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Originally Posted by 389
I have a 69 el Camino SS396, it has a 1978 truck 454, Th400 2.73 rear end. It has about 10,000 miles on it. It blew the doors off my old 64 Pontiac 462 ported 6x, 041 cam. I was driving the Pontiac my brother was driving my el Camino..
Chevrolet is the king and always has been. Once I accepted this, I enjoyed my Pontiacs even more because I didn't have anything to prove.
I like how the cylinders on the Chevy are spaced evenly. The starter is on the passenger side to even out the weight.
Interesting note, The 68 to 72 el Camino has a massive frame its called the A.O. Smith #1942 the only other car or truck that uses this frame is the 69 to 72 Pontiac Grand Prix Model J..
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And by the same token I can tell you how my roller cammed 400 69 GTO blew off probably 10 BBCs on the street, it doesn't prove anything.
Just look at my signature picture of the 67 GTO stock car in the winners circle, where chevy powered cars are the norm. In 2 years I won 12 races with the GTO against mostly chevies. I guess if you think a chevy is unbeatable, then you'll get beaten.
BTW, the topic is LS engines, which aren't chevys, they're corporate GM engines. I know, because I own an 05 GTO with an LS2. I also own Straostreak powered Pontiacs. The power of an LS is very linear, not high torque like a Pontiac, which has an advantage at lower RPMs.
It's in the tuning and setup that makes one car faster than another. You can have 1000 HP and get beaten by something with lower HP if it won't transmit power to the ground efficiently. Unless you're comparing 2 engines on the same dyno, you won't get an accurate estimate of which produces the absolute top numbers.
Racing on clay gives you a completely different set of skills than running in a straight line on asphalt. And again "if your spinnin, you ain't winnin", so car setup plays a high percentage of which car wins, it's not all about the torque and HP of the engine.
