I recently had a mechanical engineer and a hard core ford guy tell me that the ls motor is the most bad *** v8 on the planet even with the fact that it is pushrod and 2 valve...he sounded sincere. I thought it was a pretty nice compliment. No, it's no LT5...but really whats the difference as long as makes the power and stays together, who cares?
I was thinking about these last two posts and the only things I could come up with are that it may not be as pretty...which is very debatable with that blower and it isn't an OHC4V motor...it may not sound as sick as an LT5...I don't know.
I know GM put a lot of thought into keeping the pushrod design when they had the chance to really change the small block when the LS motor was in the thinktank stages...I mean a lot of very smart people decided to keep the design Vs. going the OHC route...That's a testiment to history, heritage, technology, chevy v8 culture, etc.
I wish I could afford one, I would get it in a heartbeat, it's bound to be bad to the bone.
Rick
