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Old 03-05-2013, 07:14 AM   #1
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Boost Gauge is First Evidence of a Supercharged C7 Corvette?

2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Supercharger Boost Gauge Spotted!
Car and Driver

March 5, 2013


A picture, it’s said, is worth a thousand words. And while that may or may not actually be true, the image you see here is certainly worth at least three: Supercharged C7 Corvette.

Captured during a photo shoot of the new 2014 Stingray convertible before its Geneva debut, it was only when we got back to the office that we noticed the PSI gauge in the instrument cluster of our subject Vette. Located directly to the left of the tachometer in the Vette’s programmable thin-film transistor (TFT) display, it includes the telltale icon of two interlocking rotor vanes. (Another view showed us that the gauge can live to the right of the tach, too—score one for programmability.) What’s more, it appears to depict the twin four-lobe rotor setup as used in the previous C6 ZR-1’s supercharged LS9 V-8 engine. Known as a roots-type positive displacement supercharger, the familiar identifying graphic has made the transition from analog to digital display virtually unchanged.
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