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The main thing with the coyote and why people use the ls motor more for transplants is not do to potential hp, its do to first cost and then packaging size, yes they weigh around the same but the dohc is very wide up top and that creates issues, and then you have the complexity between dohc and ohv that most people don't want to attempt , and gm did run a dohc v8 motor before the Northstar, it was the lt5 in the early 90s zr1 a very high tech but expensive option, and one thing to not lose sight on this comparison was they where not trying to build just a max hp build that would last a couple dyno pulls and be done, they wanted to build very stout but reliable motors that could be a daily driver for under 10k, and down the line they plan on to adding boost to both motors that when it could get interesting