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LS7 GM Production Engine Fast Fact With its classic 427-cubic-inch displacement, the 505 hp LS7 7.0-liter made its mark in the C6 Corvette Z06 and advanced its legacy in the fifth-generation ...
Engine swappers, meet a new candidate for project cars. Chevrolet last Friday revealed the LS7-based LS427/570 crate engine that packs all the goodness of the past Chevy Corvette Z06 engine with a ...
Just as interesting as the LS7's specifi-cations is its assembly process at the new GM Performance Build Center (PBC), in the industrial 'burbs of Detroit. A single technician builds each engine ...
Chevrolet is killing the LS7 V8 crate engine. Before they're all gone, ... Green Machine Mercury Racing’s New 750-HP Corvette-Based Crate Engine Is One Mean, Green Machine.
GM first discussed phasing out the original LS7 in June 2020, Road & Track noted. But it was assumed that the new LS427/570 version would stay in production as its replacement.
In this tech article HOT ROD follows along as Livernois Motorsports shows you how to swap a 505hp LS7 crate engine into a 2010 Chevy Camaro. Only at www.hotrod.com, the official website for Hot ...
A year ago, when we dropped an LS7 into the HOT ROD Solstice, that crate engine was relatively new, and there weren't very many in the hungry hands of the public. But in the time since, GM ...
I bought a 69 Camaro from a guy in Texas with an old Chevy crate engine in it called an LS7 Big Block. He installed the LS7 in the car in the late 1980's and the number stamped on the block is ...
Chevy's LS7 engine was one of their most powerful, ... Introduced in 2005, with its new 6.0-liter LS2 producing 400 horsepower, a 50 horsepower gain over the outgoing C5 Corvette.
A forged crank isn't unheard of in production engines (the famed Ford 5.0 got one), ... In the first part of this series, we discussed the impressive output of the new LS7.
Chevrolet produced the rare LS6 V8 engine in the 1970s, with only 4,663 examples made. The LS6 engine was used in Chevelle, ...