<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by NJH3:
Hi, new to the board and planning to purchase a H3 in the summer. Does anyone know if there are any plans to offer a Chevy small block V8 in the 2007 model year?
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I doubt it. You run much more hp or torque, the H3's going to need substantially upgraded drivetrain components. A well built V8 will break anything less than one ton gear off road. The H3's weight, combined with locked diff and axles means that one tire and axle shaft would be subjected to the entire torque of the engine. They'd have to move the whole drivetrain from the H2 to the H3. Anything less than the 6.0 from the H2 wouldn't interest me. I'm sold on the current features of the H3. With it's awesome gear reduction, the engine available will pull it until it's so steep that only velcro will help. A great balance of horsepower and gearing is already engineered into the H3. You get more horsepower with the current drivetrain, you're going to be breaking stuff. It'll go faster but for me, and that's the important part of my statement, for me, that's not what I bought the H3 for. Considering the package, as a whole, as it was designed by Hummer, they must've thought the same way. They had other engines available, MANY others, and they chose the 3500. It works. It's not glitzy, it's not exciting, it's not fast, it works. Kinda like a hammer.
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