Pornographic warning..... Sexy LS inside

[crafty]

A photo taken by someone on Power Tour

Now THAT is a sexy engine!

[GTWayne]

Indeed Grant, that motor does have a certain appeal but what is the point of trying to shed weight by the copious use of CF only to affix 2 X coil packs the size of garden sheds to the front of the motor?

[Boosted LS1]

Think I've seen those plenums in Oz before now.

Boosted.

[TuxMan]

oooooooooooo how nice would that fit in a Can-am

[crafty]

GTWayne said:

Indeed Grant, that motor does have a certain appeal but what is the point of trying to shed weight by the copious use of CF only to affix 2 X coil packs the size of garden sheds to the front of the motor?

Display motor.... coil packs go on the inner guards or firewall....

[ezakimak]

Boosted LS1 said:

Think I've seen those plenums in Oz before now.

Boosted.

Not sure, they do look very similar to those shown on the Holden Special Vehicles still born 427 Monaro project from a few years ago, I think some aspect of this engine when into the LS7, and defiantly into later race programs that GM ran, it was a long way ahead of the Mosler, Porsche and others at the Bathurst 24 when they ran it.

crafty said:

GTWayne said:

Indeed Grant, that motor does have a certain appeal but what is the point of trying to shed weight by the copious use of CF only to affix 2 X coil packs the size of garden sheds to the front of the motor?

Display motor.... coil packs go on the inner guards or firewall....

I think the use of carbon fiber is more functional than weight saving, if you run the accompanying CF air box, the first bit of metal the intake air would see would be the cylinder head. CF is less likely to heat up during the duration of an endurance race.

Edited by ezakimak on Monday 18th June 13:11

[GTWayne]

crafty said:

GTWayne said:

Indeed Grant, that motor does have a certain appeal but what is the point of trying to shed weight by the copious use of CF only to affix 2 X coil packs the size of garden sheds to the front of the motor?

Display motor.... coil packs go on the inner guards or firewall....

I think the use of carbon fiber is more functional than weight saving, if you run the accompanying CF air box, the first bit of metal the intake air would see would be the cylinder head. CF is less likely to heat up during the duration of an endurance race.

Easy fellas, my comment was just a joke, honest ( jokes do not need to be factually correct to be amusing now days do they? )

[crafty]

I stand (self) corrected.

[deadscoob]

GTWayne said:

Easy fellas, my comment was just a joke, honest ( jokes do not need to be factually correct to be amusing now days do they? )

No - they do need to be funny though

[Essex Gtr]

Wow, nice!!

[GTWayne]

deadscoob said:

GTWayne said:

Easy fellas, my comment was just a joke, honest ( jokes do not need to be factually correct to be amusing now days do they? )

No - they do need to be funny though

Are you missing Bernard already or something?

[chuntington101]

i think Katech in the sates build these for the corvette team. from what they have said on ls1tech.com they have about 20 at a time just sat in their store!

thanks Chris.

[Essex Gtr]

chuntington101 said:

i think Katech in the sates build these for the corvette team. from what they have said on ls1tech.com they have about 20 at a time just sat in their store!

thanks Chris.

They wont mind if we take one or two then!!

[GTRene]

crafty said:

I stand (self) corrected.

The engine and covers look very yummy but lord oh lord what a big restrictors between the intake and the pipes too the front looks like its going from 90mm too 30mm and then 90 again?

[GTWayne]

GTRene! Where have you been man? Abducted by aliens perhaps? On a peace keeping mission to the Antarctic? Or maybe just on holiday 'eh

[Fran Hall]

I used to work at Katech and can attest to the guys Ronnie, Teddy ,Glen , Keith and Chuck building those engines and lots of them.

There are not 20 sitting around but there are a few.....if I remember correctly the intake system minus electronics was 25k usd and the GM racing electronics package (fuel and ignition) was upwards of 75k usd....factory team budgets are unreal....

When we did Indy cars (IRL)with the Cosworth suupplied XG engine package the pro-rated budget per weekend was in excess of 1.5million USD....that did include the development budgets but even so....ouch..!!!!

[Sean Edwards]

That does look very impresive! Not driven the C5 or 6 R yet, but they do look like an amazing car! The road Z06 is awsome, so the GT1 must be really good!

www.seanedwards.eu

[GTRene]

GTWayne said:

GTRene! Where have you been man? Abducted by aliens perhaps? On a peace keeping mission to the Antarctic? Or maybe just on holiday 'eh

I was exploring Mars see if the climate was good enough to live there, the good thing, no police, the bad thing no roads and no cars, ow and no woman yet

on the more serious note, I'm not that much on this lovely forum as I used to be...not that much energy sadly, my car has plenty but even with the car I don't go out that much(its a shame I know) hope to get a bit more energy back again and less rules that spoils my driving fun, but I think that's a hard part to ask..