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Originally Posted by motorhead
It won't shut Ford up until they give the Camaro the same treatment.
I think AWD would be awesome on a 700HP vette though. That would be a lot of very expensive cars on the trailer.
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AWD only helps when you've got more power than traction. The rest of the time it just slows you down.
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Originally Posted by 05stram
With Ferrari in the mix to build the next generation of the 8.4L for the Viper, from what I understand they are wanting to obtain the efficiency of 90 HP per liter with the engine retaining the push rod configuration. If SRT utilizes it residual sharing opportunities with Lamborghini I expect the Viper will either give way and finally incorporate an OHV config and with that and DI imagine where they will go.
The thing is GM if they do decide to release the LT5 it will probably be under rated in HP department. They usually do this just in case and have done it since the early 60s. That 700 HP engine may actually be producing 720 and capable of 760. Nobody ever knows for sure until they start tuning them.
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GM hasn't under-rated engines since they began using the current SAE test standard nearly a decade ago. When you advertise your engine as being SAE certified, there is a fairly narrow window that your engines have to fit in. You can go a little conservative, or a little optimistic, but they're not going to be consistently off by 10%. A certain percentage of engines have to be within a few percent of the advertised power, with the rest split roughly evenly above and below that window. I don't know what the numbers are exactly but it think its something like 80% have to be within 5%. About the most an automaker can do to 'under rate' with this system is to pick a nominal value (the advertised hp number) that is maybe 1 or 2 percent under the actual statistical average. So on 700ish hp, that works out to being under-rated by maybe 10 hp, not really anything to get excited about.