The C8 Corvette offers a long list of customization options, from paint and interior color combos, to stripes and hash marks, to wheels and performance upgrades. Now, one aftermarket company is offering something a bit unexpected – fake velocity stacks for the Corvette’s naturally aspirated 6.2L V8 LT2 engine.
Developed by Custom Cre8ions out of Golden Valley, Minnesota, the fake C8 Corvette velocity stacks are designed to add a custom touch to the new Vette’s engine bay, mimicking classic sports machines like the original Ford GT40.
For those who may be unaware, high-performance engines can utilize real velocity stacks to smoothly and efficiently guide air into the engine, as well as enable tuners to optimize the intake. However, this new component from Custom Cre8ions is not a real set of functioning velocity stacks. Rather, it’s little more than an engine cover designed to make the C8 Corvette look like it’s running velocity stacks.
It ain’t cheap either. Per the Custom Cre8ions website, pricing for one of these covers is set at $1,500, half of which is required upfront as a down payment, with the remainder due once the product is ready to ship. Custom Cre8ions says the product will be available to ship in February of 2021.
Luckily, installation is simple, requiring just four bolts, and clip, and five minutes to put into place. The product can also be painted to match the customer’s C8 Corvette, if desired.
While we’d love to see someone develop a real individual throttle body and velocity stack setup for the C8 Corvette, this engine cover at least gives us an idea what such a setup could potentially look like.
As a reminder, the C8 Corvette produces 495 horsepower at 6,450 rpm and 470 pound-feet of torque at 5,150 rpm when equipped with the optional factory performance exhaust system. Output is routed exclusively to the rear wheels by way of the M1L eight-speed dual-clutch transmission.
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Source: Custom Cre8ions
Comments
Uhmmm…. no. Just… no.
Oh, good grief……………..
Wow! Now if only someone made brake calipers covers…….
When will the cowl-induction hood be available? 🙄
Yes I want to see a massive hood scoop and maybe even a fake blower like in Mad Max
Good luck dood. If there is actually a market for these, someone will make them and charge an appropriate $99 or maybe $199 if it’s made of high end materials.
Docking soon on a slow boat near you. I’m sure China already has the CAD models.
Silly, but at least they’re nicely done. They need some fake injectors and hoses to complete the look. Then maybe they can add a big fake magneto at the back. I’ll pass, though.
Maybe a fake throttle linkage with an actuator tied into the CAN bus, so it can mimic actual throttle position. Gotta make this right…
I like them.
PPhhh, what a waste. Corvette owners don’t put that Cal Custom kind of crap on their cars. Good luck selling very many of these. Might look good on a soap box derby car.
…hmmm, they might actually be functional: to catch the rain and soapy water that leaks onto the engine from the vents in the ‘vanity’ window.
Don’t be a schmuck, just buy the convertible with the engine cover that doesn’t leak…
The 2020 version of a fart tube on a 1990 Civic.
Hybrids have a noise maker for speeds below 22 mph or some such. I’m trying to talk MoPar Perfornsnce into making one for the Pacifica that sounds like the 392 Hemi from a 50s 300C.
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Reminds me of the mid 80’s Pro Street show boats that would gut a 671 blower housing to cover a single 4bbl carb pretty much the same principal 😊 at that price don’t think they’ll sell to many
Actually a real set up would be very noisy. I had one once. But today the injectors are in the head so really pointless.
But I have seen so much worse done to Corvettes over the years.
It is an interesting look but it will never be functional on a stock engine
… but can’t you just here the guy in the parking lot telling some innocent “yep, got me some twin updraft Webers under there, picked up a hundred horse, easy”…🤣
…yup, until the guy looks in the cups and sees they’re full of water from the leaky vented vanity window.
Don’t be a jerk – just buy the ‘vert…
J C Whitney i presume.
Exactly what I was thinking. RIP, J.C. Whitney.
Dumb and Dumber , no fake parts for me. No thanks!
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Why stop there. Design a clear Frunk cover and put one of these in there as well for the look of two engines.