70454

Yeah..I agree.

timd38

The automotive LSA is the new Z28 engine.

Doing69

Another article.
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/898653.html

Kinda sad. The BB has a lot of history in the automotive world.

65 fi

Ron, so sorry to hear about the passing of your father.
Too bad those 150 employees are now out of work so close to Christmas. I sure hope that our political representatives and industrial leadership realizes that we need to focus on becoming a manufacturing nation again, put people back to work, establish new long term goals that give people optimism for the future and motivation in the present to want to achieve those goals.

Dans C6

Who cares.

Avispa

There was a link to this thread and to a thread in the C3 forums about the same article. The C3 guys reacted to the news as you might have expected: Damn, that's where my rat motor came from!

It wouldn't mean the same thing to the C6 crowd, for self-evident reasons.

All I have to say about the LSA is this:

http://www.worldcastings.com/product...e-engines.html

After 47 years the Mk IV design is still competitive, and that crate motor is a drop in for a C2 or C3. Old does not mean slow!

docmow

to dans c6 who cares well mabey layed off workers probely cares
mabey we dont care it dan c6 gets layed off how would we like ti if we got layed off i would like some one would

i kmow its not spelled or bad gramer but think about it it could be you

buffalo318

Record production of BB engines at the Tonawanda plant in a 24 hour period? 8800.

Corvette_Outlaw

Merc has already decided to go with the 502.......



http://www.brunswick.com/news/newsst.../2/1324095.php

z51vett

Boy what an uncaring sole you are. The whole automotive hobby is affected by this. Before long this bunch of Gov appoined asses are going to loose our auto industry like they did in the United Kingdom.
z51vett

peter pan

So will they keep them in inventory for the gear heads or is this the end of the line, what a bummer if it is

need-for-speed

We have enough hall monitors in the world. If you don't care, then don't click on it.

vettsplit 63

Sorry to see Tonawanda close. I can still remember the first time I looked under the hood of my L-78 425 H.P. Chevy and seeing the decal on the valve cover that said "Built by Chevrolet #1 Team- Tonawanda." Passing of another icon in Corvette history.

Zymurgy

So, you think you know enough about me to pass judgement? What about my posts makes you think that I am uncaring? I'm not the one who posted "Who cares?". I truly did not understand the point of the original post and why it was in the C6 General section. I was not aware that they produced the old Corvette big blocks. I do feel sorry for those that lost their jobs, not just those at this plant, but all those who have suffered in this economic downturn.

CMY SIX

probably more to do with NY's tax'es, and they will just shift production to another factory. NY"s doing the same thing CA is... driving all their industry out!

Restroom

I have no use for an L18, but makes me wonder where the ZZ* crate engines come from.

jschindler

This is my last boat that I sold about 10 years ago - it had twin HP500 (502 cubic inch, 500 hp) engines in it.

jschindler

I've been away from them for a while - but the article doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Does that mean they will be casting their own blocks? And what is it based on?

Corvette_Outlaw

I was wondering the same thing.....there is more info here.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eM7JFBUs8GA

BSE1956

Pity for the plant and pity for the Buffalo area. It's just another nail in the coffin for the already weakened New York State manufacturing sector. For those not from NY, Albany is chock full of low life thieves, ***** mongers and felons. See articles on three convicted NYS low life's below.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Bruno - convicted thief
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/ny...02emperor.html - Spitzer - ***** monger
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_c...am_monser.html - girlfriend beater/slasher

Apologies to the forum for the political ranting, but if these guys were just a little bit interested in doing the jobs they were elected/hired to do, then NY state might be in better shape.