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Mar 7, 2006 | 10:56 AM

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would a viper v10 from a '98 GTS fit into my c5's engine bay?

Mar 7, 2006 | 11:05 AM

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would a viper v10 from a '98 GTS fit into my c5's engine bay?

no but a LS7 will.

Mar 7, 2006 | 11:40 AM

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would a viper v10 from a '98 GTS fit into my c5's engine bay?

why, why, why...

Mar 7, 2006 | 11:49 AM

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You can make as much power with a stroked Ls1 or a Ls7 why go through the headache of trying to stuff that thing in there. The amount of fabrication involved wouldn't be worth it. IMO

Mar 7, 2006 | 11:55 AM

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Please tell me you posted this just to get a rise out of people. This is a LS1 website.

Mar 7, 2006 | 12:05 PM

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This is officially the worst conversion idea in the history of this forum.

Mar 7, 2006 | 12:16 PM

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would a viper v10 from a '98 GTS fit into my c5's engine bay?

you would have to modify the oil pan, and either notch/modify the frame rails, or relocate all the accessories.. the front dual throttlebodys will be awfully close to the hood. you may endup having to put some kind of fiberglass hump on the stock hood to clear them... air ducting would be a problem too..

it would be hard as hell to make the viper PCM control the corvettes HUD, gauges, ect... your best bet might actually be to use the LS1/2 PCM, and with a custom crank trigger wheel, make it happen.... or get real friendly with a good embedded programmer and have him output a GM serial data stream from a megasquirt-ish device....

to do it nice, it would be very overpriced, with little gain, but ofcourse, anything is possible.
if you want to take out some of the coolness things, and "just get it running" its entirely possible.

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Mar 7, 2006 | 12:29 PM

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Talk about wiping out any and all handling the car would have had... That's a LOT of weight to be adding to the nose

Mar 7, 2006 | 12:36 PM

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Very interesting idea... but expensive and probably not so practical. Would make a nice show car for the Dodge guys though.

Mar 7, 2006 | 01:16 PM

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here is a picture of the only one ever done!

Mar 7, 2006 | 01:21 PM

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is it me or does that pic look photoshopped?? And yea its kinda pointless to go V10 when you have all the potential you need in a LS7.

Mar 7, 2006 | 01:35 PM

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That is photoshopped...nice try LANDONZ

(unless you weren't being serious about that)

Mar 7, 2006 | 02:02 PM

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I did a 5 minute 'chop WAY back when, of a Ford 5.0L in a 94 Camaro. Man, talk about people getting fired up

Mar 7, 2006 | 03:13 PM

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LOL brains...that would def. light a fire round here.!!!!

Mar 7, 2006 | 05:21 PM

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I love how the reaction is the same when someone has ideas like this. Go over to RX7 Club about a year ago when someone said hey I want to put a LS1 in a 93 RX7 people fliped out lol