New Chevy engine video

[Mikes2nd]

check out the video below... I have an LS3... but they should have called it the LS4... kept the numbers going... would have been cool to one day be like "yeah its a LS12... LS15, LS21..."

New Chevrolet Corvette V8 is 6.2 liters, designated LT1. Not the first time a Corvette engine has that RPO code.

0 to 60 mph in less than 4 seconds. Entry-level car. 450 hp or more!

New Corvette WILL use cylinder deactivation. Go from 6.2 V8 to 3.1 V4 for better fuel economy.

New V8 engine has 11.5:1 compression ratio. Direct fuel injection, cylinder deactivation; continuously variable valve timing; active fuel management

450 hp 450 lb-ft of torque. More than 26 mpg!

New engine has a unique and complex piston head.

New LT1 V8 has 50 lb-ft more low-end torque than current LS3 V8; matches the LS7 V8 from the Z06.

LT1 engine to be built at Tonawanda engine plant in Buffalo.

Premium fuel recommended, but not required.

Spark plug is in the center of the chamber. Intake and exhaust valves are reversed.

There will be an optional 11.5 quart dry sump oil system available for the new LT1 V8

6,600 RPM fuel cut off in the new LT1 motor

All the new technologies on the LT1 make it a heavier motor than the LS3

Patent-pending PCV system

Final performance ratings will come in 2013

LT1 Engine build animation video -->

Peak horsepower around 6,000 RPM; peak torque around 4,000 RPM

New combustion process to be documented in an SAE paper to be published in the Spring of 2013

LT1 is the first OHV engine with Direct Injection

[IPD]

old news...but yes, the lt-1 choice for name is beyond retarded. by rights, if they are on a new generation of SBC engine, the new ones should be the LU series--this being the LU-1.

[green-lantern]

Cool vid, looks like they built a winner.

[mcshooter]

cool vid mike, save it for when you put a stage 3 cam in your ls3 for your 1970 pontiac.. it shows step by step on assy.. jk

[anyonebutme]

I don't understand who in the company decided to call it LT1.



When I think of awesome Chevy engines........the LT1 isn't exactly high on that list. Not like they are bringing back a legendary code like Z06, ZR1, L88, L96, ect. It was a shitty engine quite honestly. IIRC it made like 200HP stock.