Why is the LT1 better than any other engine for budget?

friendly reminder

>they are 90% LS1s w/o aluminum heads
no

Also, optispark...

>1.3L
>1.0L
>6.0L
at least make it a fair comparison.

Like change the LS V8 for a 2.5L Iron Duke.

2.4 iron duke is still an inline 4 dumb ass

but it's a pushrod I4 retard

>pushrod i4
wow thats disgusting

>LT1 Firebird

no thanks, LS1 or bust

ITT: butthurt weebs

>lol pushrods
>muh revs
>muh turbo
>muh destroyed apex seals
>muh jdm
Your only argument is against pushrods? Weak, just like the motor in your 4 banger shitbox

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But also optispark, in the process of replacing that now.

The Iron duke was famous for its reliability... which is actually where the nickname came from. To make it they literally took a Pontiac pushrod V8, and chopped the engine in half, only using 1 bank. They made like 90-95 HP factory, or you could order a Cosworth developed DOHC conversion kit from the dealership that bumped power to over 300 HP N/A

kek, fucking triggered

>pushplebs: 90 hp
>DOHC: 300 hp

another vitory for team OHC

and which one is street legal?

>posts Anime
>doesn't have a retort
Yes, you are triggered

>when Veeky Forums gets into a fight over a chunk of metal

the one who isn't a cuck living in an emission testing state

That also wasn't the last time GM turned a pushrod engine into a DOHC screamer.
Meet the LQ1.
GM took their 3.1L pushrod V6, bored it out to 3.4L and threw on some high flowing DOHC heads.
Normal 3.1L: 140 HP
DOHC 3.4L: 210 HP detuned.

>Dirt cheap, $500-600 for a complete engine
More like $2180 here when converted to US dollar.

That size difference is not large.
>for an extra few inches of width one can have a reliable 300+ hp before"fancy" IHE mods.

Where is your argument?

And then there was the LT5. Which was literally a 350 Chevy small block with DOHC.
normal 350 small block LT1 in 1993: 300 HP
DOHC 350 small block LT5 in 1993: 405 HP

Old LT1's are shit.
New LT1's are fucking expensive.

LS is still best.

New LT's can be carbed though. Disable the fuel injection and slap a carby on there, done. There's just no reason to, unless you're going for a period correct look (or desperately need a negligeable extra heat drawn out of your intake air).

>I live in cuckistan
It's not our fault that you have to live under Ahmeds laws

>Cuckistan
I already said I didn't live in USA.
I live in a place where tax is high and yearly car safety inspection is done.
large engines are taxed. The larger the engine, the higher the tax.

>I don't know how direct fuel injection works
The pistons are weird as fuck and specific for direct injection. There's also the second fuel pump to worry about

>high tax
>yearly inspection
>taxed by displacement
And you're saying you don't live in cuckland?

>a 6.0 block is still light enough to be carried by a manlet

easily more impressive than the top two images

>tfw no DOHC Iron Duke Fiero
>tfw no LQ1 Fiero
Stop making me want to buy a Fiero

Except that's a plastic engine for mocking up engine swaps.

Fun fact though, I lifted a ej25d out of a fucking car with everything on it, including the torque converter.
I'm guessing it weighed 350 pounds.
Lesson learned, the Internet lies. (said it was 180)

>high tax
bad if you wanna be rich, but you don't really have to bother trying to be poor since tax is your safety net and gives you money if you can't get it yourself.
>yearly inspection
fucking good, unless you want to drive around people knowing that every single car you meet can drop a tire or fail braking or blowing up because nobody have inspected the car since it's release.
>taxed by displacement
This is pure bullshit though, but they do it because the higher the power, the more frat idiots it attracts thus filling the roads with kids that don't know how to handle it AKA Ford Mustang drivers.

>you can carburate if you're a faggot too
Isn't that a good thing if you don't have them ecus and wiring harnesses and computers and shit?
Can't you get ignition from a regular coil pack on those things or is everything computer controlled in those?

Who is this semen demon

howcome every time i post in a thread on 1st page that seems to be active they die?

Question. Can you actually add cams to an LS1 or most LS engines in general?

How much would it cost? (would it be expensive or can it be done for not much more)

Can it be done reliably/does the engine retain its reliability?

Can it still fit in most Corvettes? (i heard a DOHC V8 couldn't fit in Vettes like the C5)

How much of a power increase can you expect?

.... no. Have more Fiero porn.

This engine from Mercury Marine (who built the original DOHC LT5 for GM) is a DOHC V8 based on the LS1 architecture. I think it's like 10k as a crate engine.
They call it the QC4V, or the Quad Cam 4 valve.
mercuryracing.com/automotive/

>bad if you want to be rich
So you want to remain poor?
>people's cars could potentially break
That's why insurance exists

...

Pistons are optimised for direct injection, not direct injection only. Race gas through a carby should work the stock bottom end without knocking. Lowering compression (different pistons, different heads, maybe just a thicker headgasket) will alow for the use of pump fuel.

Second fuel pump can be disabled. Just route the fuel straight from the tank to the pump to the carb.

What if the person that crashes into you don't have insurance?
Here he'd have to pay everything from his own pocket if that happened, it also wouldn't raise your premium even if he had a insurance or not.

Then again, why would you rather want to be in a car accident than knowing everyone have safe cars?

>1650 Horsepower

WEW!

It's a 9.0L twin turbo.

Yes, but it's be hilariously expensive.

It would improve sustained high RPM reliability. Parts availability would be a bitch.

Probably wouldn't fit. You can expect a DOHC V8 to be about 2 to 4 inches wider then it's pushrod equivalent.

Negligable power increase. You'd be better off with a set of good flowing, CNC ported LS heads insteads. You try finding me a set of 400cfm DOHC heads. I'll wait.

cuck