The middle still has the Targa Top i.e. removable roof panel/s.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
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The middle still has the Targa Top i.e. removable roof panel/s.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
"Cancelled Orders"?....I didn't know that, but I reckon I can understand it, because the new model is a big departure from what we're used to seeing in Corvette.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
I wonder what they'd buy instead?
Pickles.
I understood it was to buy the new C8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pickles2
Oh right, I misunderstood, should have read your post properly,...I thought you were saying that the buyers didn't like the C8 because it was no longer a "conventional" Corvette!!Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
Pickles
Since Chevy announced that they were going to build a new Corvette - the C8 (around 2015/16) sales for the Corvette have slumped since in anticipation of the new C8. It is actually a very good time to buy a C7 in the US - as dealers are having trouble getting rid of them as everyone is waiting for the C8.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pickles2
The Corvette is a very profitable car for Chevrolet so I hope they have the sales success they want and it lives up to everyones expectations. Chevy has built about 4 or 5 mid engined prototypes over the years. The C8 is a game changer for the Corvette. I wonder how many people will see it as a super car now and not just a sports car. Now being mid engined I wonder how many potential Porsche / Ferrari / Lambo / Maserati buyers will seriously look at the Corvette now. Hell you could buy 2 Corvettes to their one (His and Her cars!)
The big block Corvettes (427 & 454) were rightly regarded as super cars. They were popular in Germany and German journalists raved about them. They outperformed anything made in Europe at three times the price, and needed 10% of the maintenance. Likewise the earlier Corvettes with the fuel injected 327 solid lifter Duntov cam engine. These revved like turbines up to 6500 rpm on the street.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
Spot On, although I believe it will not meet "Supercar" criteria until the higher performance versions are released.Quote:
Originally Posted by crash
Always been a fan of the Corvette myself, particularly the earlier 427/454 big block versions (last of the chrome bumpers?)
Pickles.
Good to see the Corvette finally aiming higher than a rear drive tyre shredder.
was the 427 the 'rat'? or it might have an LS something, it was a crate special.
my mate put one in his panel van had extra lumpy camshaft, "wedge" heads huge exhaust pipes.
he shattered the diff first time he got up it , so in went a special tall diff , around town you drove it in first, maybe sometimes second.
but the "pull" from that engine was astonishing. I'm pretty sure he said it was a Corvette engine. Apparently you could buy them crated straight from the states almost turnkey.
and I was ****ing about in 4cyl Land Rovers at the time.
"L" prefix in GM option codes is for an engine. "M" is transmission, "G" is rear axle. I have a GM Performance Parts catalogue dated 28/3/88 which lists two complete or "crate" 454 engines. LS6 had 10.2:1 compression and LS7 had 12.25:1 compression. Both were iron heads and block. An aluminium bare block is listed for both 427 & 454 capacities. The contemporary Chevrolet Power Manual states LS6 is a high performance street engine and LS7 is a competition engine that should be regularly opened up for inspection if used that way. No claims made for horsepower. Several iron bare blocks were listed for Corvette, truck with 0.400" higher deck height, and a couple of "off road racer" blocks. The highest horsepower claim I can find for a street Corvette was 465 @ 5600 rpm in 1970 with one big four barrel carb. I would suggest that a 1988 LS7 was pumping out over 600 horses with awesome torque.Quote:
Originally Posted by ramblingboy42