Originally posted by mrltd
They also (LS1) have a stronger block and roller cam bearings. Great motors.
There's always been lots of "borrowing" going on between the various manu's though........
Siamesed exhaust ports? the notorious SBC trait..........Found a year earlier on the Ford Y-Block..........
Oh and I love the "technology" crap that the imports get credit for. Overhead cams........ HAHAHAHHAHAH 1960's 427 SOHC (cammer) or the 302 Indy Cammer from around the same era......... GM had Fuel Injection on the Vette back in the day, and there were the Hillborn setups...... Ford had sequential EFI in 86, Honda was still using carburetors............
Variable valve timing was used back on STEAM engines as early as 1914 in Great Britain
None of this crap is NEW, but slap a name on it like "DOHC VTEC" and all of a sudden its a technology marvel............
I bet for the whopping one season they ran (and won) that the Torino Talledega with the BOSS 429 under the hood would have been quite the sight to see in NASCAR..............
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