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I usually only post in the Mark VIII forum but when I was at SEMA I snapped a picture of this LS. It has a wide body kit and a vortech supercharged 4.6 4v aluminator engine. I thought it was pretty unique. What do you all think?

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Sorry I know I'm rather late with the picture post but it is my photo from SEMA lol. I wasn't aware that it was a repost. I was chatting with the guy at the booth who owned the car, he said while it made fantastic numbers on the dyno but the speed bug had bitten him hard and he was contemplating switching to a smaller sure-grip (cut) supercharger pulley and a bigger intercooler with a dual nozzle methanol injection kit or switching the entire setup to a twin turbo setup or a remote twin turbo setup. He also was shocked when I stopped dead in my tracks and said "OMG is that a Lincoln LS, with an aluminator motor?" The first thing he said in response was, thank god someone knows what it is! You have no idea how many people ask me why I put a big block in a Mitsubishi Diamante" I told him there's so much wrong with that statement. He was one of the most friendly people at the show. He was very informative.
 
I was just blown away by how helpful and kind the owner was and how unique the car was, frankly some of the guys at SEMA could get hit by a bus and I wouldn't feel bad for them.
 
I saw the car on the Hot Rod Power Tour, baddest LS ever. sounded great. I didn't know it was a SEMA car. Here's the only pic I got of it.
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Something tells me if ford was able to put the 4.6 engine in there from factory...the car might still be in production today.

baddest ls ever agreed. this and quik ls's are my top two favorites.
 
what gets me is how was the engine able to fit if even ford themselves couldint do it??

I see the hood has been expanded for more height.....then again this isnt a regular 4.6.
 
When Ford hired McLaren to prototype the 4.6 into the LS---they actually used a 5.0 variant---the only engine change necessary was to use a manifold they had specially cast from magnesium. Although it had equal flow characteristics, it had a lower profile to enable the use of the stock hood. I drove the car a few blocks after it was all put together.

KS
 
next person who refers to the ls as a Mitsubishi is gonna make me explode....lol
 
BlackLS06 said:
what gets me is how was the engine able to fit if even ford themselves couldint do it??
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As has been discussed previously, the problem is not that the 4.6L won't fit in the engine bay, it's that it has to be top-loaded into the bay. That's a non-starter on the assembly line.

If they could've made installation of the 4.6L work on the assembly line, it would have helped, but I doubt that it would have kept the LS alive--the sales projections they used as a basis for the development of the LS were simply unrealistically high. IIRC, if you take the LS's two highest sales-volume years combined, they don't equal the single-year break-even sales numbers they needed.
 
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