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Originally Posted by 2KZ28CAM
Confirmed!?!? Doubt it...but they say they heard from a third-cousin that the final numbers would be: 620hp/595tq.
And would "rocket" to 200mph.  I still say 212-215 is on-tap. Therefore, could the power numbers be low, also?
http://jalopnik.com/353287/chicago-a...bers-confirmed
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This has been out here for awhile, but just a thought that nobody knows for sure....
GM 'always' underrates HP figures..........
Forget the King of the Hill. Meet the God of the Mountain
By Daniel Pund, Senior Editor, Detroit Email
Date posted: 12-19-2007
You've waited long enough to hear the real deal on the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, right? The nonstop, server-frying deluge of speculation, hoaxes, misinformation, wild-ass guessing and publicity-stunt silliness has dragged on just short of three years now.
In anticipation of the ZR1's introduction at the 2008 Detroit auto show in January, Chevrolet at last has opened the proverbial hood on this, the most powerful, most expensive and most highly anticipated Corvette in the model's half-century history.
Here, finally, is the real story.
"Greater Than 620 Horsepower"
All right, so there's one thing that we can't put a final figure to and that's the important one: the ZR1's power output.
But Ron Meegan, the assistant chief engineer for the new 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1's supercharged V8 (and formerly a member of the original ZR-1's engine team from 1990-'95), says he expects that once the new car's supercharged 6.2-liter V8 is certified, it will produce "greater than 620 horsepower at 6,500 rpm and 595 pound-feet of torque in the 3,600-to-4,000-rpm range, depending on some last-minute tuning items."
So even GM doesn't have a final power figure yet. Although you can be sure that if Meegan's superiors allowed him to mention any figure to us, they're not worried about making those numbers. Remember, when the current-generation Z06 was unveiled, it came with a claim of 500 hp, and when the production car arrived it had a rating of 505 hp.
Whether the ZR1 is rated at 625 hp or 633 hp or whatever, it won't just be the most powerful Corvette production vehicle ever (including ones measured by the grossly overstated "SAE gross" figures of pre-1972), it won't even be close. The power produced by the ZR1's LS9 engine will be roughly the equivalent of three 1980s-era Corvette small-block V8s bolted together. It'll produce more power than the Corvette C6.R that races at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The Nordschleife on Chrome Rims, Y'all
ZR1 chief engineer Tadge Juechter says, "If a buyer really wants them, he can get chrome wheels on it," although he's letting us know that he would never do such a thing and he thinks you shouldn't either. But the ZR1 isn't a racecar.
Juechter adds, "It's sort of like the Turbo but for less money and with performance — more like the Carrera GT."
That's big talk. But, while Chevrolet is not yet making specific performance claims, Juechter notes that the ZR1 will be faster, quicker and more responsive in every way than a Z06. "You won't see a huge difference in 0-60 mph because even the Z06 is traction-limited through most of that," he says. "But in the quarter-mile and tests from zero to 100 mph to zero, there will be big differences."
And just to up the ZR1's chest-puffing quotient, Juechter notes this car "will be able to take the production-car track record at any racetrack." Ex-squeeze me? And no, the company has not done an officially timed run at the Nürburgring yet.
As for top speed, Juechter says only that the 200-mph speedometer of the standard and Z06 Corvettes has been replaced with a 220-mph unit, because the standard one is "grossly inadequate."
And remember, Don't always believe what you read,
Didn't Mr. Lutz from GM say that the new Supercar, (now known as the ZR1),
would be 7 liters??
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New Numbers
The less powerful 505 HP Z06 will do 198.
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