To dragncar: Evidently you lack the basic ability to admit when you're wrong and then
you just resort to name calling. Your own criteria stated, once again, that "If any sbc crank will "lay down in the saddles" correctly it is a sbc." Since you knew that the SAE paper I quoted would very clearly show you that the crank dimensions (along with many other technical details) are entirely different from the sbc, you chose not to buy the paper and not to comment anymore about that point.
So, how's about this: Tell us exactly what criteria makes the LS1 a "small block chevy" engine. As an engineer, I would really like to hear your technical description of what items make the LS1 nothing more than a "small block chevy". I would also like to hear the exact technical criteria that made the original "Pontiac" engines so much more desireable and sought after and worthy of such worship. I am sure that all the engineers in Detroit are just waiting to hear how they should design the next V8 engine to bring back all the power, fuel economy, reliability and charisma of the great Pontiac engines. I am sure the engineers and designers of the LS1 will be completely humiliated. They will surely be ashamed when they hear how they absolutely missed such a golden opportunity to use the Pontiac motor as the design template when they began designing the LS1. Hell, they probably should have just saved GM a ton of money and scrapped the entire LS1 design program in favor of bringing back the so obviously superior, in every way, Pontiac V8.
Enlighten us, oh great captain of engine design. Oh, I'm sorry, I guess now I've called you a name. At least its not "tool".
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