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Originally Posted by Jyrine
Thats not bad....BUT!
Anyone have a link to the article about the current motor running in the LeMan's GT2 Corvette's?
Well if my memory serves, its running a (granted race spec only) 5.5L. Now thats all well and good but I remember them mentioning it was producing 440hp, and that it was the next gen engine.
They also mentioned the 6.2L would be returning... So I don't see a 5.0L making 467hp.....
That being said, we don't know what GM might pull off. And the motor I'm referring to might not be a DI motor....Maybe an inbetween...
I mean...If Ferrari can product 560hp from a 4.5L, and if McLaren can produce 612hp from a (TT) 3.8L .....Who's to say what is possible?  |
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Originally Posted by doc7000
The engine in the C6R is just that, the C6R engine and if regulations state for 2013 the engine size limit is 5.0L then it will be reduced further to 5.0L.
I have yet to read any mention from GM or a GM source that states there will be a 5.5L production engine.
At the same time, engines are tuned with a goal in mind and if 440BHP is the goal for a 5.5L engine that doesn't mean you can't make more from that engine.
Though I did read that the 6.2L engine size would return, though what engine sizes are produced from the factory for the 5th generation engine we won't know until they are produced. Though its 100% certain that the after market will produce 7.0L 5th generation engines....
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What you have to remember about that engine is that its restricted by the air box per rules to make it more competitive for everyone in the series. With a different manifold and air intake it may make more power. That engine is also a destroked 6.0L engine. A 4.00in(101.6mm) bore with about a 3.34inch(85mm) stroke if I were to guess