Everything I'm about to say is in referance to the 1998-2002 Camaro's so bear with me 
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Personally, I'm one of "those people" who think the SS will be the Top dog...but I'm also a traitor to "those people" cause I
really don't believe they'll put 550hp into a main-stream Camaro. Maybe into an IROC, Yenko, or some other special edition Camaro. I think it'll differ like the last 4th gens did, by a small number of horses...maybe in this generation ~50-75.
Mindz, I think you might have the LS3 and the LS7 mixed up about their compression. It was the LS7 that wasn't a good idea to pop FI onto it. The LS3, last time I heard, was designed with thicker Cyllinder walls, so as to withstand extra boost, and power...
The LS9 is just a Supercharged LS3 with strengthened innards. In essence it's the same engine, but really it's not - so they named it differently. I've also heard it called LSA
(don't know about that one)
Scott Settlemire has said that the LS2 will not be going into the Camaro. And if you think about it, he didn't even need to tell us: There's no GTO (anymore), The Vette get's the LS3, so what is the LS2 supposed to go into? Is GM gonna skip a model year and then pop it back into the Camaro? I don't think so.
And I like that about the Top-Dog being a Z28 OR an SS. It's true, nobody knows. In fact - Nobody even knows if they are going to offer either, let alone both.
Oh....and I found this...
http://www.autoblog.com/2007/05/15/a...tible-concept/
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...Both Smith and Jones have said they are fighting to keep the production car true to the concept. Even better, they alluded to modifications that they say "could make the car even better." Everyone we talked to also spoke of working with the accessories department and promising great aftermarket stuff. The coupe arrives in 2009, the convertible "within a year after that."...
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