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Totally agree. But you know there are a few that love to complain and argue needless points. :thumbs:

Thanks Blue for all the videos in one place. This could be be a sticky.

Wow 10,000,000 hours of computational analysis, 6,000,000 of which were on the combustion system.

Let's see - 10M hours = 417,000 days = 1096 years.

Wow, they have been working on this thing for a long time! :D

:cheers:

Damn, you'd think with all that time they could make it look more like this...:D
http://spikestl.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/427.jpg

No doubt, not sure what that was all about? Guy talks about building 900 HP Hondas then makes that comment?

It is not all about horsepower. It is not the size of the horsepower it is how you drive it.. Got it?

Great vids, Ox. Thanks.:thumbs:

If the base C7 would have a 405hp V6 yet lap VIR quicker than the C6 base do you think people would be happy? Would you?

Unless bragging about horsepower makes someone's e-peen bigger or they get off on stop light races, why would this be a horrible thing? It's about performance and not stats/bragging.

Well, the V6 part would be bad for me because the number of cylinders my car has is a direct reflection on my manliness. :D

I've got 435 now and I don't get to use all of that.

Because reducing one car's performance to what it can do on VIR is not very different to reducing the car's performance to what it can do on a dyno.

1. Some tracks are shorter and more technical and anything more than 300hp would go untaped. That doesn't mean that 500hp is not usable in other employments.

2. Most Corvette owners will not track their car. Acceleration from a roll and burnouts are more like the regular escapades and 500hp works pretty nice with that use.

3. What if the C7 lapped VIR faster only because of it's tires? Do we not care at all why a car goes faster? I think we should, because if using a new tire design makes the C6 faster then that would upset a lot of new buyers and more power becomes imperative.

GM has had at least two methodologies of getting 500hp out of this 6.2 pushrod block for over a decade. Dual in block cams and cam-in-cam. Not getting either of these in return for some fuel saving bits is more than disappointing.

People could get used to 450hp in the C7 but it's not what they wished for.

Blame the Feds for this one :D

I will. But if this happens again on the performance models which are low volume GM will get the stare. :D

Just think...you could be blaming them for a V6 or a 5.5 V8.:yesnod:

LS3, ls7, or ls9s are still available. :hurray:

436? :D C6, or 427/435?

Understood and agreed, except that in my case I only started with 400. However, that's not the point, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't the original question.

I think the point is what HP level would it take to induce us to induce us to order a new Corvette. For most of us here that's not about "is a 450 HP C7 worth $51,995" - and I'm pretty sure it is - but rather whether the increase in performance is worth the cost increase over what we have now. I suspect that for many C6 owners it isn't, at least not initially.

In my case I have a C6 with 400 HP (initially :D), 22k miles, and still under GMPP - and it's in LMB which is no longer available. It's worth maybe $30k, and no, I wouldn't sell it for that.

The replacement out the door around here in CA would be +/- $ 58k minimum, if available at MSRP.

So - is a 50 HP gain worth $28,000.00 to me? NO.

Maybe in a couple years when the ratings go up and the bugs are worked out.:yesnod:

:cheers:

tuxnharley gets it.

Well, for $28K you could get alot more HP out of your LS2, like 500 more...if that's all you're after. :cheers: