LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

A good friend of ours in the Antigua we built a twin turbo LS1 for his 2004 corvette , called me last month and told me he had aquired a batboat and wanted to use his old engine we had in the shop so he proceeded to tell me he wanted it to be bad to the bone . We built this stroker combo with billet crank Carrillo rods JE pistons and ported and flowed the heads to be able to use the 1.8 ratio rockers with the big valve lift . We're awaiting a Fast EFI system to finish the tuning and I'll give you some numbers when we finish it.

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

here are some cylinder head pics of the ports and the components being used in the valvetrane

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

Since your using aluminum heads & block are you doing closed cooling?

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

yes it's a closed cooling system and the exhaust is custom by CMI it'll have circulating pump and raw water pump

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

Using a LS1 is something I've had in mind for quite some time. What's a engine like that running? I mean the cost for stock vs wild?

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

You can build one with some goodies like cam valves springs rockers forged pistons totaly balanced and blueprinted for around $8500 plus exhaust and cooling. And you can go crazy and spend $25,000 on big power big cubes but the factoy block will only take so much I've done some twin turbo strokers for some street guys here in town with the iron truck block and they hold up great.

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

now THIS is a cool as **** project, keep us informed.

Jim

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

what would you use for exhaust???

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

CMI is making some headers for it

Re: LS 1 BATBOAT PROJECT by Mesa
 

Here is a company in New Zeland that has marine manifolds for the LS1.http://www.waspaust.co.nz/Chev6.htm