7 Green LS Powered Cars for St. Patrick's Day
You've got your green shirt and your green beer for St. Patrick's Day, now all you need are these green LS powered cars.
1. Raelene Drew's HR Holden
Raelene Drew's virtually stock looking HR Holden is exactly the kind of car that makes a prime LS swap candidate. It's totally unassuming yet supremely cool, and if brought stateside nobody would suspect it to be anything other than a clean cruiser, but under the hood lies a 403ci LQ9 with fortified internals and an S480 Borg Warner turbo producing 17psi of boost. That enables the little Holden to run 9.25 in the 1/4 mile - column shifter and all.
2. "Froggy" Isuzu Pickup
The owner of this Isuzu pickup, appropriately named "Froggy," ditched the stock truck's four banger for something a little more appropriate. Now motivated by a 427ci LS with twin Forced Induction turbos, the humble little truck frequently terrorizes local drag strips around Houston, as you can see here.
3. 10-Second "One Tonner"
Another awesome green LS powered Australian ride is this Holden One Tonner. Produced from 1971-1984 and 2003-2005, the One Tonner is a cab chassis vehicle designed for commercial use down under. You typically see these things with all sorts of different beds and hauling all sorts of different loads, but you rarely see one with a turbocharged LS running consistent 10.4's in the 1/4 mile.
4. Hocky Johansson’s Volvo 242
Swedish born Hocky Johansson’s 1975 Volvo 242 is a super sanitary ride that also happens to have a beast of a powerplant under the hood. The Procharger topped LS1 sits on custom mounts that allow it to sit low and back toward the firewall for optimum weight distribution. Even with a home built suspension, the classic Volvo produces prodigious amounts of tire smoke on command.
5. Kurt Urban's 1972 Nova
If you're not already familiar with Kurt Urban's awesome 1972 Nova, you need to be. It's one of the cooler iterations of sleeper that you'll ever see, with a beat up exterior and shredded interior, but beneath the pedestrian appearance lies an all aluminum W2W LS2 sucking air through a pair of Rotrex superchargers. With two different fuel delivery systems - one for race and one for street - the unassuming Nova pumps out 1,160 raging horsepower.
6. Weapons Grade Performance Scion FR-S
Everybody knows that the Toyota/Scion FR-S and its identical twin, the Subaru BRZ, are criminally underpowered, but like anything else in life, an LS swap is the obvious solution to the problem. Weapons Grade Performance manufactures an LS swap kit for these cars so you can create a screaming Japanese sports machine with American muscle car power like this green FR-S.
7. Crawlmaro
This Camaro skinned rock crawling dune buggy, cleverly dubbed "Crawlmaro," obviously has a lot going for it. The impressive off road monster (and it really is used off road, and not gently) is far from your typical backwoods Camaro dropped on a Blazer frame type build, too. Aside from a host of impressive off road parts, Crawlmaro uses an LSX with a Holley Dominator EFI on top, plus a turbo for power, and cut and spliced 5th Generation Camaro body work for a nose.
For help with maintaining your LS powered ride, check out the how to section of LS1Tech.com