Cam help
12-01-2021, 07:14 AM
#31
The truck has a 3.42 gear ratio according to the window sticker which surprises me because my 04 3/4 ton 6.0 4l80e I believe has a 4.10 and this half ton moves out better with the 4.8 not a crazy weight difference being my 3/4 ton is a single cab long bed with smaller tires
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12-01-2021, 07:51 AM
#32
You might be old but you're not a boomer.
My buddy races dirt track, and his dad and all his dad's friends used to race dirt track. They laughed at me when I built my 6.0 saying how they could build a "stout" 350 SBC with a carb that would walk all over it
... They're great guys, but they are stuck in the 80s.
This is who I refer to when I say boomer, its more of a state of mind
My buddy races dirt track, and his dad and all his dad's friends used to race dirt track. They laughed at me when I built my 6.0 saying how they could build a "stout" 350 SBC with a carb that would walk all over it
... They're great guys, but they are stuck in the 80s.This is who I refer to when I say boomer, its more of a state of mind
Some quotes from him:
"Polished primaries beat long tubes and are cheaper"
"I can make more power without a blower"
"Glass packs are the absolute best muffler out there"
"1 3/4 exhaust will flow everything I need"
"It makes so much power it throws the belt when it shifts"
He had some funky/special worked over "Corvette" 327 in a single headlight Bel Air. I don't remember any details, but knowing him- it was all BS anyway. I thought the car looked and sounded great, but one day we raced and my 4cyl Saturn that was a total junkyard build smoked him. He never really talked to me again after that aha
Oh! : I rode a 2001 SV650 at the time and this guy had a 99 Big Dog (circa 2008) and he was talking all kinds of trash about import bikes and how unreliable they were and slow and yada yada. So in the course of chatting he let it slip that his bike was in pieces because it broke something in the primary drive. My bike had just over 30k on it at the time, that Big Dog had a little under 5k he told me
I love me some boomer
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12-01-2021, 09:53 AM
#33
The truck has a 3.42 gear ratio according to the window sticker which surprises me because my 04 3/4 ton 6.0 4l80e I believe has a 4.10 and this half ton moves out better with the 4.8 not a crazy weight difference being my 3/4 ton is a single cab long bed with smaller tires
12-01-2021, 10:21 AM
#34
I can understand their train of thought. The SBC has over 6 decades of great racing heritage from NHRA to NASCAR. Seeing the two engine blocks side by side it's easy to see the LS is the better platform.
You can build SBC horsepower on the cheap because of the saturation of aftermarket parts available but it's not going to be as reliable as the LS design. I'd say in ten or so years we'll see LS aftermarket parts overtake SBC in sales. SBC builds will be more restoration than hotroding. It's getting harder and harder to find a good 010 4 bolt main SBC block everyday.
You can build SBC horsepower on the cheap because of the saturation of aftermarket parts available but it's not going to be as reliable as the LS design. I'd say in ten or so years we'll see LS aftermarket parts overtake SBC in sales. SBC builds will be more restoration than hotroding. It's getting harder and harder to find a good 010 4 bolt main SBC block everyday.
Comparing a new build LS vs a new build SBC, for a late model vehicle, it just doesn't make sense.
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