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Chevy Silverado Truck Packs A Supercharged LS9 Under The Hood [Video]
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Shoving small block engines into short bed, half-ton trucks is nothing new. But a supercharged LS9 from a Corvette ZR1 into a Chevrolet Silverado pickup? Now that’s something worth checking out. Aside from the side exit exhaust on the truck – which is a pretty common modification on Silverados – absolutely nothing else has been…
GM Builds 100-Millionth Small-Block Engine
GM hit a huge milestone today, building its 100-millionth (that’s 100,000,000) small-block engine, 56 years after its first one rolled off its production line. And in something that almost seems planned, the 100-millionth small-block came in the same month GM celebrated its 100th anniversary. Used in GM vehicles around the world, the small-block engine can…
Chevrolet Camaro Z28 To Be Produced Starting January 1, 2012
With only 352 days to go before the Chevrolet Camaro Z28 goes into production, you still have ample time to take up chewing tobacco and get acquainted with the music of Whitesnake. The information comes from a dealer who just attended a national dealer meeting where Chevrolet officials described the product in detail. The name “Z28” was…
Chevrolet Dealers Revive COPO Camaros For 2011
In the glory days of the muscle car, Chevrolet dealers would sometimes manipulate GM’s centralized ordering system to whip up some crazy concoctions with performance parts not normally available on regular production cars from the Bowtie brand. Nowadays, the COPO cars (as they’re known, in honor of GM’s Central Office Production Order system) can bring…
Chevy to Build Corvette ZR1 Engine Live at SEMA
Chevrolet will be doing something pretty unique this year to gather the crowd around their booth at the SEMA Show. They will have a team of their mechanics and engineers present to assemble a supercharged LS9 6.2-liter V8 from scratch. And while the assembly is going on, those present will be free to ask any…
2012 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 Spied; LSA Supercharged V8 On Deck
The 2011 Ford Mustang has upped the game with its superior driving dynamics, and the Dodge Challenger is getting more power this year to go along with its ultra-faithful retro styling. Not willing to be left behind, Chevrolet is readying the most extreme Camaro yet, the 2012 Z28. Powered by the 6.2L Supercharged V8 used in…
Lingenfelter Chevy LS9 Camaro SS Goes Into the 10s [with video]
Last year, Lingenfelter Performance Engineering announced its new Chevy Camaro Engine Packages bragging about major horsepower upgrades while maintaining daily-driving performance. A little less than a year later, Lingenfelter is lighting up the quarter-mile track, putting on a display with their own Chevy Camaro demo vehicle. This Camaro packs a real punch, sporting a built…
