'88 T-Bird 4.6 DOHC swap.
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Prove me wrong with factual, verified information.
I've heard some pretty dumb shiznit about it too, everything from Mustang fools who say that Ford designed it, so that's reason enough to put it into a Mustang, up to the line that GM paid so much money to Ford for it, that GM ended up needing the bailouts while Ford was making serious bank.
It's all shiznite. It's a GM design, through and through. Yes, they likely had some Ford engines to poke around on while doodling on paper, but I can also assure you that the LS has a deep skirt block and other things not on a Windsor engine, or even on any one Ford engine in particular, at that.
Yes, there's only so much "new" once can dig up in a pushrod V8...pretty soon it's like a Glock....sooner or later, someone else will come up with a similar style, and then the nutswingers on both sides will call foul, ripped off idea, or claim that someone else copied a previous design.
Again, show me the proof....
Just so you know, I've read the drama from both GM and Ford boards, I was intrigued, so I dug a lot deeper, and found jack shiznit to prove that the LS is an out and out copy of any one engine design. Unless you count the number of cylinders, valves, heads, and spark plugs.
I've been incorrect before...I can handle being incorrect again. But I'll wager a 20 dollar bill I'm not wrong this time.