LivernoisMotorsports

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We here at Livernois Motorsports wanted to share something with the message boards that we've been holding on to for a number of months now…. While others have just now started to get vehicles in hand, we have been doing something much more in depth, we have been doing R&D on the new Gen5/LT series of engines. We can't quite tell you exactly what specific items we are working on making for it, but we can say that the future looks very bright for this engine family, and it's power potential. In addition to the engines we have at our disposal, we also have a 5.3L Silverado that we have already baseline dyno'd and have been starting to work out an improved calibration as we speak.

For you Corvette lovers in our fan base, we haven't forgotten about you. We do have a 2014 Arctic White Z51 on order with the 7-speed manual that we should be seeing sometime in the near future. But, for the impatient among us we already have a 6.2 engine to play with to keep us busy. We are definitely excited about tearing into the car and seeing how far we can take it based off of what we have already learned from the engine alone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZLG6...ature=youtu.be

LivernoisMotorsports

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Well Dan just finished up tuning the truck and these are the results!

Green=baseline 87 octane
Red= 87 performance
Blue= 93 performance
Remember this is a bone stock engine, only things changed were the tune and fuel!

Blackpanther99

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Those are nice results.

LSWONGTO

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Nice!!

kainedogg

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Looking forward to seeing more...soon.

Skypilot797

Just wondering if any internal parts, i.e. crank, rods, are forged? If not, any estimated safe horsepower figures the LT1 might be good for?

Am wondering, as when my C7 gets in, I would like to add a small blower cam, headers and supercharger....maybe 7-10 psi.... and see around 650-700 crank plus horsepower.

Is the crank the same as any of the other LS engines? Rods?

Thanks.

LivernoisMotorsports

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Rods are powdered metal, pistons are forged eutectic, crankshaft forged

I would think that the crankshaft is quite strong, the rod probably decently strong, and the piston probably the weakest link.

Almost every LT1 part is different than the previous gen LS engines. -Chris

Skypilot797

Thanks!!

LivernoisMotorsports

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No problem sir! -Chris

tangerine_sky

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What tuning software and hardware are you using on these direct inject motors?

Toxic-Evo

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in for E85 tune please.......

ZV8

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yea E85 would be cool, but are bigger injectors available for these yet. What do they use?

rumblebox

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that's what im wondering, since people were making a big deal about how untunable they would be.

midnightbluS10

How much stronger are forged hypereutectic pistons over cast ones?

black01_WS6

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Any updates on the truck?

LivernoisMotorsports

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The truck was really only here for some testing on the calibration software before we got our C7 in. The C7 is where all the fun happened at, but we did just get a 2015 tahoe for a shop vehicle, so stay tuned for that!