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Old 11-11-2015, 11:10 PM
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Please, lets make this happen....how can GM not drop a Mercury Marine produced LS based engine in the new Mid Engine ZR-1. GM lets make this happen! This would be awesome!

http://www.enginelabs.com/news/mercu...for-ls-engine/
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Old 11-12-2015, 07:24 AM
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Hopefully by now everyone realizes why I won't even put this up for vote to send. Tadge can't talk about any sort of potential future product.
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Sorry,More of a grass roots suggestion box idea
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I am pretty sure that if they made one, they would not need Mercury Marine to produce an engine for them this time.
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Same question that I asked in Paul's thread that was never answered;

What are we "missing" in today's product, that a 6.2L DOHC engine would provide?

In 1989, it was painfully obvious what was missing -power. Today? Not so much.

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I think if they did some variation here, it's going to be smaller in displacement than that. I don't see GM going the V6 route necessarily, but I think a smaller displacement V8, multicammer is certainly possible. Short stroke/big bore 3.5-4 liter with some electric assist for torque fill...OHHHH yeah, I'll take it.
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Oh lgaff... You diehard... Seriously though - anyone who hasn't driven a C4 ZR-1 needs to drive one just to hear that engine at full 7500+ RPM song. After the Callaway's paid off, I will have another.
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Originally Posted by djpatrick35
Oh lgaff... You diehard... Seriously though - anyone who hasn't driven a C4 ZR-1 needs to drive one just to hear that engine at full 7500+ RPM song. After the Callaway's paid off, I will have another.
I seriously wonder where the engine would be made.
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Originally Posted by djpatrick35
Oh lgaff... You diehard... Seriously though - anyone who hasn't driven a C4 ZR-1 needs to drive one just to hear that engine at full 7500+ RPM song. After the Callaway's paid off, I will have another.
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