2008 6.2 with LSA crate motor?
07-03-2017, 10:30 AM
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2008 6.2 with LSA crate motor?
Just wondering, I'm sure some crazy person must have installed a GM crate LSA motor in a 2008 or later C6. Seems like a great way to bump up the performance of this car without making it difficult to find parts on a trip or worrying about untested weak links in the motor. Hoping this will work as opposed to adding an aftermarket supercharger or nitrous. Anybody have real life experience they want to share?
07-03-2017, 11:54 AM
#2
The LSA won't fit in the C6, because the balancer/main pulley assembly would hit the steering rack, due to their different accessory drive spacing. I'm also not sure if the LSA blower can fit under the C6 cowl and/or hood.
In any event, even if you could figure out how to reconfigure the drive system on the /LSA setup to make it work in a C6, you would still be adding a 1900cc blower to a car that already has a 6.2 motor that can handle more power than an LSA blower could produce, and for far less than the cost of that exercise, you could just add a superior 2300cc blower from Magnuson or Edelbrock that will make more power than you could ever generate with the LSA 1900 being fully ported, etc.
The reason the camaro guys are making decent power with those 1900 blowers is that they're porting them and spinning the crap out of them (well beyond the rated max rpm for a TVS rotor pack) with huge oversized lower pulleys that could never fit on a vette, and then end up having to use every trick in the book to control their IATs from going into the "Kelvin range".
That's the reason no one has done what you're suggesting.
Now if you can get an LS9 for cheap, that would work, but you're going to have to spend some dough to move some stuff around (alternator is on the opposite side, etc.) and you would need to change the hood, but it will fit.
In any event, even if you could figure out how to reconfigure the drive system on the /LSA setup to make it work in a C6, you would still be adding a 1900cc blower to a car that already has a 6.2 motor that can handle more power than an LSA blower could produce, and for far less than the cost of that exercise, you could just add a superior 2300cc blower from Magnuson or Edelbrock that will make more power than you could ever generate with the LSA 1900 being fully ported, etc.
The reason the camaro guys are making decent power with those 1900 blowers is that they're porting them and spinning the crap out of them (well beyond the rated max rpm for a TVS rotor pack) with huge oversized lower pulleys that could never fit on a vette, and then end up having to use every trick in the book to control their IATs from going into the "Kelvin range".
That's the reason no one has done what you're suggesting.
Now if you can get an LS9 for cheap, that would work, but you're going to have to spend some dough to move some stuff around (alternator is on the opposite side, etc.) and you would need to change the hood, but it will fit.
07-03-2017, 12:00 PM
#3
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Yep.
x2
The LSA won't fit in the C6, because the balancer/main pulley assembly would hit the steering rack, due to their different accessory drive spacing. I'm also not sure if the LSA blower can fit under the C6 cowl and/or hood.
In any event, even if you could figure out how to reconfigure the drive system on the /LSA setup to make it work in a C6, you would still be adding a 1900cc blower to a car that already has a 6.2 motor that can handle more power than an LSA blower could produce, and for far less than the cost of that exercise, you could just add a superior 2300cc blower from Magnuson or Edelbrock that will make more power than you could ever generate with the LSA 1900 being fully ported, etc.
The reason the camaro guys are making decent power with those 1900 blowers is that they're porting them and spinning the crap out of them (well beyond the rated max rpm for a TVS rotor pack) with huge oversized lower pulleys that could never fit on a vette, and then end up having to use every trick in the book to control their IATs from going into the "Kelvin range".
That's the reason no one has done what you're suggesting.
Now if you can get an LS9 for cheap, that would work, but you're going to have to spend some dough to move some stuff around (alternator is on the opposite side, etc.) and you would need to change the hood, but it will fit.
In any event, even if you could figure out how to reconfigure the drive system on the /LSA setup to make it work in a C6, you would still be adding a 1900cc blower to a car that already has a 6.2 motor that can handle more power than an LSA blower could produce, and for far less than the cost of that exercise, you could just add a superior 2300cc blower from Magnuson or Edelbrock that will make more power than you could ever generate with the LSA 1900 being fully ported, etc.
The reason the camaro guys are making decent power with those 1900 blowers is that they're porting them and spinning the crap out of them (well beyond the rated max rpm for a TVS rotor pack) with huge oversized lower pulleys that could never fit on a vette, and then end up having to use every trick in the book to control their IATs from going into the "Kelvin range".
That's the reason no one has done what you're suggesting.
Now if you can get an LS9 for cheap, that would work, but you're going to have to spend some dough to move some stuff around (alternator is on the opposite side, etc.) and you would need to change the hood, but it will fit.
07-03-2017, 12:21 PM
#4
Team Owner
^^^ Agree. 
This topic comes up periodically and the responses are the same. Here are a couple recent ones just for reading pleasure:
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This topic comes up periodically and the responses are the same. Here are a couple recent ones just for reading pleasure:
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...onversion.html
https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...questions.html