The reasons to swap a LSx motor into everything

[dubbsy]

I just love builds like that....

I want my 80 Tbird back...

[94NDTA]

Grr;205660 wrote:
Check out this months story in HOT ROD mag. This is the reason i preach swapping a LSx motor, (specifically the 5.3) into everything. especially RX-7s and 240's. (zac, you fag)
Just so you know, 5.3s can be had for about $450 at salvage yards, a really nice one for about $700, the damn things are cheap as honda motors
http://www.1320video.com/gallery/HRMFairmont
Gary

How good are the motors as far as boost/spray?

[Grr]

well that one has ran up to 18psi, when the 70mm turbo ran out of juice! At 18psi it was making 647whp, through a stalled TH400 to boot. so id venture to guess thats around 720hp at the crank, at least. As far as spray goes, theres alot of guys running 175-200 hits on them with no problems, just dont fuck up.

[inspector01]

I would guess they are looking at more than 720 at the crank unless that tranny is very effiecent.

[MisterCMK]

I think that last month or maybe the month before had a special edition thing on the LQ9 6.0 truck motor. Apparently they can move out.

[capitlj]

dubbsy;205689 wrote:
I want my 80 Tbird back...

You had a box fox schweet.

[KA-T_240]

O, just realized, if you put the motor out of the truck in your car..... I am not alone with a truck motor! YAY!

[zbrown]

fuck V8's..................

if i did anything I would keep it straight......

vortec 4.2L I-6 FTW............. I would rock the hell out of that before a 5.3

everything is so much simpler and just looks way better IMO

[Bookem]

Yes, same rwd civic tsiguy posted last month.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=A5nuH-AlBQE&feature=related
And for all the people that didn't like it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=-Fljs6YhJ_I&feature=related

[zbrown]

[bubba]

[JohnW]

I can see why you would want to, I guess I'm just not a fan. Brings me back to highschool when all the shopfags would talk about how they were 'gonna throw a threefiddy' in just about anything with wheels and it would 'be fast as shit' because 'threefiddy got balls!!!' after that they would all hyuck it up for a couple of minutes until one of them started telling the rest how he put a butterball turkey into his snowmobile, poured root beer on it and went 120mph right through a snowbank, or something retarded like that. I guess I really can't think of anything that I would put an LS1 into instead of the original motor, except for maybe one of those tiny saturns, that would be pretty cool, or maybe a really old celica or datsun 210 or something.

[capitlj]

That R34 in Australia with the turbo LS7 is a monster and doesnt have the oiling problems that it did with the I6. There is something to be said about the symmetry of a V8 versus a Inline motor its a very pleasing asthetic. V8 FTW as always.

[MisterCMK]

JohnW;205758 wrote:
I can see why you would want to, I guess I'm just not a fan. Brings me back to highschool when all the shopfags would talk about how they were 'gonna throw a threefiddy' in just about anything with wheels and it would 'be fast as shit' because 'threefiddy got balls!!!' after that they would all hyuck it up for a couple of minutes until one of them started telling the rest how he put a butterball turkey into his snowmobile, poured root beer on it and went 120mph right through a snowbank, or something retarded like that. I guess I really can't think of anything that I would put an LS1 into instead of the original motor, except for maybe one of those tiny saturns, that would be pretty cool, or maybe a really old celica or datsun 210 or something.

QFT lol

[MisterCMK]

zbrown;205750 wrote:

Bah, put a Ford 300ci I6 in it.

[KA-T_240]

capitlj;205790 wrote:
That R34 in Australia with the turbo LS7 is a monster and doesnt have the oiling problems that it did with the I6. There is something to be said about the symmetry of a V8 versus a Inline motor its a very pleasing asthetic. V8 FTW as always.

What about a R34??? You mean that R33

There should be no oiling problems with the RB motors, unless it was not put together right. The RB26 stock bottom end has been proven to make 600whp+

[94NDTA]

This gives me an idea...turbo LSX in white car....put LT1w/built tranny in my S10 blazer...:icon_scratch:

[JN210]

psh....while we are all dreaming big....why not just throw a Lamborghini engine in it?

[94NDTA]

I'm not dreaming.

[inspector01]

It really isn't dreaming big, the motors aren't that expensive. Also, a lot easier swap then a lambo motor, not to mention motor, tranny, and parts availability.