Sharing with your little brother may be the right thing to do in front of your parents, but don’t tell that to the crew who designed the new LT6 engine for the 2023 Corvette Z06.
According to a recent article on SAE.org, the new 5.5-liter flat-plane crank engine in Chevy’s Z06 shares absolutely no parts with any other GM small-block V8.
In fact, there may truly be no other engine exactly like the Z06 anywhere on the planet, according to GM Chief Engineer Jordan Lee.
The only feature common to the LT6 and the GM small block V8, he says, is a 4.4-inch bore-center spacing. “In today’s day and age, it’s hard to define an engine by one dimension [the 4.4-inch bore center],” Lee told SAE International.
“This is,” he goes on to say, “a unique engine on its own.”
The LT6 has already been dubbed the most powerful naturally aspirated engine ever designed, a title it’s likely to hold forever since internal-combustion gasoline engines apparently are on the way out, giving way soon to electric vehicles.
The Small Block engineering team set a goal of 650 horsepower in the early stages of development but soon realized it was possible to get even more than that – eventually winding up at 670 horsepower and 460 lb-ft of torque. “We quickly realized we had 650 [horsepower] in the bag,” says Dustin Gardner, assistant chief engineer.
A cohort – Yoon Lee, design system engineer – points out that the Z06 engine is even more powerful than the racing version, which is limited by endurance-racing rules requiring intake restrictions that limit power output.
Lee goes even further in his praise of the LT6, saying he thinks “it’s going to stand the test of time of being one of the true icons.”
And if you are worried that the new Z06 will have cooling problems like the early C7 versions did under certain circumstances, don’t fret because the 2023 will have 50 percent more cooling capacity than the Z51 Stingray, thanks to five radiators, larger side vent openings, and 50 percent more powerful front fans. The Z06 will be so cool, in fact, that engineers are bragging that owners will be able to use the air conditioner in 100-degree ambient temperature while running on the track!
Source:
SAE International
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gas engines on their way out? My son went from LI to Lake George last weekend in his Tesla had to stop 3 times to charge. Gas engines will be gone if everyone agrees to never go more than 50 miles from home.
The shown image is not a flat plane. It is regular V configuration. A flat plane engine the pistons are 180 degrees from each other.
C10 Corvette will run on a flux capacitor so we can ♻️ recycle out trash.
Warren, The Flat Plane refers to the counterweights on the Crank…not the “boxer or H engine” layout of horizontally opposed Pistons that you will see in the Porcshe and Subaru’s. Here is an article that can explain what they are speaking to.. https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/difference-between-cross-plane-and-flat-plane-cranks/ Hope that helps!
We are going total electric too soon. Keep that V8 but add an electric motor. I can live just fine with a hybrid. No worries of a dead battery or waiting too long for a charge.
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