New here, Entertaining idea of building 12v 3.0 3000gt

[RoadWarrior222]

Well we're about as open minded as the LS1 fans...
http://www.ls1.com/forums/f75/3000gt-stealth-44251/
Or the 3000GT/Stealth fans...
http://www.3si.org/forum/f1/ls1-swap-497507/

[Mdoe8]

Lol thanks for showing other haters. I suppose I'll stop updating this thread.

[Vigo]

Dont get all butt hurt about it. A sohc 3kgt only had a fairly tenuous connection to Turbo-Mopar.com to begin with, and now that it isnt a sohc 3.0 it has basically none. I think its cool that you updated just because its nice to get some closure on the 3.0 aspect of it, but if you cant take a little heat for doing a cross-manufacturer motor swap, you probably would be better off just not posting about it. It IS the internet.. and it could be a lot worse.

[RoadWarrior222]

Well yah turbo mopardom is so full of red headed stepchildren that it can be mistaken for the Weasley family reunion, but you took yours into surgery and came back with something akin to Michael Jackson, so any slight fondness for the red headed stepchild underdoggedness of the thing got thrown out with the bathwater and we come to "WTF is up with that nose???" etc


Though we grudgingly admire the tenacity to adhere to the principle espoused by Ernest Hemingway...

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”

[Ondonti]

VR440 was an interesting 3000gt that the owner put a 3 speed 927 (or whatever chrysler blah blah) with gear vendors to get 6 forward gears and then a 440 with centrifugal super charger. Stock rear end cause the 3/S rear end has....never broken from too much power.

Guy makes me grumpy because he doesn't update much at all except, "hey I made huge changes, better motor and a blower, its fun. Bye." Frustrating because the car must be a hoot. Guessing the owner has enough money that the car is not a big deal to him.


The ls1 thread is pretty epic on 3si but I would not go with an LS1 over a 6g7x. An iron bock large displacement LSX would be another story since it would actually be able to handle more power then an LSX and be more reliable since you wouldn't have to push it so hard.

Saw recently that Nelson's 3000gt is running 169mph (with automatic transmission to boot) on 25 pounds of boost and his nitrous failing to activate (I believe the setup is supposed to be good for 45-50psi and spray). Thats pretty much where the meanest LS1's are at full tilt thanks to that aluminum block.

[Sundance 6g72]

lol dont let the chevy guys hear you say that haha

[Vigo]

Yeah somebody made that point in one of those threads.. That if you want to make huge power you arent much if any better off with an LS motor than with a dohc 3.0 turbo. Not that im passing judgment on the LS swap decision, but doing it for 'power reasons' doesnt really hold up.

[Ondonti]

A true LSX motor made with catalog parts and big displacement (and iron block) is a superior platform in raw numbers but thats what happens when you get catalog parts.

[RoadWarrior222]

Or at least, that's what happens when you believe catalog numbers.

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Is it called ricer math when it's about an LSx though? Redneck math?

[Ondonti]

Well an lsx crate motor is terrible for the $ but so are most crate engines
I think you need to get your hands on a cheap block and heads and then build the rest yourself for it to make financial sense. Was looking at the junk email from jegs and the lsx454 is quite pricey and doesn't come with everything you need unless you get the carbed version which is race gas only. I think it was over 13,000 dollars :P
Now, if you are one of those people with friends who throw away nice engines then you are not me I remember the ex owner of a dyno I ran on put a ls7/trans combo into a WS6 and it ran decently. Now, if he paid what you and I would have to pay for those parts, it was a crazy bad idea.

[RoadWarrior222]

Need to find a rotary purist who buys up RX-7s and swaps them back