This site is dedicated to the restoration and preservation of 1960's and '70's Musclecars. I will answer any and all questions about what is original, and what are "Period Correct" modifications. I will also post my personal opinion about what is and is not proper. People are encouraged to debate me or share their own opinions or experiences.
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
For the last time.....I don't hate LS motors,,,,I just don't think they should be put in stuff like a numbers-matching Judge!!!!
Some smart-ass sent me a snotty email yesterday challenging me to a race for pinks and spewing venom responding to a post I made in 2012. That's right-three years ago-I said I was sick of seeing people putting LS motors into stuff like a one of 1.286 1972 455HO Trans-Ams, or butchering a pristine, numbers matching, 4-speed, SS396 by swapping in an LS engine and an automatic. I said then-and I'll say it now-no one gives a shit if you want to stuff an LS engine into a beater '68 Tempest, or one of the 243,000 Camaros built in 1969. But don't do it to a one of 3,797 1970 GTO Judges ( I've seen this exact swap in a magazine!!!) or One of the 602 '67 Z/28's ever built. That's all I was saying. If you were a motorcycle enthusiast would you swap a fuel-injected Harley Twin-Cam engine out of a 2011 Softail into a '47 Panhead? Or a Fuelie Buell engine into a 1965 Sportster? Or a 4-cylinder Honda Hurricane sportbike motor into a pristine 1969 Honda CB750??? If you were a gun collector, would you put laser sights on a WWII vintage Colt .45?? If I can find one, I'll buy a 2004-2006 GTO and put a blower on it and run the crap out of it. But I WON"T buy a numbers-matching Tri-Power,389 4-speed '65 GTO and put the LS powertrain in it!!! That's all I was saying-so spare me the "I'll run you for pinks" with my LS monster shit. My buddy has a 9 second Nova ( with a traditional Rat Motor ) That I'll put up against anything. I don't care how fast you can make an LS motored car go-If you want one, do it-in one of the millions of '98 and later Camaros,Firebirds etc or at least one of the millions of beater '70-81 Camaros or Firebirds-just don't take a one of 943 SD-455 1974 Trans-Ams or one 2,000 1972 LT-1 Z/28's and do it. Are we clear on that, finally?? Mastermind
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