Corvette Horsepower Modified
When the c7 corvette was introduced in 2013 john hennessey drove their modified vette with 700 hp to a top speed of 200 6 mph on a newly built texas toll road the grand parkway near houston.
Corvette horsepower modified. Fast forward to 2020 and the introduction of the all new mid engine c8 corvette. From the latest chevrolet infotainment 3 system with 8 inch diagonal color touch screen to the ingenious available front lift every feature was included to improve your drive. Uvalde sealy texas may 18 2020 the team at hennessey performance engineering hpe has a long history of testing their cars to over 200 mph. Building headers is a science but if done right they make a huge performance difference.
Fast forward to 2020 and the introduction of the. The gxe boasts 800 horsepower which is 45 hp more than the 2019 corvette zr1 the most powerful production corvette ever. Hennessey has designs on giving the 2020 chevrolet corvette much more performance than it has from the factory. Stock exhaust usually robs horsepower from the engine because of excessive backpressure.
In the early nineties chevrolet introduced the lt1 which boasted a respectable 300 horsepower in 1997 the lt1 was replaced with the ls1 and bumped the horsepower up to 345. Modified engines require higher volumes of air and fuel to make horsepower. Headers are designed to minimize backpressure and improve the flow of exiting exhaust gases. When the c7 corvette was introduced in 2013 john hennessey drove their modified vette with 700 hp to a top speed of 200 6 mph on a newly built texas toll road the grand parkway near houston.
By 2005 with the introduction of the ls2 even the base model corvettes were pushing north of 400 horsepower. 1958 59 corvette horsepower 283 small block base single four barrel version now making 230 horsepower dual quad versions were rated at 245 and 270 horsepower and the fuelie engines now made either 250 or 290 horsepower. The texas based company says it plans to offer a 1 200 horsepower version of the c8. The gxe set the previous record of 210 2 in september 2019.
High horsepower dyno videos are always fun to watch and this clip featuring a twin turbo corvette z06 is no exception. It s so powerful it even manages to generate some wheelspin mid pull.