will it? I hope not.. I kinda like the elegance of having an engine all NA.. A power adder is just more complexity for someting else to break... Only way to convince me otherwise, is to have the C6R C7R or whatever it is Le Mans car to also have a supercharger on top.

 

is it possible we could see that supercharger making it's way onto lesser engines--i.e. LS2 or another engine that's around by that time? 500 hp would be easy to fathom then.

 

The thought of a 427 Camaro is very sweet

 

The LS7 is incredibly pricey...about $12,500. As opposed to the LS1s, which can be had for about a third of that price.

It is a low production, hand built engine, which is one of the reasons for the high price, not to mention the high grade materials that go into it.

See this thread for the pricing:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...ls7&forum_id=1

 

Okay yes it spricey low volume BUT adding it to a Camaro would increase volume and decrease price. As for the certification process.......

If Ford can build a low volume Mustang with basiacaly a Ford GT engine---so can GM. And it would stomp the Mustang!!

 

Well, let's hope Lutz didn't just run his mouth about things he can't back up...............and I don't believe he did.

 

LS7 is not built the same place as the other LSx's. It is completely hand built at Wixom, and has quite a few added processes and content that makes it a very expensive motor. It is basically balanced and blueprinted (not exactly, but might as well be). Let's not get caught up in which motor we get, but that it will have 500hp or more...

 

As many have said the LS7 is hand built. Each engine is produced by one person. I don't know exactly how many builders they have but each engine is done start to finish by one person. Thats why its an exclusive engine because you can trace each engine back to a specific builder who is obviously skilled. It is possible that it could find its way into a low production version. I beleive it was stated they have the capacity to produce up to 20,000 a year so that quite a bit. 7k-9k go to the Z06 though.

 

Yeah, I know how much they sell for. What my question was regarding was how much is it actually costing GM out of their pocket to build the engine. I would like to know how much it would jack the price of a Camaro up to have an LS7 installed straight from GM, and figured the price of what GM actually pays altogether to build the engine would be a better place to start figuring how much an LS7 may push the price up on the car.

 

I’m willing to bet cost of material is minimally more than the regular LS2’s, I bet most of the cost of an LS7 is in the slow time it takes to be hand built.

If GM were run the LS7 on a conventional assembly line like all the other LSx engines I doubt we would see any “real” additional price.

However like I stated before its not the engine its self that adds cost to a car line it’s the millions to certify it…

Keep in mind the same LS1 in the Z28 had to be recertified with the SS back in the 4th gen.

Then the hurdle of the bean counters approval that’s its worth spending the millions to certify it… Low volume + high added cost = no production

I’m not saying it would happen, but I’m not ganna get my hopes up.

You know Maximum Bob, if he says make it happen, we may very well see LS7s in our 5th gens.

 

I doubt the price of an LS7 is minimal over the price of an LS2. A forged steel crank, forged titanium connecting rods (this has got to be expensive), a dry sump oiling system, titanium intake valves, sodium filled steel exhaust valves, and all the other goods don't buy themselves. I wonder how much all these go fast items push the price up though.

 

Well built in mass quantities I was thinking hundreds of dollars compared to thousands when I said minimal......sorry I should have been more specific...

This is prob a PacerX question

 

For the 1,345,679th time... There is only about a $10K price difference between the crate versions of the LS2 and the LS7.

 

Personally, I think the ls7 is moot. The LS3 (?), 6.2 liter motor is supposed to be going into the 'Vette in '08, rumored to be at 450 hp, I would be quite happy with 450 hp as a starting point. Especially if the Hi-Po Camaro were to weigh in at ~3600 lbs. Hell with the difference in purchase price, I could SC and put a full exhaust on the Camaro

 

Thought just occured to me, how cool would it be if the ls3 were to be punched out to 6.5 liters, then we could have 396 Camaro's stalking the streets again!