The General Motors engine family commonly called the LS series debuted in the then-new1997 model year C5 Corvette as the all aluminum LS1 V8. General Motors called it the Gen III small-block V8 and a ...
It has over 500hp and is hand-built There’s bragging rights to having a 7.0-liter engine The most powerful motor is always the best choice for a track car The LS3 is for sissies While Chevy had kicked ...
Despite the exotic allure of the ZR1's blown LS9 and the low-end grunt of the Z06's 427-cube LS7, the engine most commonly found in today's Corvettes is the "Gen IV" 6.2L LS3, which is standard ...
The spy shots last week told us what to expect and now GM has unveiled the 2008 Corvette, fitted with a new 6.2L LS3 V8 engine developing 430hp and 575 Nm of torque. Other changes include the option ...
Back in the early 1990s the Gen II LT1 and LT4 engines powered GM's hottest performance cars, but GM read the tea leaves and knew that this platform would not be able to get them where they would ...
Model year 2007 was also when GM decided to offer limited-edition Indy pace car tributes. Numbering just 500 cars, they were all painted in Atomic Orange and, just like the actual pilot cars driven by ...
GM's highly-regarded LS3 is one of the company's most celebrated small-block V8 engines. It burst onto the scene in 2008 as the evolution of GM's "Gen IV" LS family and its immediate predecessor, the ...
For more than four decades, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering has been churning out a slew of wild high-performance products, from engine upgrades, to parts, to crate engines. Now, the tuner is ...
The C6 was arguably the most significant generation of Corvette, with many firsts including the first Vette to hit 200 mph bone-stock! In 1997, performance came back strong in the Corvette with the ...