News & Projects
Corvette C6 Z06 with turbo and a Powerglide
Vette Lab didn’t do this installation originally, but we have been
helping the client with his powertrain calibration. It’s an unusual one —
there’s a 100mm turbocharger under the hood, and the whole thing is
coupled to a Powerglide automatic . Simple, and brutally effective.
Jan 6th 2019
2019 Corvette ZR1 dyno test
We had a 2019 Corvette ZR1 visit Vette Lab back at the end of
September, and we were able to get it on our shop dyno to get a baseline
reading. The results were…not quite what we expected. The supercharged
6.2-liter V8 is rated at 755 horsepower, and GM engineers confidently
claimed 640 at the wheels was what the car should produce. In the end,
the car made right around 607 whp. Granted, that’s lower than GM wanted
us to see, but it is almost exactly 20 percent off the published
ho
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Oct 16th 2018