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Pascamp said
Honestly I would've liked to keep a Mopar engine in it, but I'm looking for 600hp naturally aspirated with daily driver reliability. I just can't justify $10K+ on a la/b/rb and hope I get lucky as far as longevity goes. Sure a gen2 hemi would be nice, but the prices are ridiculous. And as far as gen3's go... I have never has so many problems with any engine in my life.

I would love to put a 470 with trick flows in it, but I know that block will probably fail. Some people get lucky but I've seen it too many times with Mopar blocks over 600hp. Even with fancy main caps, girdles, and hard block it ends in tears often.

That was honestly my biggest reason for swapping my car to the LS platform. It's been a tube chassis car since the late 90s, and I realized that with engine plates I could drop in Anything I could imagine.

I love small and big block chryslers. I had a slant six in the car 20 years ago that ran 13.80s. I had a 360 in it that ran 11.90s.

My LS runs 10.80s, and I have a grand total of $2500 carb to pan. For me it was dollars and sense. And the idea of learning about a completely new engine platform. That was exciting and put the fun back into it.