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Posted: 1/16/2015 11:03:39 PM EDT
Strengths and weaknesses
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Weaknesses? They didn't come stock in 1/2 of the cars that people put them in.
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http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RPM_CamaroZ/ls1god.jpg Pretty stout motor. Very good baseline in stock form. Easy HP gains with just intake/exhaust combo. Add heads and cam and 400+ wheel HP is possible. Aftermarket support is endless at the moment. Has a tendency to burn oil through the PCV system. Piston slap is a common complaint. It sounds like knocking but is supposedly the hypereutectic pistons expanding and doesnt actually harm the engine. I have a 99 trans am and it has piston slap. I hate it but no problems yet. I let the car warm up until I dont hear it anymore. While people say its no biggy I cant bring myself to drive it under those conditions. View Quote Add a catch can. Are you sure it isn't the lifters making a little racket? |
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Sledgehammer reliable. Cheap to modify, take boost, and juice well. Solid bottom end. Simple design, no dohc BS.
Aftermarket support like a 1911. It was/is the game changer. You cant fuck with LS engines. There is NOTHING in the realm of internal combustion engines that can compete with them on the street, even at twice the cost. Unless your going for nostalgia, even a junkyard LS-whatever will crush pretty much anything. If your doing a project whatever, your ignoring the facts by NOT using a LS based powerplant. |
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Large after market support for them.
I've been sorta looking for a good deal on a used LQ4 for a future project. |
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http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RPM_CamaroZ/ls1god.jpg Pretty stout motor. Very good baseline in stock form. Easy HP gains with just intake/exhaust combo. Add heads and cam and 400+ wheel HP is possible. Aftermarket support is endless at the moment. Has a tendency to burn oil through the PCV system. Piston slap is a common complaint. It sounds like knocking but is supposedly the hypereutectic pistons expanding and doesnt actually harm the engine. I have a 99 trans am and it has piston slap. I hate it but no problems yet. I let the car warm up until I dont hear it anymore. While people say its no biggy I cant bring myself to drive it under those conditions. Add a catch can. Yep, standard add on for a non stock LS motor. Very stout motors. Reasonably cheap HP. Adding a turbo will leave streaks on the road and in the seat. |
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Only thing better than an LS1 is a LS2 or 3.....
Love mine.... |
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Best gasoline powered engines ever.
Anyone who disagrees lives in fantasy land. |
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There are rough;y a million billion parts for that family of motors.
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Add a catch can. Are you sure it isn't the lifters making a little racket? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RPM_CamaroZ/ls1god.jpg Pretty stout motor. Very good baseline in stock form. Easy HP gains with just intake/exhaust combo. Add heads and cam and 400+ wheel HP is possible. Aftermarket support is endless at the moment. Has a tendency to burn oil through the PCV system. Piston slap is a common complaint. It sounds like knocking but is supposedly the hypereutectic pistons expanding and doesnt actually harm the engine. I have a 99 trans am and it has piston slap. I hate it but no problems yet. I let the car warm up until I dont hear it anymore. While people say its no biggy I cant bring myself to drive it under those conditions. Add a catch can. Are you sure it isn't the lifters making a little racket? Nope. It's piston slap. The lifters usually last a while. The rod bolts are the weakest links in the engine. A cam, full exhaust, lid and ls6 intake or FAST intake will put you mid 400hp to the tires. |
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe.
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Add a catch can. Are you sure it isn't the lifters making a little racket? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RPM_CamaroZ/ls1god.jpg Pretty stout motor. Very good baseline in stock form. Easy HP gains with just intake/exhaust combo. Add heads and cam and 400+ wheel HP is possible. Aftermarket support is endless at the moment. Has a tendency to burn oil through the PCV system. Piston slap is a common complaint. It sounds like knocking but is supposedly the hypereutectic pistons expanding and doesnt actually harm the engine. I have a 99 trans am and it has piston slap. I hate it but no problems yet. I let the car warm up until I dont hear it anymore. While people say its no biggy I cant bring myself to drive it under those conditions. Add a catch can. Are you sure it isn't the lifters making a little racket? x2 on the catch can. I run conventional oil and change every 3k now that i commute with it 150 miles daily, so I don't lose much. When I was going with longer change intervals I'd lose over a quart. The sound mine makes is almost like a knocking, its definitely not my lifters. Goes away like clockwork once it warms up a bit. |
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Nope. It's piston slap. The lifters usually last a while. The rod bolts are the weakest links in the engine. A cam, full exhaust, lid and ls6 intake or FAST intake will put you mid 400hp to the tires. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RPM_CamaroZ/ls1god.jpg Pretty stout motor. Very good baseline in stock form. Easy HP gains with just intake/exhaust combo. Add heads and cam and 400+ wheel HP is possible. Aftermarket support is endless at the moment. Has a tendency to burn oil through the PCV system. Piston slap is a common complaint. It sounds like knocking but is supposedly the hypereutectic pistons expanding and doesnt actually harm the engine. I have a 99 trans am and it has piston slap. I hate it but no problems yet. I let the car warm up until I dont hear it anymore. While people say its no biggy I cant bring myself to drive it under those conditions. Add a catch can. Are you sure it isn't the lifters making a little racket? Nope. It's piston slap. The lifters usually last a while. The rod bolts are the weakest links in the engine. A cam, full exhaust, lid and ls6 intake or FAST intake will put you mid 400hp to the tires. True. ARP has a fix for that. We have managed to stretch head bolts on them too. |
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Actually it is money well spent to move up to the same architecture but more power with the LS6.
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God's gift to the automotive world. Cheap, fairly compact and lightweight, tons of aftermarket support.
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Had a 2000 Camaro ss.
As a dumb 20 something at the time, I abused the dog shit out of that car, changed the oil every 7,000 miles or more. Only thing I ever had to replace was a fuel pump. ..... |
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Large after market support for them. I've been sorta looking for a good deal on a used LQ4 for a future project. View Quote This. LQ4 + Hairdryers + 60s Buick = FUN! Also pondering doing an LS1 in my toyota 4x4 instead of a Lexus 1UZ. I see no downsides and all up (other then not keeping it all Toyota) |
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Quoted: http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o180/RPM_CamaroZ/ls1god.jpg Pretty stout motor. Very good baseline in stock form. Easy HP gains with just intake/exhaust combo. Add heads and cam and 400+ wheel HP is possible. Aftermarket support is endless at the moment. Has a tendency to burn oil through the PCV system. Piston slap is a common complaint. It sounds like knocking but is supposedly the hypereutectic pistons expanding and doesnt actually harm the engine. I have a 99 trans am and it has piston slap. I hate it but no problems yet. I let the car warm up until I dont hear it anymore. While people say its no biggy I cant bring myself to drive it under those conditions. View Quote ... good post, please buy a membership
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This. LQ4 + Hairdryers + 60s Buick = FUN! Also pondering doing an LS1 in my toyota 4x4 instead of a Lexus 1UZ. I see no downsides and all up (other then not keeping it all Toyota) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Large after market support for them. I've been sorta looking for a good deal on a used LQ4 for a future project. This. LQ4 + Hairdryers + 60s Buick = FUN! Also pondering doing an LS1 in my toyota 4x4 instead of a Lexus 1UZ. I see no downsides and all up (other then not keeping it all Toyota) I'm also looking for a mid 90's Chevy Caprice wagon. I want to bomb the interstate in comfort and have plenty of room for the K-9 unit. |
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe. Compared to what, a turbodiesel? Previously had older TPI cars, that felt like torque monster off idle. Obviously my C5 was much faster, but it felt like it took higher RPM to get it to wake up. Even my little Focus ST feels torquier down low.. obviously the vette was faster in every way. Dyno graphs say I'm crazy.. but the vette just felt a little lame down low, then would rip the tires loose and get crazy at about 4k. |
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Actually it is money well spent to move up to the same architecture but more power with the LS6. View Quote If you're going to upgrade then its not worth the extra money at all. 00-02 LS1 engines were upgraded to LS6 intakes from the factory so they are that much closer. Hell you can build a 5.3 ls from a truck using LS1 parts and have a very strong albeit heavy motor for less than starting with the original LS1 |
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And I'm sure that's all from a stock LS1 just like mine was lol View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe. Compared to what, a turbodiesel? Lack of torque with an LS? http:// http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/MISC/IMG_20140713_144852_163_zps75db798a.jpg This used to be a powerglide. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141018_121532_470_zpse142b89a.jpg And you can put them in nearly anything. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/MISC/Mustang%20Notch/IMG_20150103_193134_191_zpsf6d92c79.jpg And I'm sure that's all from a stock LS1 just like mine was lol Actually.... Yes. It was a stock motor... With a hair dryer on it. It was a 6.0 with a cam and ARP fasteners and a big turbo. It aint stock anymore. |
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Theyve been swapped into about everything. As you can imagine, the aftermarket support for them is huge.
What vehicle do you want to drop one into? |
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15hp at best with a LS6. Best thing to do is find a lq4 and add some ported ls6 heads and a nice camshaft. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Actually it is money well spent to move up to the same architecture but more power with the LS6. 15hp at best with a LS6. Best thing to do is find a lq4 and add some ported ls6 heads and a nice camshaft. From 325 to 405.....you do the math. And that 405 can be upped to 525 RWHP with the proper mods, all motor. And if you want to go all the way with the LS series try the 496 Warhawk tall deck and let your pocket book be your guide. And I agree the LT seems to have more low end torque. |
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Have been looking for one for years that I can take it from a 346 to a 383. When I find one I want to put it in a 68 camaro or 70 Chevelle. Or just stick it in a 2000-2001 camaro.
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And I'm sure that's all from a stock LS1 just like mine was lol View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe. Compared to what, a turbodiesel? Lack of torque with an LS? http:// http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/MISC/IMG_20140713_144852_163_zps75db798a.jpg This used to be a powerglide. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141018_121532_470_zpse142b89a.jpg And you can put them in nearly anything. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/MISC/Mustang%20Notch/IMG_20150103_193134_191_zpsf6d92c79.jpg And I'm sure that's all from a stock LS1 just like mine was lol Stock LS1's were known to crack sunshells early on. Pretty much everyone i know has had a rear end grenade on them. My pinion chewed itself apart at 50k. |
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Stock LS1's were known to crack sunshells early on. Pretty much everyone i know has had a rear end grenade on them. My pinion chewed itself apart at 50k. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe. Compared to what, a turbodiesel? Lack of torque with an LS? http:// http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/MISC/IMG_20140713_144852_163_zps75db798a.jpg This used to be a powerglide. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20141018_121532_470_zpse142b89a.jpg And you can put them in nearly anything. http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c83/goodnbuzzd/MISC/Mustang%20Notch/IMG_20150103_193134_191_zpsf6d92c79.jpg And I'm sure that's all from a stock LS1 just like mine was lol Stock LS1's were known to crack sunshells early on. Pretty much everyone i know has had a rear end grenade on them. My pinion chewed itself apart at 50k. The 10 bolt rear in the f-bodies was known to be dogshit. It was a weak point across at least two generations of the car. Your buddies grenading rears was more about the shitty 10 bolt than the awesomeness of the LS1. |
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Have been looking for one for years that I can take it from a 350 to a 383. When I find one I want to put it in a 68 camero or 70 Chevelle. Or just stick it in a 2000-2001 camero. Wrong, wrong, and wrong. |
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Previously had older TPI cars, that felt like torque monster off idle. Obviously my C5 was much faster, but it felt like it took higher RPM to get it to wake up. Even my little Focus ST feels torquier down low.. obviously the vette was faster in every way. Dyno graphs say I'm crazy.. but the vette just felt a little lame down low, then would rip the tires loose and get crazy at about 4k. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe. Compared to what, a turbodiesel? Previously had older TPI cars, that felt like torque monster off idle. Obviously my C5 was much faster, but it felt like it took higher RPM to get it to wake up. Even my little Focus ST feels torquier down low.. obviously the vette was faster in every way. Dyno graphs say I'm crazy.. but the vette just felt a little lame down low, then would rip the tires loose and get crazy at about 4k. TPI's were definitely torque monsters for their time. A product of the ridiculously long intake tract. Something like 30" from airbox to intake valve. It ran out of breath at 4k though. 3rd gen 350TPI's would still beat 4th gen LT1's across the intersections. After that they kinda got choked up. |
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I love the LS motors. I have a 6 liter in a 2004 2500HD with a 5 speed. It has 186,000 miles on it and reguarly pulls around 14,000 lbs around. It still has great power. The piston slap has gotten a little worse since it has gotten colder, but it goes away once it is warmed up. A tuner and exhaust will help a stock motor tremendously. I plan on driving this one until I can't fix it anymore.
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The 10 bolt rear in the f-bodies was known to be dogshit. It was a weak point across at least two generations of the car. Your buddies grenading rears was more about the shitty 10 bolt than the awesomeness of the LS1. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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Stock LS1's were known to crack sunshells early on. Pretty much everyone i know has had a rear end grenade on them. My pinion chewed itself apart at 50k. The 10 bolt rear in the f-bodies was known to be dogshit. It was a weak point across at least two generations of the car. Your buddies grenading rears was more about the shitty 10 bolt than the awesomeness of the LS1. The rear end fragging is hopefully fixed now. The new rear end was not cheap. Hopefully the trans issue is fixed too. The new one is out of a 1200+ HP car. |
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Best v8 design family in history.
Any man that disagrees sucks cock by choice!
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TPI's were definitely torque monsters for their time. A product of the ridiculously long intake tract. Something like 30" from airbox to intake valve. It ran out of breath at 4k though. 3rd gen 350TPI's would still beat 4th gen LT1's across the intersections. After that they kinda got choked up. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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I was always disappointed by the lack of low end torque in my LS1 car. My only gripe. Compared to what, a turbodiesel? Previously had older TPI cars, that felt like torque monster off idle. Obviously my C5 was much faster, but it felt like it took higher RPM to get it to wake up. Even my little Focus ST feels torquier down low.. obviously the vette was faster in every way. Dyno graphs say I'm crazy.. but the vette just felt a little lame down low, then would rip the tires loose and get crazy at about 4k. TPI's were definitely torque monsters for their time. A product of the ridiculously long intake tract. Something like 30" from airbox to intake valve. It ran out of breath at 4k though. 3rd gen 350TPI's would still beat 4th gen LT1's across the intersections. After that they kinda got choked up. Yep, the TPI's were great fun to zip around in, but not exactly race cars by any stretch. Most guys who were serious about those cars tossed the TPI in the trash. I started an LT1 swap in mine, but lost interest and just got a C5 instead. I'm not trying to trash the LS1 or anything. Just giving my impression of it. I would happily buy another C5 when I have the spare cash again. Hopefully in the next year or two. |
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Actually it is money well spent to move up to the same architecture but more power with the LS6. View Quote Not really. Anything the LS6 brings to the table over the LS1 would be swapped out with a head/cam upgrade anyways. Only thing it has going for it is it has 243 heads already so that will save you from buying 243 cores like you would have to do with ls1. |
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