What do you not like about the LS?
They are more prolific than the original small block chevys and they seem to be showing up in everything because they are cheap power. I can appreciate the cheap and the power part, hell, I have a Suburban with one in it and I used to race chevys, but I just get tired of seeing them pop up in everything from street rods to late models and being emblazoned across the masthead of nearly every magazine as the end all-be all. FWIW, at the 50k mile mark, my late model Hemi in my truck feels stronger than the late model LS in my Suburban. Easy power is out there n other makes, it just costs more. Like ragtopdodge said, its stupid what we have to pay for power.
The irony of this build is they opt for the LS because it is cheap, easy power, but then they hack up an expensive car to use a cheap power source and say that the restrictive timeline is why they did what they did. Really? It just doesn't add up to me, especially since early in the build, there was consideration of using a retired Dodge Nascar motor. There is more going on behind the scenes than someone is admitting to, or the builder/owners are really that uneducated about the Mopar market and the E body segment specifically. I really wonder if this car isn't a rebody with a V code vin that the market has collectively shunned, in which case why not hack it up and piss off everybody who ever questioned it.
I'm really not opposed to wildly modified cars. I loved the Allan Johnson G Force Cuda, while most here did not. They kept the engine make to make which keeps the heart and soul of the car in alignment. Cross pollination of makes just doesn't feel right to me and that includes putting small block chevys into pre-war Fords as well. Just because its cheap and easy doesn't mean its right.
