Originally Posted by indiegeek

Oh I love the 4v motor. It has its quirks, which I believe were brought on by Fords shoddy designing (I've had every single "Odd" modular problem you've heard of, I've shot out sparkplugs, and I've had my oil filter shaft come "loose", only had the car for a year, to boot.)

But when it comes down to it, at least IMO, GM packaged more power, into a smaller package, with far, far, far cheaper modifications.

A camswap on our DOHC's is around 1500-2k just for the camshafts, one cam in the ole pushrod is of course a few hundred..

I love Cobras, but IMO it's like comparing a 300lb bodybuilder to a 140lb Bruce Lee in a fight.

While one is obviously going to be diesel as hell just by the magnitude of it, the other is equal or better based on simply technique and research.

GM did enormous amounts of SAE research into whether or not they should remain with pushrods, or of the benefit of switching over to OHC outweighed the pushrods.. And look what they came up with. 2006 they're still using pushrods, and look at the power.

My cobra will be turbo soon, I've gotten tired of the Vortech and want something a little more interesting, but I won't say that I wouldn't kill for a Turbo LS6.

You and I need to meet up some time, I'd really like to check out your turbo setup. I'm debating on ordering PTK hotparts, or having them custom fabbed. Hopefully someone in FL can fab them up.