"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
07/22/2019 at 10:47 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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What was GT2 and is now LMGTE, mandates 5.5 liters n/a or 4 liters boosted maximums. Of course there’s no maths for valves per cylinder and spy movies hear snail noises. So what does GM have to build a 4valve turbo motor upon? (The following is my wild speculation pointing at my good or awful Google Fu skills)
Lets begin with a Caddy 4.2 tt v8. I think they destroked it and boosted to Ferrari 488 power levels. That’s what I believe is plumbed into it. An engine from the caddy now run by an ex BMW head. Hmm...with all that golf club trunk space for turbines and intercoolers and secret sauce.
They could have run a stroker v6 based off an indycar, or their own high value 3.9 stuff but a turbo 6 Vette would be more sacriligeous than the Ford GT doing so and not sell anything. So look for a ttv8 street car running 650+ hp coming soon for the 2020 race season.
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> Grindintosecond
07/22/2019 at 11:06 |
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The real question is - are they going to try to bump the Corvette up in the the new LeMans Hypercar class? I think it’s a very real possibility.
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Grindintosecond
> UserNotFound
07/22/2019 at 12:03 |
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I think both are possible. Take Porsches page and make customer production for the cheaper classes then muscle it all out for the big class.
just-a-scratch
> UserNotFound
07/22/2019 at 12:18 |
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I think it would be difficult to make this car competitive in hypercar. The 2294 lbm minimum weight is too far from the weight of the Corvette. The addition of safety equipment mandated for racing (not integral to the chassis as I expect for hypercars) will make hypercar typical weight and CG more difficult.
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> just-a-scratch
07/22/2019 at 12:32 |
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That’s a good point, 1klb is a lot of weight to lose from a car they’ve already claimed to have done a lot to reduce the weight of.