What's Wrong With a Little Extra //

Vette fans are going to be pleased with this one. The 2009 ZR1 Corvette, slated for release late this summer, will be pumping out 638bhp and 604ft/lbs of torque! Adding a little icing to the Corvette cake, the projects chief engineer Tadge Juechter proclaimed in a GM blog posting, that the ZR1 had hit 205mph at their testing track in Papenburg Germany. The 6.2L LS9 V-8 stuffed under the hood, of what very well may be the fastest US production car, was intended to produce 100bhp per liter of displacement. General Motors has out done themselves apparently. Eaton, famous for their superchargers, helped develop the roots type blower that takes this small block beyond the limits of streetable horsepower. The new LS9 is being produced in a small GM factory in Wixom Michigan, where its predecessor the LS7 was being manufactured. Real world numbers are not yet available in regards to the Corvette itself but with 638 horses pushing the thing, our imaginations can run with that for a while.