First peek at the all new Gen V small block V8! :-)
07-16-2012, 01:17 PM
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Looks about as ugly as the Jalopnik rendering of the car!
(...the engine, not Mr. Flinch!)
Let's hope for 500hp!
Remember, C5 Z06 = 405hp
Base LS2 C6 = 400hp
(...the engine, not Mr. Flinch!)
Let's hope for 500hp!
Remember, C5 Z06 = 405hp
Base LS2 C6 = 400hp
07-16-2012, 01:30 PM
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[QUOTE=SanDiegoBert;1581328440All you motorheads out there: What do you see?
I'm no motorhead, but it sure looks like a truck engine to me. It's very tall.[/QUOTE]
There is the possibility that by having al lmotors of this generation with dry sumps, they could lower the engine several inches, lowering the CoG and allowing taller straighter intake posrt.
The other thing that looks a little "off" is the valve covers. The odd shapes could be where DI fits in, but the lateral arrangement might also imply hemi-head style valves instead of bathtub valves.
Just speculating...
I'm no motorhead, but it sure looks like a truck engine to me. It's very tall.[/QUOTE]
There is the possibility that by having al lmotors of this generation with dry sumps, they could lower the engine several inches, lowering the CoG and allowing taller straighter intake posrt.
The other thing that looks a little "off" is the valve covers. The odd shapes could be where DI fits in, but the lateral arrangement might also imply hemi-head style valves instead of bathtub valves.
Just speculating...
07-16-2012, 01:33 PM
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While that intake manifold does look sort of like a lower profile car type unit, the smallish appearing throttle body seems to suggest 'truck engine' so I might agree that's possibly one of the truck applications. 
07-16-2012, 01:51 PM
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07-16-2012, 01:53 PM
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Nice find!
Certainly looks like no DOHC, so OHV just as the previous engines would be my guess. It's very hard to tell if it is DFI without a closer view of the injectors and/or fuel rails, but I don't see the traditional DFI injector location. The valve covers look very different, looks like perhaps a three valve setup going on there as if that was the DFI injectors, I would expect it to look uniform from cylinder to cylinder. Hmm!!
Certainly looks like no DOHC, so OHV just as the previous engines would be my guess. It's very hard to tell if it is DFI without a closer view of the injectors and/or fuel rails, but I don't see the traditional DFI injector location. The valve covers look very different, looks like perhaps a three valve setup going on there as if that was the DFI injectors, I would expect it to look uniform from cylinder to cylinder. Hmm!!
07-16-2012, 02:17 PM
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07-16-2012, 02:48 PM
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07-16-2012, 05:28 PM
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Note that a link to this Gen V photo and the source article was posted yesterday by blackcorvette06 on the Gen v News thread (Post #55):
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c7-g...-v-news-3.html
This thread has some subsequent posts speculating about what we are seeing here. In particular, I observed that it doesn't look like OHCs to me, the lumps on the valve cover are puzzling (Doesn't look like the coils. VVT mechanism? DI nozzles/plumbing?), and the tubular-looking things in the exhaust manifold that look to be pointing toward the ports are also puzzling (DI injectors go here? O2 sensors for A/F modulation of each cylinder? Air injection per old emissions-control technology?).
Also another publication refered to this photo as a Silverado engine. But as has been pointed out on various threads, the Corvette engine has been and probably will be a variation of the v-8 used in GM trucks (or visa-versa if you prefer looking at it that way).
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c7-g...-v-news-3.html
This thread has some subsequent posts speculating about what we are seeing here. In particular, I observed that it doesn't look like OHCs to me, the lumps on the valve cover are puzzling (Doesn't look like the coils. VVT mechanism? DI nozzles/plumbing?), and the tubular-looking things in the exhaust manifold that look to be pointing toward the ports are also puzzling (DI injectors go here? O2 sensors for A/F modulation of each cylinder? Air injection per old emissions-control technology?).
Also another publication refered to this photo as a Silverado engine. But as has been pointed out on various threads, the Corvette engine has been and probably will be a variation of the v-8 used in GM trucks (or visa-versa if you prefer looking at it that way).
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07-16-2012, 06:16 PM
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True.
And, all of that '5.5L talk' aside, perhaps this new Gen V engine will see a jump in displacement (6.4L?) as well.
Duly noted. But then again this news/info (and photo) is probably significant enough to warrant/justify it's own new thread, yes, no, maybe?
And, all of that '5.5L talk' aside, perhaps this new Gen V engine will see a jump in displacement (6.4L?) as well.
07-16-2012, 06:18 PM
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The raised areas in the rocker covers of this truck engine probably make clearance for cylinder deactivation hardware.
07-16-2012, 07:14 PM
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Look at the throttle body. It's angled UP! Meaning the motor is likely sitting lower.
If this were a truck motor, the throttle body would not be pointing upward.
07-16-2012, 08:49 PM
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07-17-2012, 09:04 AM
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I've answered your question. Now, here's mine: Why do you care so much?