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The Corvette Museum puts the Corvette ZR1 Easter egg on a pallet


In many conversations over the years with development teams Chevrolet CorvetteIt’s obvious how much effort they put in to have fun with America sport car and car fans. The crew seems to have particular fun with the C8, a model that started its life by going where there is no escort ship went ahead and just continued to do so. The teasing continued throughout the summer, perhaps unintentionally, but few people realized it until recently. When Corvette Blogger visit the restoration workshop During the 28th Anniversary Celebration at the National Corvette Museum in September, this shop did a demo video of the LT6 engine used in the Z06 placed on a specially crafted wooden pallet to contains a 5.5 liter V8 engine. In front of the motor, a square piece of black tape covers part of the pallet. No one noticed it.

In the first day of this month, corvette forum member Andybump posted a photo he took of the same engine on the same pallet, wondering why the engine was in the garage next to an LT2 V8 in a room full of Corvette projects and ideas. Then user Sicky said they went to the museum in July and saw the same motive. In Sicky’s photo (above), no tape covering the preprinted information on the pallet, revealing the words “LT6 Gamma” and “LT7 Beta.” We pay attention to the second stencil, as it is said to refer to the engine that we will soon find in the rear of the new Corvette ZR1 and suggests GM ready for testing.

To be clear, this is a Z06 engine. It even has the word “dyno” written on it, every Z06 engine bolted together at the Performance Building Center has been tested for 20 minutes on the bench to prove itself. But many years rumor claims the LT7 will be a twin-turbo version of the LT6. Instead of the Z06’s 670 horsepower and 460 pound-feet of torque, the LT7 has been predicted with around 850 horsepower and anywhere from 720 to 840 lb-ft. Beyond the output ambiguity, it’s unclear if GM has reduced the displacement of the LT7 compared to the LT6. As mentioned in the forum thread, the naturally aspirated 4.4 liter engine Ferrari The V8 that GM has eclipsed the LT6 in terms of power density shrinks in displacement as it adds two turbochargers. 4.4-liter Ferrari NA makes 562 hp and 398 lb-ft in 458 Italy; equipped with two screws for 488GTB, capacity decreased to 3.9 liters, capacity increased to 661 horsepower and 561 lb-ft. inside Tributo Ferrari F8the TT The 3.9-liter makes up to 710 hp and 568 lb-ft. As a result, some rumors suspect that the 5.5-litre LT6 NA can drop to the (relatively) “small” 4.4-litre as a twin-turbo LT7. Anyone who follows European sports coupes and sedans knows that 4.4 liters is a very popular displacement for great power.

All this is speculation, mind. Moving on with more, whatever the final LT7 is, it is expected to serve the top-of-the-range Zora with around 1,000 hp thanks to mixture magnetic cradle motor E-Ray four-wheel drive system. The E-Ray won’t hit that mark, as it gets the 6.2-liter LT2 V8 from the base Stingray and has to be mindful of its place in the constellation of performance. Corvette watchers are planning to launch the ZR1 sometime next year as a 2024 model, either before or after E-Ray launches next year. Zora is expected for about a year after that.

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