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Originally Posted by Radcannon
trust me on the h/o v6 it is the direct injection and will be extremely close to 22 for the 3.6. Which i wouldnt be suprised the base V6 to even be cheaper.
As for ls3's there is some talk now about them coming out during the second year of production but i would highly doubt gm putting the ls2 in as of the production cost.
And corvette did not alwasy be on top remember the late 60's and 70's the camaro could walk all over the corvette except the special options which were still close. We also have to remember the z28 was a racing version built to compette in the low CID engines thus being a 302 and the SS's had the larger displacement more horsepower with the COPO's Corporate Office Production Orders being the top of the line. I wouldnt doubt to see some of those to compete with the GT500.
Also if GM is going to their heiratage which i see them doing we will most likely see an SS corvette since the first SS came from corvette although none were officially produced. And THE CORVETTE WILL ALWAYS BE A DIFFERENT CAR. Not just because of weight and styling and components but because of AERODYNAMICS. GM puts tons of money in asthetics and aerodynamics for the corvette while im leaning on mainly asthetics for teh camaro. And drag is a cubed function of acceleration and velocity i believe. That being said even if the camaro had the same engine as the vette which i could see the camaro would never be as fast as the Corvette simply because of aerodynamics. For example that means that at highspeeds the camaro could need anywhere close to double the horsepower to stay in competetion with the VETTE.
Sorry for the long post but a couple more notes. I wouldn't be suprised to see a S/C'd version although GM steers away from high rpm and f/i because after 6200 rpm wear increases substantially at a very suprising rate and f/i'd also incredibly increases wear especially with 10 psi or more. That being said GM does have prototypes of the corvette that is S/C'd and i belive the manifold is made in germany. I wouldnt be suprised to see a ZL1 with a S/C on it although not for a while.
As for the mention to direct injection V8's. NOT HAPPENING. When they come out which they will because of the improvements it will be cadillaic like th V6 now because of its luxury. GM has that reserved for the luxury models right now within 5-10 years maybe a different story but no time soon will we see a DI V8 also we will not see the DOD in the new camaro like expected that i believe has been phased out especially with the talks of the LS3.
NO REPLACEMENT FOR CUBIC DISPLACEMENT. End of story ricers are dumb.. They are good at what they do but they have horrible components that crap out to soon because of what they are trying to do.... They do not last when the are squeezed for horsepower and torque is non-existent.
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You sound very well informed, and your logic is quite reasonable. And I can confidently say that most of us agree with the majority of what you say. However, we can't accept your words as truth. Nothing personal. If you say that you know that what you claim is true, we know you are either not allowed to say that info or you are lying since its not likely that
anyone knows for sure what engines will be in the new camaro.
But still, welcome to the site. I look forward to hearing more of your insight and seeing how close you are when the specs are finally revealed