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 ...
To accommodate the engine's large valves and enable more direct intake port flow, the intake-side rocker arms are offset 6 mm between the valve tip and the push rod. Actuating the valves is a new ...
As powerful and efficient as the Corvette's 6.2L LS3 engine is, there's always room for improvement. This unrealized potential is perhaps most evident in the cam timing, which is relatively mild ...
The history of the LS engine which includes the LS1/LS6, LS2, LS3/L99, LS4, LS7, LS9 and the LSA. LS heritageThe General Motors engine family commonly called the LS series debuted in the then-new1997 ...
If the Chevrolet Corvette is known for one thing, it's speed. Speed is relative, though, and our expectations have grown over the years. Every Corvette generation has beefed up the specs, and one ...
Way back in 2015, we performed the mother of all LS intake tests by running 20 different intakes designed for cathedral-port heads . That test included every cathedral-port intake we could get our ...
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 ...
When the 1997 Corvette was new it was fielding a very potent powerplant: the Gen III all-aluminum LS1. At 345 hp it made the Corvette pretty fast. But as they say “that was then and this is now” and ...