[ZR1] Watch Builders Hand Craft the LS9 Corvette ZR1 Engine
12-30-2015, 12:47 PM
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Watch Builders Hand Craft the LS9 Corvette ZR1 Engine
Here's an up-close-and-personal look at a master-builder hand assembling a Corvette ZR1 engine at the Wixom Performance Build Center in Michigan.
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12-30-2015, 12:58 PM
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Here's an up-close-and-personal look at a master-builder hand assembling a Corvette ZR1 engine at the Wixom Performance Build Center in Michigan.
Read the rest on the SITE homepage. >>
12-30-2015, 07:11 PM
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01-01-2016, 05:55 PM
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But have you seen that show "How They're Made: Dream Cars". If not, they go into the high end car factories and show cars (including C7's) being built from first steps to completion. The countless robotics and portable automated hand guided set-ups. They must have perfected the stuff critical to starting a bolt (location, initial speed, etc) otherwise I guess we would hear about a lot of problems.
I don't know..just an observation, never built a Vette motor but a bunch of small to mid displacement stuff so I can appreciate what you indicate.
01-02-2016, 01:31 PM
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Thought the same and certainly seems the wrong thing to do. And the lack of assy lube as the other post stated.
But have you seen that show "How They're Made: Dream Cars". If not, they go into the high end car factories and show cars (including C7's) being built from first steps to completion. The countless robotics and portable automated hand guided set-ups. They must have perfected the stuff critical to starting a bolt (location, initial speed, etc) otherwise I guess we would hear about a lot of problems.
I don't know..just an observation, never built a Vette motor but a bunch of small to mid displacement stuff so I can appreciate what you indicate.
But have you seen that show "How They're Made: Dream Cars". If not, they go into the high end car factories and show cars (including C7's) being built from first steps to completion. The countless robotics and portable automated hand guided set-ups. They must have perfected the stuff critical to starting a bolt (location, initial speed, etc) otherwise I guess we would hear about a lot of problems.
I don't know..just an observation, never built a Vette motor but a bunch of small to mid displacement stuff so I can appreciate what you indicate.
OMG OMG
01-05-2016, 07:49 PM
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This particular video skips most of the prep where assembly lube is used and if you notice the automatic tool that does the torquing of the bolts does a full turn and a half backwards to start the threads properly before turning to the right to tighten and torque the bolts. You need to do a search for the full build process to see assembly lube being added. Besides ALL of these engines are pressure primed before test firing on propane. You didn't think a $20,000 dollar engine would be put together without proper lubrication did you?
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