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LS1 or LS2

Started by SLO-VK8 · 4 Feb 2009 · 28 replies

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cwreckArchived member
i dont understand?? U guys supplying the engine? and then want a price to get it going?
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vanstrienArchived member
Quote: Originally Posted by cwreck i dont understand?? U guys supplying the engine? and then want a price to get it going? Yeah id love some quotes for everything, give someone the car and it comes back with one of these in it driveable.
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cwreckArchived member
Quote: Originally Posted by vanstrien Yeah id love some quotes for everything, give someone the car and it comes back with one of these in it driveable. pm me your email and i will go from that- i will brake it down from second hand to new from ls1,ls2,l76,l98,ls7 efi all the way to a carby setup with a dizzy Give me a couple of days as its a long list- Just need some time as i have got a bit on my plate- To everyone thanks for all the pms and phone calls- It seems i might come back on here as a sponsor as i have had a big break from this website when i was a sponsor when my freind sin owned it-- Thanks Nick--
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GMH05Archived member
Nick do you work for s&e? Ive been speaking with a Steve gentleman but says hes in NT? Pm sent
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cwreckArchived member
Quote: Originally Posted by GMH05 Nick do you work for s&e? Ive been speaking with a Steve gentleman but says hes in NT? Pm sent No i got my own business with dad which is a wrecking yard which everyone knows and i just started my own performance shop about 5-6 months ago doing lsx stuff- but he is my parts guy for most of the lsx stuff- He has booked in his car for me to do a l98 conversion,it should be here in a week or two Hope that helps- Thanks Nick--
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GouldyArchived member
Does any 1 know if it's possible to get a engineers certificate for a ls2 turbo into a vl?
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7FOUR7Archived member
you could get one, it wouldn't be legit though. Even with engineers you still get defected.
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RB30DEVLArchived member
Quote: Hi guys just looking for some info.. to build which motor is better to use a LS1 5.7ltr or a 6.0 LS2, and what is stronger, for turbo/supercharging in the future aswell. cheers guys The LS2 - LS3 engines are apparently the strongest ones to use for forced induction because they've got thicker cylinder walls than the LS1 engine.
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grunter01Archived member
ok looks like there are alot of opinions in this thread about it all. I went all threw this last year and was building up a 408ci turbo for my vl. My opinion to doing it all now would be to get a standard rectangle port headed engine which comes in 3 types l76,l92,l98 they all come with the same heads. I choose these over the ls1 and ls2 as they come with the cathedral port heads which dont flow no where near as much as the rectangle ported style, even a unported l76,l92,98 head will flow more then the ported ls1,ls2 in most cases. As for all the ls based engines they all have the same weak point in the alloy block once they have alot of power put through them they crack between the cylinders. So to solve this problem look into getting a cast iron 6ltr block normally called a LQ9 block. These are exactly the same as the alloy block and still retain the 6 bolt main setup. This you can put over 1000rwhp into it everyday and dont have the problem of breaking it. A mate built his engine in his torana totally standard just forged and a cast iron block,glide,cam,gt42 and this has run a 9.6 on only 8psi of boost so far. So as you can see this setup works well and the engine its self is has a stock rectangle port top end.
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