I don't consider a stall convertor a bolt-on. I don't consider a cam a bolt-on. I don't consider a 12 bolt Moser a bolt-on. I went and checked out LS1's top 100 to see what was getting these cars into the 11s and they all have more than bolt-ons. They either have nos, blowers, worked heads w/cam or some combination of those. You can do the same thing to the 5.0 and I'd have to say the 5.0 responses better to mods(bigger gains), stock. It starts out with real restrictive heads so basically any decent after market heads will show tremendous gains. There are 5.0s that are NA that run in the 11s. There is a guy on my route that has a 99 LS1 with all the 'bolt-ons' and he says he runs a high 12. He just got n2o so now he is expecting some 11s. His car sounds really mean. I can tell that my remarks are going to be unpopular and I'm open-minded.. if I see the evidence that I'm wrong then I'll change my mind. I'd love to debate this with someone but I refuse to get in an unproductive shouting match.
99gt has 260hp w/basic vortech blower it has 398hp, a gain of 138hp. 99 LS1 has an advertised 320hp w/basic vortech blower it has 418hp, a gain of 98hp. Which one do you think responses better to mods?
One thing that surprised me in reading the mods of the 11 sec LS1s was the fact that only one guy(that I saw) has an injector upgrade in his list.
As far as the original post, I don't think there is anything wrong with a friendly debate but you didn't seem to be looking for a debate
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BTW the first LS1 engine, I remember, came in the 97 vette.
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