650 hp
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Lately it's been if you have something stupid to say this is the right place. SAE certified tested engines that line up with the track performance and then some incompetent dyno pull that doesn't line up with the performance and some are actually foolish enough to believe it instead. Walt Disney is dead and we're all out of magic dust, consequently a 650 hp LT2 doesn't exist, come to grips.
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No... they weren't too dumb. They are fake news now and ran the story for clicks... look at all the chatter it's created. Next, they'll get another C8, fix the dyno but not tell you, dyno the car at a realistic power figure and then run a scathing scandalous article about how GM sent a 'factory ringer' out and then all the morons on the internet will say that the 2.8 0-60 and 11.1 1/4 were only because it was a factory ringer.... and clicks will be had... many many clicks.
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No... they weren't too dumb. They are fake news now and ran the story for clicks... look at all the chatter it's created. Next, they'll get another C8, fix the dyno but not tell you, dyno the car at a realistic power figure and then run a scathing scandalous article about how GM sent a 'factory ringer' out and then all the morons on the internet will say that the 2.8 0-60 and 11.1 1/4 were only because it was a factory ringer.... and clicks will be had... many many clicks.
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And how many of the blind sheep that swallowed their initial load of crap would view them foolish or say hmmmmm, why with a 150 hp discrepancy can a car produce the exact same 1/4 mile time AND trap speed? No, they would post some other illogical view instead.
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From: NOBROCOSOFLO
I am on GM Corvette Configurator, someone please advise on where I select the 650+HP engine, as I do not see the box,,, I was on the fence, but this additional HP pushed me over,,, can I get a discount if I buy three, or more??
Melting Slicks
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Its on the visualizer web site, not the configurator site.
It cleary reads the bottom of the page next to the asterisk ****.
" Red engine cover = 650HP
Silver engine cover = 600HP
stock black engine cover = 495HP
NPP exhaust + 5HP "
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"Two things are going to happen in the next 90 seconds" First half of you will kill yourselves with 650 horsepower and second if true hp, Chevy will dial back the real production hp so they have somewhere to go with later models. You have all been eating mushrooms!!!
Pro
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GM forgot to de-tune or locked the computer when they gave it to Motor Trend to test. The reality is the C8 showed the HP on the quarter mile runs. I would take quarter mile time over any dyno numbers.GM showed how we got robbed all these years in the exotic world.
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