Ls1 in a Mustang???

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Originally posted by Unit 5302
LOL, good lord srv1, you make a pretty bold statement here. LT-1, LS-1, whatever, it was good, lol, that's a riot. You're talking about 2 completely different engines. Since 1 was good (in your opinion), that the other one would be too?

The LS1 is unproven. If it follow suit with it's predecessor's, it will be dropping power fast at 100k. It's stock valvetrain is iffy, and with 10.5:1 compression, it's peak performance life would seem to be questionable.

Not to be rude, but I think you need to take another look at what you're saying. The cop cars get stringent maintenance, have few cold starts, and in the LS1's case is usually assigned to highway patrols which put TONs of very very easy highway cruisin miles on them. Jumping a car up to 80 or a 100mph every once and a while if needed isn't gonna do much. Being driven as a race car everywhere it goes will. Yeah, they get driven, sometimes hard. Do you really think it's harder than a kid beats on his old 5.0L that hasn't had an oil change in 10,000mi?

Call me silly, but I think this guy in question will be mentaining his car better than the 18y/o. Especially since he did all the work putting that motor in.