is an LS1 too much power ? Options

[got914?]

Anyone who has owned does own or driven an LS1 or similar power.
IM asking if this is too much power ?
Is traction too hard to acquire ?
I dont really want a burnout queen, if ya know what i mean

[ClayPerrine]

There is "No Replacement for Displacement."

During the development of the 917-30 motor, the German Porsche engineers often asked Mark Donohue if the motor finally had enough power. His tongue-in-cheek answer was "it will never have enough power until I can spin the wheels at the end of the straightaway in high gear."

The 917-30, SCCA bitched, was killing the Can-Am series. Mark Donohue disagreed. “We’re far from having too much horsepower,” he asserted. “My definition of too much horsepower is when all four wheels are spinning in every gear.”


I agree with Mark Donohue, you can never have too much horsepower. But you need a chassis and driver that can use that horsepower too. When I was in my 20s, I was a corner worker at an SCCA race at Green Valley raceway, near my home. Green valley was a drag strip with a road course spliced onto it. I watched a big block, full race Corvette trading the race lead with a Bugeye Sprite. The Corvette would come out of the last turn onto the 1/2 mile straight that was the drag strip, and accelerate hard for the hairpin turn at the other end. Behind him was the Bugeye. At the next lap the Bugeye was in front, but not by much. The Bugeye got passed on the straight. Next lap, the Bugeye came out of the last turn a little farther ahead of the Vette. This repeated lap after lap until the Bugeye was entering the hairpin before the Vette was able to clear the last turn. Before the race ended, the Bugeye had lapped the Vette. All because the Bugeye had a better chassis setup and a better driver.

It is your car, so build the one you want to drive. But it will be more fun if you add the handling and driver improvement too.