Global Race Engine of the Year Award
Corvette Racing's Small-Block V-8 Wins Global Race Engine of the Year Award
COLOGNE, Germany - GM's small-block V-8 added another accolade to a long list of honors when Corvette Racing's LS7.R was named the Global Motorsport Engine of the Year at the inaugural Professional Motorsport World Expo in Cologne, Germany, on November 9. The race-prepared LS7.R engine, which shares its architecture with the production LS7 small-block V-8, propelled Corvette Racing to its fifth GT1 class victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans on June 18, 2006. The 7.0-liter engine also powered the Compuware Corvette C6.R race cars to the 2006 American Le Mans Series manufacturers, drivers and team championships with a perfect reliability record. "Winning this award is another milestone in the history of the legendary GM small-block V-8," said GM Racing director Mark Kent. "The championship-winning LS7.R has evolved to a very high level of development, yet it retains the longstanding virtues of compact size, simplicity, reliability and high specific output that have made the GM small-block V-8 the world's most successful production-based racing engine." The LS7.R is the heir to the GM small-block V-8's winning tradition that began in 1955. The small-block V-8 is the foundation of the hot rod and high-performance industries and the cornerstone of racing series around the world. GM has produced approximately 90 million small-block V-8 engines with a combined output of 27 billion horsepower. |
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27 billion horsepower....I bet that's more than Honda has produced, unless the number of engines is much, much higher...but I doubt that too.
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Honda have produced 50 million honda cub mopeds. With 4-8hp each, thats still 200 million hp
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next picture Johnny takes of himself will have him wearing the full licensed Corvette apparel, from the hat to the shirt, to the leather coat, to the shoes....... :-* :-*
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Originally Posted by davcivic
Clearly you are excited....so now go get the car and take some pics....
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Who won the award for the engine with technology? ;D
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Originally Posted by Stealthmode
Who won the award for the engine with technology? ;D
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I don't know much about v8's, but when does a small block become a big block?? Because 7 liters of displacement is getting pretty ------- big.
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Originally Posted by random-strike
you just read it :)
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You guys are funny. When was the first overhead cam motor anyways? There is only so many places to put a camshaft.
Randy |
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:-\ serious ???
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im sorry i have to agree with stealthmode on that 1
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all my complaining about the SBC and now this.......k LS7s are pimp...the rest are shitty and outdated ;)
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Originally Posted by EGgyLShatch
I don't know much about v8's, but when does a small block become a big block?? Because 7 liters of displacement is getting pretty ------- big.
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Originally Posted by iceracercrx
You guys are funny. When was the first overhead cam motor anyways? There is only so many places to put a camshaft.
Randy |
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i watched parts of that race and the commentators said that motor made enough torque that if the gear box broke they could finish the race with only 6th gear :1
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They don't have 6th gear, in the racecar anyways. Name one other production motor that comes with a 2.200 Delwest TI intake valve???
Randy |
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People hate the Ls7, but it will do just like the ls1 did. It will win more races then any other motor ever made.
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The small block are physicaly smaller with the same displacement ast the big blocks. I know that they have different things on them. Kinda like the b16 is bigger than a d16. Same displacement. Different bore,stroke,head,compression ratio, and other ----.
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