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Originally Posted by Muscle Master
This is great ... now we really can compete with the Germans and Italian's
But I have a gut feeling that the modding capability's are going to be tight
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Compete with the Germans and Italians? Why should GM degrade themselves? I'll take an LS3 over a BMW S65 (4L V8 for the M3) or an LS7 over any 500+ hp unit from Italy any day. Lighter, cheaper, more efficient, more torque, more durable. Sounds to me like GM kicks their ass already.
I don't understand why some are saying the engines will be maxed out. Until GM says they are going to be aiming for 100 hp/L with these engines, the potential will still be there. And I just don't see them doing that. They'll still be large displacement truck engines at heart. It won't be 500hp 3.9L DOHC VVT DI V8s with a 10k rpm redline (too much hyperbole? meh). They'll need to retain all their exisiting qualities. The ability to mod these engines is directly related to one of the other advantages to ths SBC: low cost. Cheapest way for an automaker to make an engine powerful is to make it large displacement. And GM will want these engines to be about as cheap as possible because they'll sell about a million of them each and every year. Saving a few hundred bucks per engine will be utterly massive to GM.