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Originally Posted by darcane
What's wrong with pushrods? GM has been getting great performance (power AND economy) out of their V8 engines with pushrods in a much more compact packge. Try comparing the Corvette's hood profile with the Mustang's and you will see one big advantage of not moving to DOHC.
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I agree. I was being partly facetious. The LS1 in our TA has no problems pushing the car to 30mpg highway and 13 seconds in the quarter mile.
OHC would be a slight boost to efficiency, but much harder to package.