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Noobz347 said:

^this^

Four Eye enthusiasts tend to also be purists. I for one would cringe at the site a 4 eye ruined with an swap for any motor other than a Windsor or Ford turbo 4.

Just because you CAN do a thing, doesn't mean that you SHOULD do a thing. You wanna put a fukin LS into something then put it into something else. There are plenty of relatively light weight, unibody, bow ties to stuff an LS into.

I consider FEP to be one of the few true enthusiast sites left on the web.

We live in an age of, "slap it together and make it go fast". That doesn't make someone and enthusiast. It just makes them another shade tree boy racer who was lured by the thought of a cheap ride. Go on with your bad self if that's what makes you happy. You can't really knock a site wants Ford Power inside of a Ford. You also can't knock a site infused with a group of folks who are interested in making that Ford scream down the road by building up what originally came with the car.

There are those that have more interest beyond just converting gas to noise.

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You go Noobz.

I'll say this about that.
If there were so many relatively light weight unibody Bow ties as potential recipients for an LS transplant, then you wouldn't be on your soap box.
Fact is There ain't any.
Name me one "relatively lightweight unibody Bowtie" that can be had as easily as a fox notch that even comes close and you get a cookie.

Camaro/FB? Forgetaboutit.Those cars still weigh over 3200 lbs after you stripped every last nut and bolt out of it that wasn't holding the drivetrain in.
Malibu? As long as you have Harwoods' number, and last made when exactly?........uhh 1982?
Post 75 Nova? See above.
Pre 75 Nova? Yeah,...you see those things almost everyday, And they're SOOO cheap.

The simple fact that there are so many bastardizations of our beloved blue oval is because Chevrolet hasn't made a "relatively lightweight unibody car" since the last whimper was made by a 1977 Monza. Ever since then, mid 70's camaro have been gaining weight faster than a fat chick workin' at Dunkin Donuts. That last gen Camaro ('00) was so portly, you could gut it, replace the hood, and doors w/ fiberglass pieces, and change out all of the glass w/ lexan, and that pig would still weigh more than a notch sitting in the parking lot w/ every piece of factory installed stuff still on it.

The only reason Chevy boys weren't doing it before the fox came along was because they had a car before that to use.
When all we had was a stock headed Windsor to work with, It used to be us that worked w/ what we had to make a Ford fast.

Now the shoes on the other foot somewhat, and in order to make their Chevy fast requires they ditch the anchor the engine came in.

It's all relatively straight logic as far as I see it. Most of the LS into fox body swaps happen now a days in pursuit of building a faster drag car. I see the whole damn drag car as a bastardization of the brand anyway, so what the hell difference does it make whether the block has GM stamped on the side, or DART?