C8 Corvette Lightweight Exhaust System Released By Hennessey: Video
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Hennessey Performance Engineering has big plans for the C8 Corvette. Last year, the company released details on the 1,200 horsepower twin-turbo tuning program it had planned for the car, but with the vehicle’s encrypted ECU still under lock and key, the company is currently limited in what modifications it can make to the car.
One of the modifications that Hennessey can make to the C8 Corvette without having to adjust the ECU is a new exhaust. The company has developed a lightweight stainless steel exhaust kit for the mid-engine sports car, which it says is lighter than the stock performance exhaust offered on the vehicle and also helps the 6.2L LT2 V8 breathe better and produce more power.
Hennessey’s C8 Corvette exhaust is made of 100% T304 stainless steel and retains the factory catalytic converters to ensure it remains 50-state emissions compliant. The company claims the exhaust is 10 pounds lighter than stock and also adds an extra 21 horsepower and 19 pound-feet of torque, pushing the output of the C8 Corvette to over 500 horsepower.
This exhaust was fitted to the C8 Corvette that Hennessey took to a record-breaking 205.1 mph at Continental Tire Proving Grounds in Uvalde, Texas last month. Most C8 Corvette owners won’t be attempting to take their vehicles up to or over 200 mph, but it’s always nice to know that it has been tested at those speeds, right?
Hennessey is offering lifetime warranty with the exhaust, but this is a nontransferable warranty, so it will only be valid for the original purchaser. The company plans on making just 1,000 units of the exhaust for all of 2020 and 2021, as well, so anyone who may be interested in the kit should act sooner rather than later. Prices start at a fairly steep $3,495.
Listen to the Hennessey exhaust for the C8 Corvette in the video embedded below.
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A 20+ units upgrade in HP and torque without voiding the warranty by just changing an exhaust, is appealing. The next question is whether a $3grand expense (as per eBay) is the right amount of money to pay for one. I have the feeling that will not be a big problem for the car crazy people among us..
This is purely a system to open the exhaust. The wonderful conversion by the factory of soft exhaust for driving into the neighborhood or HOA is gone. Well, by golly, that is a good deal of the 10 pound weight savings that is claimed. If you want a quality exhaust system, choose from Fab Speed or from Borla or any of a number of systems that retains the factory style valves. Choose Hennesy if you trust the organization after a prior disclosure on more than one vlog/magazine that Hennesy left a lot of customers in the lurch, taking their money according to those articles but giving them no product. This was not so true if you lived within 25 miles of Hennesy , but according to those other articles consisting of disgruntled employees, the further away from Hennesy you lived, the less likely it was to receive his products. Should any victim still be out there, it would be a #1 priority for Hennesy to return the money to customers that they are missing. A search of the Internet under Hennesy will provide the reader with more information on the “scams,” or whatever they were, plus quotes from people who worked for Hennesy can be read.
Still no turbo kit yet as the 205 mph C8 Corvette was done with NO2 injection and now this video about lightweight exhaust pipes for the car, one has to wonder what is Hennessey’s problem and whether we’ll ever see a kit with a C8 Corvette with either a supercharger or twin-turbo set up; Hennessey might be experiencing a black box issue with the C8 and the visions of a 1,000 hp C8 Corvette will need to come from Chevrolet.
It appears that it is really more about his past business practices which there has been no announcement that he will make good to those victims listed in the articles.
Ok but what about the afm and npp?
I also think Borla Atak sounds much better and has the above