If you own a C8 Corvette Stingray in need of a serious power bump, then Lingenfelter has you covered. The tuner just launched its new Stage 3 supercharger package, which takes the Stingray’s V8 engine to atmospheric new heights thanks to a neck-snapping 13 psi of boost. Now, Lingenfelter is detailing the new supercharger package in a brief six-minute video.
Let’s jump straight into the specs – Lingenfelter’s Stage 3 package features a Magnuson Magnum DI TSV2650 supercharger, which boosts the 6.2L V8 LT2 engine to an impressive 850 horsepower and 775 pound-feet of torque at the flywheel. For reference, the stock LT2 is rated at 490 horsepower and 465 pound-feet of torque.
To handle the extra pressure, the Stage 3 package includes forged rods and pistons, an upgraded Lingenfelter GT 35-8 camshaft, upgraded cylinder heads, new valve springs, new push rods, high-flow fuel injectors, and a new high-pressure Big Bore direct injection fuel pump. The system also runs the factory engine control module (ECM), which is calibrated using the tuner’s C-Cal process.
Suggested upgrades include new breathing mods like a high-performance intake, exhaust, and headers, as well as upgraded brakes and axles.
To manage the extra torque, the Corvettes featured in the video are equipped with Dodson Sportsman clutches, which provide more clamping force and are better suited for high-horsepower builds compared to the factory setup. Lingenfelter states that the Stage 3 package can reach 1,000 horsepower at the flywheel (850 horsepower at the wheels) with the boost turned up, but at that level, air inlet restrictions start to become an issue.
According to the Lingenfelter website, the new C8 Corvette Stage 3 Supercharger Package is priced at $56,995 installed – not exactly cheap, but as they say, “speed costs money – how fast do you want to go?” The package also includes a three-year / 36,000-mile supercharger warranty.
Check out the full supercharger package reveal video right here:
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So I realize that the C8 is a mid-engine car, but $57K installed for the supercharger kit sounds down right “highway robbery” when a supercharger on a C6, C7 Vette was around $10K tuned and all?? Am I missing something here/!?
….only if you have to sit at work and home forever to pay for it!!??!
It does say the Stage 3 – there are other options from them that do not require internal parts being replaced like pistons and rods. Stage 1 or 2. They might have a package as low as $30,000, but maybe a Z06 makes more sense. I am curious if this changes the RPM range, it is still a pushrod engine.
So for the price of the original base car you can have good performance, or may get Z06… Or an Eray. Basically a replacement engine with internals being replaced.
Hard to figure out what exactly is a part of the “kit”. If it includes the blower, a forged bottom end, heads, cam, completely upgraded fuel system, rebuilt transmission with better parts, upgraded axles, intake, full exhaust, and a warranty on everything, that sounds like a pretty good deal. However, it sounds like the warranty is only on the blower. So, you are spending Z06 money with probably better than Z06 performance. I may have missed it, but I assume that the intercooler(s) are in the front grill. I also assume that the horsepower numbers are using 93 octane, but I might have missed that as well. If you aren’t going to keep this thing, one wonders what sort of the return the Z06 money gets you in the used market even with the Lingenfelter name. It’s something of a sleeper, but I think I’d buy the Z06 and its resale value and suffer the performance deficit with a full factory warranty.
Yeah, I agree. I guess, if one wants to make their car special in some way, and/or/but if you’re not regularly racing someone with something that costs 2-3 times as much, bone stock is pretty nice!
Does Lingenfelter race any of their engines in IMSA, WEC or Trans Am? I’d feel better about these guys as an aftermarket supplier / builder if race teams actually paid Lingenfelter for their engines to compete in one of these series.
Did anyone watch the video? The C8 sounds like ass! It’s whining like a belt slipping or a pulley failing. I would be extremely upset if I dropped $57 grand and my Corvette sounds like the example in the video.