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Tadge: "Hey guys, last year of the C7, let's blow $50 MILLION on it...you know, redesigning the A10 to fit and let's work on the LT1 for 40 more HP. We can do all that plus the validation for $50 million, right?"
All the rest of Team Corvette: "Cool, good idea. Tadge"
Mary Barra: "Tadge, we have a new position for you. We need you to re-engineer the brooms used in the Cadillac plant in China. The brooms they're using were designed for Bowling Green and the Cadillac plant is different."
Well, let’s see. This thread in C8 Gen has 53 Replies and 7010 views as of now. Rick’s same original thread in C7 Gen has 32 Replies and 2283 views as of now. So....
There are many who visit C8 Gen that don’t own a C7 thus have no interest in the C7 Gen section where Rick posted, even to lurk.
Very true that most of the action on this forum has shifted to the C8 section. I'm spending a lot less time in C7 now.
Tadge: "Hey guys, last year of the C7, let's blow $50 MILLION on it...you know, redesigning the A10 to fit and let's work on the LT1 for 40 more HP. We can do all that plus the validation for $50 million, right?"
All the rest of Team Corvette: "Cool, good idea. Tadge"
Mary Barra: "Tadge, we have a new position for you. We need you to re-engineer the brooms used in the Cadillac plant in China. The brooms they're using were designed for Bowling Green and the Cadillac plant is different."
They squeaked another 30 or so horsepower out of the gen II LT1 to make the LT4 for the last year of the C4. So that isn't out of the realm of possibility. But they also wanted to send off the SBC in a blaze of glory as well so there is that... They also only put the LT4 behind manuals so they didn't have to spend time tweaking the drivability of the bigger cam with an auto. The jump from 300 to 330 is a lat larger than 450 to 500 or so. You get to a point where it becomes less noticeable. For those you were talking a 10% increase in power. Here you are looking at about the same amount but when you reference that to the power curve it really isn't a huge gain...
The assumption that the C7 is in its last year has no basis in fact. Nobody at Corvette or GM has ever said any such thing.
In fact the idea is completely absurd: Corvette is going to roll the dice completely on a more expensive ME that has limited cargo space, no manual transmission and, so far as we can tell, is butt ugly. Why would Corvette do that when the FE can be refreshed, upgraded and built on the same line with the ME?
There has never been a market for an ME Corvette which is why one has never been built over all these decades. Meanwhile BGA has been vastly expanded and is currently underutilized. GM just closed several underutilized plants.
Bottom line: The C7 will be in production for several more years and with an upgrade to performance and refreshed styling. It will sell better than the ME.
They squeaked another 30 or so horsepower out of the gen II LT1 to make the LT4 for the last year of the C4. So that isn't out of the realm of possibility. But they also wanted to send off the SBC in a blaze of glory as well so there is that... They also only put the LT4 behind manuals so they didn't have to spend time tweaking the drivability of the bigger cam with an auto. The jump from 300 to 330 is a lat larger than 450 to 500 or so. You get to a point where it becomes less noticeable. For those you were talking a 10% increase in power. Here you are looking at about the same amount but when you reference that to the power curve it really isn't a huge gain...
They also went LS2 to LS3 in the C6, but C7 has had the same LT1 the whole run.
01-23-2019, 10:53 AM
