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Thread: 1970 GTO Version 2.0
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03-11-2008 #21Originally Posted by andrewb70
My personal point of view is that the LSX motors are a generic GM motor. Heck at least it's GM, after seeing some guys throwing LSx motor in their Mustangs (nothing wrong with that, built Ford Tough with Chevy stuff).
Shoot that 502 would be considered more Chevy than anything else. But I recall, I don't know if you still can, you used to be able to get the 502 cast with Pontiac emblems in the heads and block. So what is it at that point? Chevy or Pontiac? Then don't even get started on the Canadian Pontiacs with their Chevy powerplants.
So in the end it doesn't matter. All know is that Andrew's Goat is gonna be Killer.
Shay
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03-11-2008 #22Registered User- Join Date
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LSx power would definitely be cool and probably be better in almost every way, but it definitely does matter to alot of people when you pop the hood and there is another LS motor sitting there instead of the big Pontiac motor that they were expecting to see.
Those ole big block chevy heads and valve covers with PONTIAC wrote on them was just another ploy by GM to try to qualify their Chevy motor for use in some kind of stock class. I thing Warren Johnson might have been involved in that. Still a chevy no matter how you slice it. And canadian Pontiacs, please, that is almost like AMC. Those cars are like a GTO and a Chevelle hitting head on at 100 mph and then trying to build a car out of the wreckage.
Okay Andrew, how about this. Make the LS a throttle body type fuel injection with a conventional 4 barrel intake and fuel rails. Tuck the coil packs out of the way somewhere and have a cool set of valve covers made that say PONTIAC on them. At least keep it a clean, old car look under the hood. Not the wire wod covered by plastic covers that most LS jobs end up looking like.
03-11-2008 #23