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Bad@ssCamaro · 01-07-2014, 11:01 PM

GM’s 7.0-liter LS7 engine, which was adapted from the LS7 used in the C6 Corvette Z06. The engine -- SAE-certified 505 horsepower (376 kW) and 481 lb-ft of torque (652 Nm) -- will be built by hand at the new Performance Build Center within GM’s Bowling Green assembly plant.

Here is the source:

http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/...iced_at_7.html

I guess there will be enough to fill orders for the new Z/28

also mentioned in Fbodfather's post about the pricing of the Z/28

LOWDOWN · 01-07-2014, 11:09 PM

Someone's off-camber, here. Reuss, in his video interview with Source Interlink/Motor Trend editors back in August, said the PBC in Wixom was extended to specifically build the Z/28 LS7s...

macalot · 01-08-2014, 09:12 AM

Bad@ss, I read the same thing and thought likewise.
Lowdown, you are right but that was in August...months ago.
Maybe they finally recognized the potential sales volume of the Z/28. At $75,000 they are making a good profit, or management would not have green lighted the price. Here's hoping they do assemble more than what they have said in the past.
In their previous statements I don't seem to see where they EVER said that the LS7 would not be built in Bowling Green.

LOWDOWN · 01-08-2014, 03:58 PM

Somewhere in here...about the 14:00 moment...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=dofT6IicUmQ

macalot · 01-08-2014, 08:37 PM

NHmmm, listening to that segment LowDown one will notice that he said something like Wixom will build the last of the LS7's.... in its CURRENT design/form. Maybe we'll see a next iteration of an LS7 in the 2015 Z/28's???

01-07-2014, 11:01 PM	#1
Bad@ssCamaro BeckyD Rocks :-) Drives: 2015 1SS/1LE Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: CT Posts: 5,778 View My Garage	LS7 to be produced at Bowling Green GM’s 7.0-liter LS7 engine, which was adapted from the LS7 used in the C6 Corvette Z06. The engine -- SAE-certified 505 horsepower (376 kW) and 481 lb-ft of torque (652 Nm) -- will be built by hand at the new Performance Build Center within GM’s Bowling Green assembly plant. Here is the source: http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/...iced_at_7.html I guess there will be enough to fill orders for the new Z/28 also mentioned in Fbodfather's post about the pricing of the Z/28 __________________ 2015 CRT 1SS/1LE RS/Recaro's/NPP/Nav/Rear vision pkg./BA speaker upgrade. Stage 3 BMR cam, ARH 1 7/8 headers, CAI, BMR 1.25 drop springs, JPSS Billet Bushings, Peddars Cradle Bushings...460 whp...so far....SOLD, but not forgotten! Last edited by Bad@ssCamaro; 01-07-2014 at 11:17 PM.

01-07-2014, 11:09 PM	#2
LOWDOWN Downright Upright Drives: Daily Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Cruisin'... Posts: 4,145	Someone's off-camber, here. Reuss, in his video interview with Source Interlink/Motor Trend editors back in August, said the PBC in Wixom was extended to specifically build the Z/28 LS7s...

01-08-2014, 09:12 AM	#3
macalot Drives: 1969 Z/28 + 2015 Z/28 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Pittsburgh Area, Pa Posts: 534	Bad@ss, I read the same thing and thought likewise. Lowdown, you are right but that was in August...months ago. Maybe they finally recognized the potential sales volume of the Z/28. At $75,000 they are making a good profit, or management would not have green lighted the price. Here's hoping they do assemble more than what they have said in the past. In their previous statements I don't seem to see where they EVER said that the LS7 would not be built in Bowling Green.

01-08-2014, 03:58 PM	#4
LOWDOWN Downright Upright Drives: Daily Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Cruisin'... Posts: 4,145	Somewhere in here...about the 14:00 moment... http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=dofT6IicUmQ

01-08-2014, 08:37 PM	#5
macalot Drives: 1969 Z/28 + 2015 Z/28 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Pittsburgh Area, Pa Posts: 534	NHmmm, listening to that segment LowDown one will notice that he said something like Wixom will build the last of the LS7's.... in its CURRENT design/form. Maybe we'll see a next iteration of an LS7 in the 2015 Z/28's???