Trigger Warning: This is an engine swap question and while I am speaking hypothetically, it may offend purists.
As I waiver between what I will or wont do to my FJ40, I keep running across the new LV3 engine. Unlike the LSx engines, GM actually made a Gen 5 V6. I know GM V6s have been very popular in short wheel base rigs for years but they were always old tech with new electronics. The stats on this engine are 285 hp/ 305lb-ft with great fuel economy and it is two cyl shorter than a V8 which is huge as I look at stack up length and rear drive shaft angles (before people start telling me to just put an LS motor in it).
I have found a few threads of people talking about this motor. A couple guys started projects on LS1tech
LSX based v6? Yes please!
New Gen V project... - LS1TECH
Does anyone have any information on this engine? The motors themselves are out there out of low miles wrecked trucks. Any where I could get one converted to stand alone with all the extra stuff eliminated? (no emissions in my state past 25 years old) I have reached out to a few shops who are doing Gen 5 stuff and have found no one supporting this. Any major reasons why this couldn't be done? I think it would have a huge market in both small cars and short wheel base 4X4s.
As I waiver between what I will or wont do to my FJ40, I keep running across the new LV3 engine. Unlike the LSx engines, GM actually made a Gen 5 V6. I know GM V6s have been very popular in short wheel base rigs for years but they were always old tech with new electronics. The stats on this engine are 285 hp/ 305lb-ft with great fuel economy and it is two cyl shorter than a V8 which is huge as I look at stack up length and rear drive shaft angles (before people start telling me to just put an LS motor in it).
I have found a few threads of people talking about this motor. A couple guys started projects on LS1tech
LSX based v6? Yes please!
New Gen V project... - LS1TECH
Does anyone have any information on this engine? The motors themselves are out there out of low miles wrecked trucks. Any where I could get one converted to stand alone with all the extra stuff eliminated? (no emissions in my state past 25 years old) I have reached out to a few shops who are doing Gen 5 stuff and have found no one supporting this. Any major reasons why this couldn't be done? I think it would have a huge market in both small cars and short wheel base 4X4s.
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