My search for a shorty D100 is over

But someone brought up LS..... I'm so sick and tired about "hail hail LS" it makes me sick
Well, you absolutely cannot deny the platform. Those heads really make those engines shine. But when you start seeing them in literally everything that really takes the imagination out. For one thing, they are the danged FUGLIEST engines ever made. So fugly in fact that companies make kits to disguise them as other, older engine platforms. I've never seen that with a small block Mopar, Ford or Chevy. They are all good lookin little engines. It's like, "hay Imma buildin this here super cool hot rod or rat rod with 10,000 man hours work in it with lots of imaginative innovations...just put a LS in it" ZERO imagination. There's gonna be some whole generations who've never heard of the Ford Flathead, 394 Olds, 331 Cadillac, early Hemis, Polys, the super cool early 60s GMC V6 engines. There's tons of things with imagination they could use, but they use an LS instead. Puke.