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How cool is this - exploded picture of LS9
saigonij - 27/12/07 at 09:35 AM

http://jalopnik.com/337672/detroit-auto-show-exploding-the-2009-corvette-zr1s-brilliantly-beautiful-ls9-engine

bonzoronnie - 27/12/07 at 09:52 AM

That's a well cool picture

I hope the engine comes with instructions !!??

Ronnie

gingerprince - 27/12/07 at 10:48 AM

LOL, from the subject I was expecting that there'd been a bomb or something in Leeds

JoelP - 27/12/07 at 10:54 AM

halton moor, i can think of worse areas to loose!

gazza285 - 27/12/07 at 12:44 PM

still got pushrods and two valves per cylinder.

Rather have one of these......

nick205 - 27/12/07 at 03:07 PM

Now that's an engine ^^^^^^^ (Not the Chevy behemouth)

That would be just lurvely in a Seven

zilspeed - 27/12/07 at 04:31 PM

The old BDA has to be considered the ultimate seven engine really, don't you think ?

There may be more powerful and cheaper ways to acheive the same result nowadays, but the BDA is just so right.

RichieW - 27/12/07 at 04:56 PM

The pistons look very shallow and lightweight on the LS9. I guess thats a modern take on things even if they do stick with the old fashioned two valves per cylinder which in itself isn't always a bad thing I reckon...

gazza285 - 27/12/07 at 06:34 PM

quote:
Originally posted by zilspeed
There may be more powerful and cheaper ways to acheive the same result nowadays, but the BDA is just so right.





It's still a competetive engine though, and it's been around that long that bits are relatively cheap when looking at an out and out race engine. Pat Doran's old BDT could run at near 1000bhp if he wanted it to, used to run it at near 800 for reliability though.

Reliability is relative in this case, as the races in rallycross don't exactly go on for hours.

roadrunner - 27/12/07 at 07:45 PM

Did'nt BMW do an exploded pici of there V10 engine, what car would you put that one in then.