2009 Corvette SS

[Cole Trickle]

You don't think that Chevy is able to put lower compression pistions in an engine they are going to supercharge? What part of the engine would make it a bad choice to supercharge , the titanium rods, the titanium valves, or the dry sump? Sorry don't buy it. Even if you were to take a 70k Z06 and add all the supercharging goodies, that's still a 30K price increase!!!
BTW there are a number of 1000 hp plus ls7 off road cars running around.
Chevy is just trying to do this car on the cheap.
Darrell.
Honestly most of the 1000hp offroad cars are alot closer to 800hp
I have been playing with LSX based motors for too long to belive that a mendy robs 40% power. Truth is most of the big name companies over rate there stuff by quite a bit.
You have to have a big enough blower/turbos to support a big cube engine. honestly If I was going to build a new Z06 I would remove the motor (save it for later) and do a forged 346-408 with alot of boost. Plenty of cars making 800+ rwhp with the smaller cubes and a good twin turbo set up.
Not to mention GM won't put turbos on the car as they typically go the Eaton route(This thing needs to be reliable for 100K plus miles). I don't think Eaton "currently" has a twin screw that will make the same kind of power/flow as much air as a huge kenne belle,whipple.
If you do your research you will find that the fastest LSX based cars in the country have better luck with smaller cubes.
Pretty sure the LS7 is 100% hand built and has a price tag of around 15K+ by the time you upgraded the internals upgraded the fuel system and bolted on the blower you are talking about a 25-30K motor that would work just as good as a 15-20K motor.(Now your SS starts at 125K )
not to mention the new SS is a couple hundred pounds lighter and is made with more compo$ite materials.
Here is a link to the APS website(they build the nicest/most complete turbo kit avaliable)
http://www.airpowersystems.com/products_usa.html
There able to make more power (safely) with the LS2 than the LS7

[ck7684]

Oh...there's a Shelby GT in town here that they are advertising for $42K...black with silver stripes. Looks sweet...

[sanger rat]

Oh...there's a Shelby GT in town here that they are advertising for $42K...black with silver stripes. Looks sweet...
Same colors 45K in town.