Tails said:
My experience also. They ask, "what engine is that?". Well they are staring right at it. It says frickin' LS1 and 5.7 so I calmly say that it is the Vette engine and they then smile and nod their heads knowingly. Heck 6 months ago I would have been the same way.
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I could care less what engine is in there, what I care about are the output specs of the engine. It could say 5.67L, I really could care less.
But, the Corvette statment is valid, if you say this is the engine from a corvette, even people who aren't intimatly famliar with the details of the engine, they are still going to know, big HP, big Torque, light, refined, tested, reliable and best of all, performance befitting a Corvette. So I don't think it's so bad to make that reference.
The only reason I asked the original question was I was telling a co-worker today I had a GTO on order, and his response was "last of the chevy 350's huh"...not knowing the LS1 was actually a ground-up new motor, I was kind-of looking for confirmation of the statement he brought up.
I did, however make the original mistake of assuming the 5.7L must have been rooted upon a 350 motor of yesteryear and simply jumped to chevy 350, and goes from there.