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Originally Posted by pharmd
The real point of all this is that the vast majority of people are religating their car to a weekend (at best) car when you step to this level of performance. Sure there are case reports of folks daily driving their 600+rwhp car, but by and large it is and will not happen. People mod themselves out past the point of practicality. I encourage folks not to do this to their cars...from what I have seen across the boards the conservative consensus is 550rwhp is the max quasi safe level for stock short block LS3...I have nothing to back that up, that is just what I have heard quoted more than a few times. Their are exceptions to ever rule of course. JMHO.
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Your points are well made and you're giving sound advice, but I'm not sure if I agree with the statements about 600+rwhp cars. Back in the old days of hot-rodding, having over 600+rwhp meant you had a car on the ragged edge of being streetable, but that is not so much the case these days. My car makes over 650rwhp on pump gas in the configuration I drive it in every day. (3" upper pulley). The car sounds, drives and tracks just like it did when I drove it off the showroom floor. I pull down a combined city/highway mpg average of about 18mpg and on long hauls, I can see 22-23mpg. In fact, unless you knew what was under the hood, you'd be hard pressed to believe it makes the power it does. No lumpy idle, quiet exhaust, etc.
I believe the same will be true for the new Camaro, especially if you go the s/c route. I do know a lot of GM guys who stay n/a and go the H/C/I route to make power, however, and I agree that in those cases, you are giving up some street manners for the additional power.