with my SBC!

LOL LS are great engines but I'm a SBC guy and any engine can make a car fast with enough money & work. Also helps if you setup the car, for example my C4 Corvette people always ask me if it's a LT1 car and I get a kick showing them the TPI

Just noticed this section and thought I'd troll it LOL I'm just a slow corvette guy!

LLLosingit

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You suck as a troll lol

BOOT77

Yah I'm not much of a troll but I tried!

Sacrilege

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This is stupid.

Fabian

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Cringe

Floorman279

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so your modded SBC is beating a stock ls? cool

btw theres a reason you can buy a SBC shortblock for 1200 bucks new but a new 5.3/5.7 iron shortblock is twice the price

BOOT77

Weren't any stock LS i raced they least had cam and headers and you should know the LS is very under cammed from the factory with those nice flowing heads.

BOOT77

Says the person who made the stupidest post yet!

dannyz

No, he's not.
No reason to go with a small block chevy build unless it's all you can afford, or some old school "gotta have #'s matching" build.
Get a better job, work more hour's if you have to but scrap the small block or sell it to someone who is in denial and dosen't know any better.
This thread is stupid.

BOOT77

You just said he was stupid, I said his post was

SBC>ALL

dannyz

Uh...OK?
Like i said.
Get a better job, work more hour's, lose the sbc.

Floorman279

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only reason to pic a sbc over an ls is if you have a huge weiner, us small weiner guys need all the help we can get

Kjduvall

Pound for pound / dollar for dollar the LS is King.................... Don't get me wrong there's some nice 434in small blocks terrorizing the streets with a bottle. But pull that thing up to a proper forged LQ4 with 20psi /3200lb f-body and a (good) tire. And as your sitting still, you can watch the magic happen....

BOOT77

Figured me out!

BOOT77

LS is a great shortcut vs an older V8, kinda horsepower made easy. I'll leave the bottle vs boost debate to another thread.

RedXray

I've been building SBC since the mid 70's. I've have had my hands on some rare race parts mostly from NASCAR teams (lived in Charlotte). Like the SBC 292 turbo castings that were the "holy grail" heads of the day. A set of Penske/Traco AMC heads from Allison's team when they switched to Mercury's in 1976... but that's another story. I love the small block, but not so blinded to see the vast improvement of the LS platform.

The LS engine is much more robust with it's 6 bolt mains, oiling system and gasket design. I've never seen a performance SBC that didn't develop an oil leak somewhere from internal pressure, usually in the two piece rear seal. Ever do a SBC in car camshaft swap??? You have to dogear ( \ / ) the front cover lips with a grinder to slip past the oil pan, easy leak area. The LS has superior cast front & rear covers along with cast valve covers... while only a handful of SBC even offered cast valve covers. Face it the stamped covers on a SBC are junk and will leak if slightly over torqued. The LS at 250,000 plus miles is still going strong compared to a SBC wore slap out at 90,000 miles.

QwkTrip

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BOOT77

The LS factory block is nice but so is a aftermarket SBC and LS aftermarket is nice as well. Now they do make aftermarket two piece timing covers that aren't stamped. Also prep & sealer helps but any engine will leak with too much blow-by, seen an ls do it. Mileage just look at the vortec 350 that used those same modern better machining standards/rings n so on, plenty of them with high miles.

I'm surprised you didn't bring u heads, I'm well aware of the many LS advantages over a stock sbc. Many of the things you do to improve or have to go aftermarket are already done to a LS. As I said in my first post the LS is a great engine but...

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Christopher Mcarthur

True story when I raced a SBC that was HCI I still won even though my own valves made their own reliefs in my pistons. I was just a measly hurt ls1 that put down 329rwhp at the time. But hey LS sucks!