Chevrolet’s 2020 Corvette Stingray is an impressive super car in its own right. With its atmospheric 6.2L V8 LT2 engine developing 495 horsepower and 470 pound-feet (637 Nm) of torque, it can propel the all-new Corvette from 0 to 60 miles per hour in under three second. But that’s only the beginning of the eight-generation Corvette story, as a significantly more powerful Corvette C8 Z06 is on the way.
According to a new report from Automobile, the upcoming Corvette C8 Z06 – the next step in the Corvette model hierarchy – will use a twin-turbo V8 making 800 horsepower (597 kW) and a torque figure “approaching or even surpassing” an afflictions 700 pound-feet (949 Nm). The publication states that the beastly Z06 is slated to be out in about two years’ time.
The report matches up to a GM Authority report from earlier this year, where we stated that the mid-engine Corvette C8 Z06 will be powered by a twin-turbo V8 DOHC known internally as the LT7. The aforementioned Automobile story mentions the engine, but does not touch on its displacement, which GM Authority has previously heard will be 5.5 liters, while also being based on the twin-turbo 4.2L V8 LTA DOHC – also known as the Blackwing engine. This motor is currently offered in the Cadillac CT6-V, where it maxes out at 550 horsepower (410 kW) and 627 pound-feet of torque.
| Model | Engine | Configuration | Aspiration | Horsepower | Torque |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corvette C7 Stingray | 6.2L V8 LT1 | OHV | Atmospheric | 460 | 465 |
| Corvette C7 Z06 | 6.2L V8 LT4 | OHV | Supercharged | 650 | 650 |
| Corvettte C7 ZR1 | 6.2L V8 LT5 | OHV | Supercharged | 755 | 715 |
| Corvette C8 Stingray | 6.2L V8 LT2 | OHV | Atmospheric | 495 | 470 |
| Corvette C8 Z06 (rumored) | 5.5L V8 LT7 | DOHC | Twin-Turbo | 800 | 700 |
| Cadillac CT6-V Blackwing V8 | 4.2L V8 LTA | DOHC | Twin-Turbo | 550 | 627 |
In any event, the rumored 800 horsepower and 700 pound-feet of torque will make for the more powerful Corvette in history. By comparison, the outgoing C7 Corvette Z06 makes “only” 650 horsepower (485 kW) and 650 pound-feet (479 Nm) of torque, while the C7 Corvette ZR1 offers up 755 horses and 715 pound-feet.
A leaked view of the rumored LT7 engine
With those kinds of specs, we can only imagine the 0-60 mph figure for the Corvette C8 Z06. Meanwhile, we should also expect the beastly C8 to have all kinds of other upgrades, including more aggressive treatments for the body and for the Magnetic Ride Control dampers.
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Source: Automobile
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Was there a rumored DOHC 6.2 here about a year ago? I know that is a big engine I just thought I seen an article about it.
But anyways with 800 horses I don’t see this car have a problem getting in the 2 second range, probably sub 2 (1.9) if it could hook up all that power which I know it could.
This car will be a supercar Slayer. All those $200,000 + cars already have a run for their money. Thank you for making this happen GM.
I have a question. For all that like 800 HP, where do you intend to use that much power? I hope not on I-10 or 0 to 60 in down town Baton Rouge. The track is the place to go. Let’s buy it and go to the track of your choice at lest twice a month. LOL
Just because you live in the swamp doesn’t mean you understand what people who actually go to the track and closed roads. Your obviously not going to go 0-60 in rapid take off every red light. And there are different drive modes, so your not going to burn rubber everytime you hit the gas.
Sunday Sunday Sunday!!! That’s my track day !!! Not on the way to Walmart !!!
I thought that might get a rise out of a few people. I love it!!!
Lol, if you wish, but your question appears more of a statement than question. Where do all those with 400+hp go now? Yes, some the track or strip but many still cruise the street, still, as it has been for DECADES. Whether that is prudent is their call while many may disagree. Don’t like it? Stay off the main drags/streets/boulevards where you WILL encounter 1000+hp Z06’s, ZL1’s, Demon’s, Redeye’s, GT’s, GT 350’s, GT 500’s, etc… besides all the “other” sharks out there. If you think otherwise, your deluded. Oh…don’t forget ALL the imports from EVERYWHERE that want to eat a domestics lunch, and make you pay for it. Just do a search on youtube to see all the threats and many are not even track machines where rolling start freeway/highway races rule. Illegal? Yes. Really happening, real time? Yes. Oh….LOL…
You can bet that Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini and McLaren were all very concern when the C8 was first launch.
This news however, will make many of these other supercar manufacturers even more nervous for sure.
All of those manufacturers are intimidated by a Camaro ZL1 1LE with tweaks and tune ! Hopefully the C8 can intimidate me and my 200 mph ZL1. I can’t wait for that track day !!!!!
I want c8 to haul A$$ and handle like it’s on rails, $180K + my 2018 ZL1 6.2 LT4 with tweak and tune is a tough one to beat on track day , with only $80K in to it, for the money I’m going to wait till get the bugs out and refine c8 before spending $200K +
“BANG FOR THE BUCK” just got dialed up to 11…12?
And the next two, ZR1, and (Zora?) will be hands down the best cars in and above their classes!
Playing the lottery is not working. Time to rob a bank or fake an injury so I can sue someone in order to get one of these monsters. 🙂
I can see AWD coming to it then shortly afterwards.
I would love an AWD electrified version.
Each generation’s Z06 has been at least as powerful as the most powerful model of the previous generation…C5 Z06 @ 405hp = C4 ZR1 @ 405hp; C6 Z06 @ 505hp > 405hp C5; C7 Z06 @ 650hp > 638hp C6 ZR1. It only makes sense that the C8 Z06 will make more than the C7 ZR1’s 755hp. 800hp is a nice number.
First world problems…
If the z06 engine is going to be twin turbo it should make more than 700 torque…the blackwing engine makes 1.14 lb.ft of torque per horsepower so should be closer to 900 torque
Two years is perfect timing
I still doubt a 5.5 will happen. 4.2L but flip the heads for a cool V design. The C8R sounded like it had a flat plane crank. May not make it to production.
An easy 750 hp with BW EFR turbos. It won’t be a high revver. 7k max.
800 hp might be the output.. but Cadillac president Steve Carlisle firmly stated “Over my dead body.” in response to a question whether the C8 Corvette would get the Blackwing V8; thus, the 2021-2022 C8 Corvette Z06 may be a twin-turbocharged 6.2L V8 which should take the Corvette to feature a top speed of over 210 mph.
What I anticipate is a TTV8 that may be based on the Cadillac but it will be totally different.
It may share some base architecture but it will a totally upgraded and different engine.
Stronger block, different heads, flat crank, more displacement, different intake and turbo set up. Nothing between this engine and the Blackwing will interchange.
Remember this is not the top power number yet just the next step.
Steve Carlisle was referring to a 4.2TT Blackwing. Anything outside of that configuration, even if drawn off the same platform, is technically not a “Blackwing”. Just like a 6.2SC in a ZR1 is technically not a 5.3L in a Tahoe, though they are engineered by the same team from the same base design. So Mr. Carlisle’s body can continue on breathing as planned.
Better example is the Camaro and CTS are Alpha platforms but both are completely different cars.
With AWD, the C8 Z06 will hook hard enough to pull even the most stubborn front-engine Corvette purist out of the mud.
Would the ZO6 have AWD or would just the ZR1 have it? Or would it be a option on the ZR1.
Let them get the drivetrain RWD, figured out, still to early .
I’m going to have a lot more fun with my ’17 Grand Sport for the next few years, then get ready for a C8 Z06. This thing is going to be NUTZ!!!
It is not early as there is a host of plans already in process for this car and platform.
Time to stop worrying about trivial things like 0-60 and top speed. The real deal here is the complete package this car will deliver.
The speed of the gear box and steering will be unlike what we have ever seen in a Corvette.
Not only do we have the engine in back but the driver is farther forward and will feel the movement of the car much more.
I can see many have not yet understood how much this car has changed yet. This change is far beyond what any Corvette has ever seen and that is just from a handling dynamic. Then add in the many other features and it is staggering.
I am buying C8 as a road car! No drag racing, go around the track or doing burnout with it! But the ZO6 is even better road car with twin turbos in it!
Has anybody hear anything what the insurance will cost for the C8? At any trim level?
Ck with Hagerty ins. If you can call your own ins. Co.
As many here have posted, I’m excited for the C8 and eventually the Z06 variant. What I believe is going to be cool in the short term will be what the aftermarket does and you know they are chomping at the bit to get started. The C8 at the hands of Hennessey, Callaway, Lingenfelter, etc., is going to be wild. Never mind the widebody kits and rims, Forgiato comes to mind.
No need to wait with baited breath for the Z06, which I’m sure will be awesome, ’cause modded base and Z51 ‘vettes are a comin’ and, THAT, I can’t wait for, lol. SEMA is going to be incredible when the C8’s take over. As for TT’s, I’m a huge proponent and as long as it spanks the Ferrari 488GTB’s, Pista’s and all Porsche 911 series for a lot less $$, It’s exciting.
On a side note, with the C8.R GLTM coming, IMSA is finally about to get competitive again! Sorry ford, porsche. Not….
The BAP will keep it equal with the other cars as the C7R is still competitive today. So do not expect dominance other than the series letting them have an advantage. Right now the 911 has been given the advantage.
Pratt and. Iller will win many races and Championships with this car but never forget the BAP that will limit them.
I don’t like it either but BAP is what keeps all the MFGs involved and cost down.
That is a bunch of garbage!!! Then they might as well do away with the series.
Brian if you have one and only one dominate model then you will do away with it. There is a long history of this in the past in IMSA and SCCA.
With cost being high they have to keep it so everyone has skin in the game. Companies race for marketing and they all want to look good.
If you go to pure racing it runs up cost to where MFG’s go away and then you are left with no series and no cars.
BAP is not perfect but it is the only solution outside the NASCAR solution that is all the cars are the same with badly matched bodies to the real street car.
In the past the pure racing format worked but with technology and money today it has run the cost to where companies will not spend $100 million dollars for marketing they could do else where for one tenth of that.
I know you will reply with a snotty response but sorry that is how the real world works today like it or not.
F1 even today is looking to cutting cost. Outlaw sprints used to be run what ever you brung till the cost started to kill the fields. Can Am died because of this, GTP died because of this, Trans Am died several times because of this and are no longer stock based. SCCA Showroom stock died because of this. Just the way it is. Racing is a buisness and you have to justify the costs.
I’ve been following the Corvette Racing team since the C5.R and I’m quite familiar with the BoP. The last race was won by Porsche in a 1-2 finish followed by the 2 C7.R’s in 3-4 then Ford GT 5-6 followed by BMW in 7-8. The BoP is an honest attempt to “level the playing field” but personally I find it BS as it never seems to do just that. The finish I just mentioned proves it. If it did the field would not finish like this and be more distributed/mixed among manufacturers, not clumped together. While IMSA makes an honest effort it never works out as shown by the Porsche RSR’s this season now being true mid-engined and not rear engined cars. IMHO, it should be wide open with no BoP. Don’t like how your season is going? Bring a better/hotter production based car. Displacement limited based on N/A or power adder, power unlimited based on what your chassis and the track will tolerate. Think the Blackwing 4.2TT is badass?? Check this out even though it’s a race engine. 260ci/4.26L TT, imagine in a C8.R
Take your chances. It only really becomes fair/competitive when there are NO limits to any teams ingenuity as $$ is really no issue.
BOP is a ever changing balance that the series tried to enact. No it is never perfect as often teams will sand bag. Penske just got caught useing codes for lap times to pace the cars in the prototype class.
They just changed the BOP in the GT classes and the BMW and Ford were both hit. It has helped the Corvette but the 911 still holds an advantage. But then again they 911 has had some down years too.
What comes around goes around.
Like it or not the Corvette would not have been competitive the last few years if not for the BOP and Chevy more than likely would have left the series.
Like stated BOP is not perfect but it is the best thing we have. If mfgs were left on their own there would be no series.
IMSA needs MFGs as they can not survive on privateer racers only.
The old joke in IMSA was how do you make a million dollars raving in IMSA. You start with 10 Million dollars.
It also is why back in the day several private race team owers were busted for drug trafficing. It was the only way to pay the bills. the old Whittington 935 still has a hidden compartment where they stashed drugs in the car when they moved about the country.
Around 1985 IMSA was strong and by the early 90’s the MFG’s were pulling out. It changed to the ALMS series for a while till the MFG’s pulled out again. IMSA came back and has thrived with the BOP game.
Wishing for no limits is great but not reality. No corperations and MFGs no money and then no race series.
Then can the series!!! If they need BOP to keep cost down then send it to the gravesite. It’s not worth keeping around if your going to have people determining the outcome of the races.
Races are won in the offseason. When cars are being developed and the improvements are planned.
If you build a better car during the off season and you are clearly better then the competition then so be it!!!
I am tired of hearing about cost if you can’t afford it then move on. But to have a series that penaltizes a team or manufacture because they are too good is a joke!!!
But I dont personally think it has to do with money, I think it has to do with feelings and egos getting hurt. Just like they want every kid to get a trophy for competing, they want every team to stay close to each other so that every team can find their way to victory lane that season.
We teach our kids to be weak minded and they become weak minded adults!!! Not being able to put up with not being as good as the next guy. So they level the playing field to make things even. Its sad!!!
Make the cars and drivers stand on their own based on performance. And if one car is better then so be it!!!
Sorry but this is the real world and not Fantasy Island. Brian like it or not it is all about the money anymore no matter if you run the race team, You sponsor, the Series owner or if you are the MFG.
This is buisness not sport anymore and it is all about cost, ratings and results.
what you propose would kill nearly ever race series out there. Sorry it is not 1955 anymore.
When F1 is looking at cutting cost you should learn something from that move.
There are no feelings or egos in racing anymore it is all buisness. They want return on the investment and if they don’t get the marketing they need they go else where.
Pure racing went away long before you were born.
The only place for ego and feelings in racing is the Pinewood Derby.