Quote Originally Posted by Innuendo View Post
I mention it Byron because it's fun to rev you up! Your a hair splitter and the general consensus it that they are in fact Chev engines (right or wrong).
It's just like you bang on about Statesman's not being a Holden etc. If you use a search engine you will find the Gen III LS engine and Chev as one in the same.
It matters not, I just find it funny you need to mention that YOU know it's not a Chev....
Fair enough, but remember when you are researching this stuff for publication (not that i'm researching LS engines) you have to work in facts not rumour or perceived facts, hence why I regularly use proper information as the manufacturer intended, not what Joe public incorrectly uses. If you werw writing a book on Colas you wouldn't call all Colas Coke? You might at the pub when you asked for a Scotch and Coke, when you really wanted a Scotch and Cola. The fact remains though that an LS1 is not a Chevrolet engine, it is a GM engine. Chevrolet ceased engine production way before the LS engines were first used in production cars. It was used in Chevrolet branded cars, Holden branded cars, Pontiac branded cars etc etc. Anyone can call an LS engine a Chev engine if they want, just as I could put it in a Monaro and call it a Holden or Pontiac engine, i'd be just as correct!
It is also very clear that a Statesman isn't a Holden, it was never intended to be, just another fact lost in people's perceptions.