Next Years Power Tour Car

[Mr70]

Awesome looking '57 Nomad Ken.

[VintageMusclecar]

What I wouldn't give to build a big block for that car for Ken....

[earntaz]

Another issue is the expiring availablity of stock BBC parts. Some places the only engines that are available are "crate" engines. I think that is the reason all these "Loose Stool" (LS), computer tuned engines are being installed. Its getting to be like a butt -- everyone has one ... how history repeats itself!

[Charley Lillard]

LOL....You think the use of LS engines is because of the lack of available big block parts ? This weekend the Wife and I will start driving my 953 hp pump gas LS engined Camaro from Denver to Kentucky via Oklahoma with the AC on and doing it on pump gas. That is why we use the "Loose Stool" engines. Kwhizz will be yanking the aluminum headed big block out of this Nomad and doing something similar to what I have but less hp. We like headache free driving and I have done the big block thing to death. No comparison from a guy that has done both. Drive a big hp LS engine for a month and try to go back to a big block.

[Mr70]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...We like headache free driving and I have done the big block thing to death.No comparison from a guy that has done both.Drive a big hp LS engine for a month and try to go back to a big block. </div></div>

We should all thank Charley &amp; Ken for offering us a chance to drive their LS cars for a month.

[Damien]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mr70</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">...We like headache free driving and I have done the big block thing to death.No comparison from a guy that has done both.Drive a big hp LS engine for a month and try to go back to a big block. </div></div>

We should all thank Charley &amp; Ken for offering us a chance to drive their LS cars for a month. </div></div>

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[kwhizz]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Charley Lillard</div><div class="ubbcode-body">LOL....You think the use of LS engines is because of the lack of available big block parts ? This weekend the Wife and I will start driving my 953 hp pump gas LS engined Camaro from Denver to Kentucky via Oklahoma with the AC on and doing it on pump gas. That is why we use the &quot;Loose Stool&quot; engines. Kwhizz will be yanking the aluminum headed big block out of this Nomad and doing something similar to what I have but less hp. We like headache free driving and I have done the big block thing to death. No comparison from a guy that has done both. Drive a big hp LS engine for a month and try to go back to a big block. </div></div>


Yep!!!!...............

[SuperNovaSS]

Not to mention, it you are worried about the supply of big block Chevy parts, it sounds like Charley and Ken are increasing the supply. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]

Jason

[PxTx]

A while back you weighed in on this Charley. It was then I realized, your recommendation comes from the wisdom of experiencing nearly every form of popular high hp mills (probably some more exotic ones too) in applications chasing the perfect balance of road and track performance. I will conceed the LS motors offer more reliability and performance than anything I could hope to create.

If only my ego could accept them. I see them everywhere. Every magazine, under the hood of my wife's Yukon, and all over popular forums and the summer cruise nights and at the drags. I just don't want one. They are visually unappealing and usually employ plastic covers to help offset that fact, and plastic covers in the engine bay of 1960's cars look out of place to me. I appreciate the mills done in more traditional ways and seek them out where ever I can.

I don't begrudge those who use them. Maybe one day I'll come around. If I do, it will be from the influence of guys like Ken and Charley.

[markinnaples]

I'd love to do an LS in an old school style like this one or one with a Roots-type blower.