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[worked]

er it's a LS1 skin, it says right above the photos!!

[AJPS]

dont recall the twist?

whiteline bars are good for the money

excel g are fine for the money, but 8kg is pushing them a bit hard

[fantapants]

they are physically smaller than the uz in almost every way. The snout of the throttle body is about 50mm further forward, but the block itself is shorter.

the only place it loses out to the uz in size is the bell housing. The bell on the back of a ls is farking massive.

He looks to be running everything very forward to clear, BUT if you were willing to remake the firewal and snout of the tunnel as most are, it would be a better fit than the uz imo

and bare engines weigh the same or less than uz. T56 is a bit heavier than the common w though, but that weight is in the middle of the car and low, so not a bad place for it really....

ahhh the joys of unemplyment, soo much time to waste dreaming and researching

[nichy]

kyg agx was the plan.... depends what comes up. got 7 kg springs in the end as no 8kg in stock..... car is a road car now but its going in the shed as soon as i buy another car (no rush) and get some work done as the misses wants to learn to drift ha ha so gives me an excuse to spend money on it and get her to buy things too lol.

and i loved my car on bump stops too, my spine can take it........ for now haha

[worked]

so this research you undertook, did you find anyone that did ls1 to supra box conversions? are ls1s the same bolt patterns as the older chevs?

[fantapants]

no idea fella.

most of the research was in the vein of ls1 and fd matrimony.

would take a mteric fuckton of work to get a smaller bell in behind the ls though..... a mod of the firewal and tunnel would be wayyyyy easier.

and its not like you could ever pretend 5.7l was legal so keeping the t56 would be the best option i recon

[floody]

I reckon you can comfortably say a supra W-box would be a liability. R154 might hold up.

LSx makes lots of sense really, as you guys say you do have to be keen enough to raise the tunnel for the massively tall box and bellhousing. Still...Lets face it if you're sticking 5.7+ litres in a corolla legality is the least of your issues anyway, so hack at it.

[ae71]

a r154 would be fine behind a LS1.

but you wouldn't use one because the t56 is stronger and much cheaper, dollar for dollar they are pretty simerlar in price but when you factor in work, time and money adapting when these a better box ready to go it just wouldn't make any sense.

[ecko]

hmm 2011 is deff the year of the LSX another LS1 Ae71 is about to be built south of hobart

[floody]

Depends how much torque it makes, R154 is stronger than, say, a W58 but got nothing on a T56. Old man tried a R154 behind the RB in his VL turbo circuit car, lasted three outings at 280-320rwkw. Replaced with T56 which has been in for years since.