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Originally Posted by ShnOmac
1) We need to find somebody that has dropped a LS7 in their Camaro and see what kind of numbers its putting out at the track (not the dyno).
2) The LS7 is a incredible engine but I wonder how much it would like the weight difference between the Z06 and a Camaro???? 3175lbs vs 3860.... big difference!
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I split your points, Mac...
1) Chev has had such a car since Fall '08...it was unveiled @ SEMA '08 as the LS7 "COPO" concept and, like the Leno TT-LLT unveiled @ SEMA '09, has been, to my knowledge, used for "static display", only. No known video or "driving impressions" from
any source for
either car... LPE unveiled a TT-LS7 @ Camaro5Fest II. Livernois apparently was involved in at least one LS7. And Thomson Automotive (
www.thomsonautomotive.com) has more than a little experience with GM/Chev/LS7, while packaging interesting LS engine combos including Mark Stielow's OPTIMA Challenge-winning '69 Camaro LS9 and the original LS7 Solstice...
I suspect the Camaro Team knows of the existance of at least one LS7 Camaro for "engineering purposes only", as well as the "angel-hair'd" COPO...
2) It wouldn't deliver, and I wouldn't expect, Z06-matching performance...but then, neither does the BOSS. The BOSS is close to the LS3-engined GS...which is some distance from a Z06. The ZL1 is "predicted" by some to be "Z06-like" in its final iteration...which leaves an awful lot of room between ZL1 and an LS3 SS...in PRICE and PERFORMANCE. Let's "close the gap"...just as the BOSS has done between the Shelby and the GT.
BTW, the power-to-weight ratio favors an LS7 3800 lb Camaro over an LS3 3300 lb GS...so all the hand-wringing over a GS being "matched" by a BOSS only adds credibility to the likelihood of a properly-executed LS7 "ZEE" thumping the BOSS...