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Originally Posted by 71GreenJunk

The LS is the biggest pile of garbage on earth. GM engineering after the '80s became the dullest in all of the world without a single good product leaving a GM plant to this day. Ed Cole, Charles Kettering, etc are rolling around in their graves. The only reason I'm moving away from a small block is a 400 or 377 probably won't have the low speed tractability that a Hemi would have while giving the power I want. I could easily get 500+ from a 377 or 400 but at the price of raising the power band. IIRC, a 410ci sprint car engine makes around 900hp. A 6.4 will make about 500 and can still pull from the bottom. If I still had knees that'd let me have a Muncie M21 rather than an automatic I wouldn't worry about it but with an automatic I've got to use a tight converter. If I was going to just run a loose converter and forget hauling things I'd just junk the truck and build a car.
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Guess that’s why all the drag guys are buying junkyard 200,000 mile ls truck motors and slapping twins on them to the tune of 12-1500 hp on stock internals and heads while making them last for a long while. Yea sounds like garbage to me... guess that’s also why the ls has all the good aftermarket support to make them even better than they already are... Try building a ford mod or a HEMI for any where near as cheap and reliable as the ls are... I’m all about being original and if you desire to put a hemi in your truck I’d love to sit back and watch it come together, it sounds like a cool project and I respect that. However I wouldn’t be so quick to trash what is one of the best engine platforms ever engineered.