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No, the General Motors LS V8 is NOT a Copy of the Ford Windsor V8

Posted: May 31, 2019

Categories: tech, Fun Car Stuff

Tags: truck engines, small block chevy, racing, mustang, lava exhaust wrap, is engines, gm ls series, fuel line, ford windsor v8, exhaust wrap, exhaust header

Author: Patrick Hill

No, the General Motors LS V8 Engine Series is NOT a Copy of the Ford Windsor V8

The Chevy vs Ford debate goes back decades. It continues today just as it did during the Golden Age of muscle cars, covering everything from trucks and cars to engines and transmissions. This long-standing rivalry has inspired memes, window stickers, and countless comedy routines. In fact, some even have proclaimed that the LS V8 engine is just a copy of the Windsor.

Is this statement true? Is the GM LS series V8 just a copy of the Ford Windsor V8 engines? Or is the LS engine an original design that bears similarities due to common engineering

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Will a Turbo Four Cylinder Be Good in a Full Size Truck?

Posted: June 01, 2018

Categories: HP News

Tags: turbocharged, truck engines, gmc sierra, four cylinders, chevrolet silverado

Author: Patrick Hill

The tightening CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards enacted by the previous administration are finally hitting home, and have automakers looking at engine setups that normally wouldn’t be considered for trucks. After decades of being too shy to dance with the power making temptress known as boost (beyond anything that is diesel) American manufacturers have become rather smitten with using boost on normally anemic, small displacement engines to pump up their power numbers and make them usable in applications they normally wouldn’t, such as full size trucks.

Why? It used to be full size trucks and SUVs were exempt from CAFÉ standards, but that changed after a new mindset came in with the previous administration, and the immense popularity of trucks and SUVs garnered them much more attention from the pollution police. With the boom lowered, automakers looked to the first area that would help them improve fuel economy, weight. This was a major factor in F

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