Bad04OrngGT

Today I took a cruse down by the local car dealer. They had a 02 black SS, and a 01 Ws6..I know this is a mustang forum, BUT there is few lt1, ls1 ls2 owners on here.. Is there any diffrence in the too..which is better, the camaro ss has a few mods..it was the owners son he got a vette now..they want 27 for it and the Ta has 32k miles and they was 22 for it..Thinking about getting rid of the Gt and getting one..i love black cars ! I love the mustang but man them Ls1's are nice.. and the t tops would be nice in the summer! Thanks guys!

Matts00GT

The ls1 is better than the lt1. Those are dealer prices. You can get a much better deal from somewhere like ls1.com or ls1tech. I was thinking about getting one, but decided against a car payment.

JD1969

As far what is better it is all opinion, they are mechanicly the same car. The prices are way way too high though. You should be able to get a 01-02 with less than 40k miles on it for around $15,000. As was said above look on LS1tech.com, there are lots of good cars for sale. I'll you mine for $19,500 it has 70k on the body but I put a new engine and a whole bunch of mods in it this summer.

xxkazp3rxx

Agree with above... I almost got a T/A, but I didn't want to have the same interior as my gf's Grand Am, lol... Great engines though.. good luck...

Bad04OrngGT

I would love to be able to buy a car straight up but im goin to have to trade my gt in.

Matts00GT

If you have to trade it in, then don't do it. You will get raped on trade in esp since im guessing you are still paying for it, plus dealers mark those cars up far too high. Better off just supercharging your car.

Bad04OrngGT

Thats what I planned on doing.. I almost have the money, it just that you dont see alot of cars like that around here its a little town and not a very rich area..mostly steel mills and they are dying off slowly..So i dont know i just wonder what they had power wise.. I just want to be able to stomp the competition..lol Kb should do it for me I guess, change my mind everyday..lol thanks for the input

JD1969

Sell your car outright and then go through a credit union to finance the new car. You will end up paying way too much if finace it threough the dealer.

Lee Willis

Both were essentially the same car with the same engine and drivetrain, etc. just different styling, the big question is whether you like the styling of one better than the other. The WS6 is a bit over the top for some folks, but others love it.
In my opinon, the WS6 has a much more effective hood scoop than the SS. Open the hood of the SS and you will see that air enters the scoop, then travels back through a set of channels to the back of the hood and is led around and forward and into the air cleaner - the air has to t u r n a r o u n d and that will slow it down and the long pathway, right above the engine, will heat it up--bad things. By contrast, the WS6 has a big ram air opening right in front of the air cleaner, no changing direction, no heating. For that reason I imagine the WS6 has 5 more HP when its gets going. Incidently, we put an aftermarket ram-air hood on our 98 Z-28 that was very WS-6 like and it helped about .1 in the quarter (of course it was fiberglass instead of steel and cut weight but about 1%, too.

You didn't say how many miles on the SS, but asusming that is close, and styling preference aside, I'd lean toward the WS-6 because:
1) the difference in air intake mentioned above
2) the $5K price differential means you could buy a lot of mods yourself
3) the owner's son's mods may mean the SS was abused - I don't like to buy other peoples mods unless I know they did them well and didn't abuse the car.

Dan04COBRA

27k and you could have a low mileage 03 Cobra.