Of course the reason for bringing up the Firebird in the first place is to point out a close cousin of the car the LT1 Firebird, sort of a bridge between the third generation and the LS1 fourth ...

Mike Whitehouse from G-FORCE Motorsports has a nasty '96 Impala SS (pictured above) with a GenIII - commonly referred to as the LS1 - installed in place of the stock GenII LT1. It's punched out to ...