GM LY7

"Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To" (murdersofa)
07/14/2015 at 12:11 • Filed to: None

Why was this engine not used in the Saturn Sky/Pontiac Solstice? The base model i4 is fucking gutless and this seems like it could easily have fit and 242hp and 232ft lb of torque would have been fantastic fun in a Sky/Solstice instead of the miserable 177hp and 173ft lb of torque in the base model, which uses a high-compression naturally-aspirated 2.5l LE5 that requires premium (!!!) and gets utter shit fuel economy. The LY7 gets better fuel economy in a goddamn Buick Rendezvous, imagine how it would do in the lithe little Sky!

Fuck’s sake, GM. Swing and a miss with anything not-Redline.

DISCUSSION (17)

ly2v8-Brian > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 12:15

Not a very large engine bay. Are you forgetting the turbo versions?

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > ly2v8-Brian
07/14/2015 at 12:18

anything not-Redline

And having looked around in the engine of my mom’s Sky, then looking around the engine bay of a Rendezvous... no. They could have fit the LY7 in there pretty easily.

Nobi > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 12:21

Because pre-bankruptcy GM.
Fun fact: the Redline/GXP got better MPG than the N/A versions did.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Nobi
07/14/2015 at 12:22

I’m really not surprised. I wish my mom could have waited a little longer to save up for a Redline but the PT Cruiser was quickly giving up the ghost and she wanted a Sky :/

HammerheadFistpunch > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 12:24

Just put an LS in it already.

TheD0k_2many toys 2little time > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 12:32

an engine would not have fixed a garbage GM product silly

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 12:43

Because the 2.0T is more powerful?

Sweet Trav > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 12:45

The high feature V6 is irrelevant. The 2.0t is a far superior engine and either it or the LT engine should replace it. You could kill off every V6 gm makes and nobody would miss it.

Nobi > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 13:27

She couldn’t have traded up? The Stage 2 kit that bumped it to ~320hp IIRC wasn’t too expensive either.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer
07/14/2015 at 14:05

I was referring to the base model.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Sweet Trav
07/14/2015 at 14:07

I was talking about the base model. Did you even read what I wrote? The 2.0t is a fine motor but the base NA engine is stupid, inefficient, and wasteful and would be better either not existing or replaced with a HF v6.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Nobi
07/14/2015 at 14:07

Bought used last year. Weren’t many options for cheap Sky’s, sadly.

Nobi > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 14:32

Gotcha. I thought you meant she bought it new.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 14:56

Sorry, missed that.

Kanaric > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/14/2015 at 15:53

Because you are talking about the base trim for people just wanting to commute around in a convertable. The Turbo version is a thing.

Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To > Kanaric
07/14/2015 at 16:12

Just seems like such a lackluster trim level for such a sporty-looking car never should have happened.

pip bip - choose Corrour > Jake - Has Bad Luck So You Don't Have To
07/15/2015 at 04:55

if you do it , replace the timing chains before fitting