Mid Engine LS9 = C7 Prototype?
Racer
Joined: Apr 2008
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From: Michigan
my guess is it's a kit car... maybe something like the Factory 5 racing stuff:
Obviously the one in the OP is some other model, but you get the idea. There's tons of kit cars out there and small block Chevy's are the common engine to put in them.
The Vette won't go mid engine until it makes sense from a performance AND cost standpoint. If the Corvette team can get better performance from something at a reasonable cost, they'll do it. If it costs too much money or negatively affects the car in some way (makes it less livable, practical, fuel efficient) that they feel is just not worth the gains, it doesn't get done. When mid engine makes sense we'll have it
Obviously the one in the OP is some other model, but you get the idea. There's tons of kit cars out there and small block Chevy's are the common engine to put in them.
The Vette won't go mid engine until it makes sense from a performance AND cost standpoint. If the Corvette team can get better performance from something at a reasonable cost, they'll do it. If it costs too much money or negatively affects the car in some way (makes it less livable, practical, fuel efficient) that they feel is just not worth the gains, it doesn't get done. When mid engine makes sense we'll have it
Last edited by Kozzzz; Dec 12, 2009 at 03:45 PM.
3rd Gear
Joined: Feb 2010
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The problem with AFM and the Y-car platform is that to control some of the unpleasing dynamics that occur at the transistion between 8-cyl and 4-cyl operation, to date, has required adding some high-mass damping devices to the car. GM has been studying AFM on the Corvette for a number of years and, to date, has decided it can't add AFM to Corvette's current architecture without putting a bunch of new mass into the car...something Tom Wallance and Sam Winegarden have deciced not to do.
The idea that AFM can't be used on a vehicle with a driveshaft doesn't make sense as GM has the system on full-sized trucks. That said, it might be that a full-size truck can "live" with the mass of a damping system because it's a much smaller percentage of the total vehicle weight.
As for the 3.6 DI V6, there is currently no turbocharged version of that engine. Right now it's a 303-hp NA engine. If it was to go to a turbo, 350-hp is conceivable but....
More likely to be in a redesigned C7 is a V8 of between 5.0 and 5.5-liters with AFM and direct injection.
Meeting the mid-next-decade CAFE will be tough but the issue that everyone at GM Powertrain is really afraid of is direct regulation of CO2 emissions over and above the new CAFE. If that happens, then we need to think about V6es in a rebadged Solstice as the Corvette of the "late-twenty-teens".
Bottom line, if you desire a 505-hp or a 632-hp Vette the next two years, now is the time to buy.
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van rental new york
The idea that AFM can't be used on a vehicle with a driveshaft doesn't make sense as GM has the system on full-sized trucks. That said, it might be that a full-size truck can "live" with the mass of a damping system because it's a much smaller percentage of the total vehicle weight.
As for the 3.6 DI V6, there is currently no turbocharged version of that engine. Right now it's a 303-hp NA engine. If it was to go to a turbo, 350-hp is conceivable but....
More likely to be in a redesigned C7 is a V8 of between 5.0 and 5.5-liters with AFM and direct injection.
Meeting the mid-next-decade CAFE will be tough but the issue that everyone at GM Powertrain is really afraid of is direct regulation of CO2 emissions over and above the new CAFE. If that happens, then we need to think about V6es in a rebadged Solstice as the Corvette of the "late-twenty-teens".
Bottom line, if you desire a 505-hp or a 632-hp Vette the next two years, now is the time to buy.
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nolvadex
van rental new york
