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Originally Posted by LOWDOWN
When you "compress" anything...air, for instance...you also HEAT it. To dissipate the heat, you need increased/enhanced cooling, be it air-to-air, air-to-water, water-to-air etc. To increase cooling capacity, you need bigger/heavier/co$tlier cooling components...which add weight, and complexity, and expen$e.
There was a significant number of "Hoorays!!" when the ZL1 name was adopted, and the Z28 name was NOT. And (witness the Z28 Section's sustained postings) there was/is a sustained desire, unrequited, for a "true" _ / _ _ Something with a touch more "hot sauce" underhood than the SS/1LE...just like the Gen-1 _ / _ _ offered more than the "regular" SS.
"Light-as-likely", fully able to carve canyons with the very best 4-seaters out there...
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Great post there! I'm one of those that wants something closer to a "true" Z/28 and yes it needs more "hot sauce" under the hood than an LS3. I really don't think that Chevy will build a new, specific engine just for the Z/28 right now (though that could happen for a 6th gen but I think even that is unlikely), with that in mind I see the LS7 as the only logical remaining choice for a fifth gen. Z/28. Yes it's a 427 (albeit an SBC version), but given that there is no smaller displacement/higher revving engine currently available, I think it is the only choice. And so I continue to wait and see when a new Z/28 becomes reality, I do thinkl we'll see one eventually.
Clyde