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"This one is too late to stop. That’s almost finished. It’s in the final stages of tuning,” Bob Lutz, vice chairman in charge of product development.
Blue Devil is still on track, despite a gestation period that Lutz described as challenging, in acknowledging, for the first time, the car’s existence. “It’s a very difficult vehicle development. This thing has so much power that we have to explore a dynamic envelope that we’ve never explored before. We want the vehicle to be safe and we want it to be predictable, even at speeds that no mortal is ever going to attain in the United States. That’s our obligation. We’re really into a speed and power realm that General Motors has never been in before. We’re way up there with Porsche Carrera GTs and Ferraris.”

Lutz won’t talk engine details except to say the displacement of the new powertrain is greater than the pushrod 7.0-liter V-8 in the Z06.
In terms of horsepower, Lutz said: “We’re certainly not going to be at 600 because some of our competition is at 600. So, 600 is a number that is not satisfactory for us. I would say comfortably in excess of 600 is the way I would term it.” As for 700 horses, “that would be a stretch. Tom Stephens (GM’s head of powertrain) would say, ‘maybe in the second year.’”

As for torque expectations, Lutz said he really doesn’t know. “We’re obviously going to have to restrict it because otherwise you get nothing but wheelspin. So those are some of the problems, is how to get power to the ground.”
The product guru is not saying when the beast will bow publicly for the first time, but the expectation is early in the 2008 auto show circuit as we anticipate a 2009 model year designation for the limited run (1500-2000) built a year.
And it’s still anyone’s guess as to its name. While Lutz referred to it as the Blue Devil.

Given its lengthy development, and Lutz’s assertion it is proving “almost as tough as an all-new Corvette,” Blue Devil might be apropos by the time this $100,000-plus monster makes it to market.

 

I can't wait to drool over that one!!

I'm already in love with the z06 we all know and love

 

so i guess it wont be a SC'd 6.2L after all, it'll be nice to see a 427+ cu.in. small block from the factory, i wonder if it will use the LSX block as a base.

with him describing the z06 motor as a "PUSHROD 7.0L v8 " you dont think the blue devil's engine with be OHC do you?

yea putting around 650hp (purely guessing) to the ground through rwd would be challenging

 

I'm kinda thinking maybe an aluminum version of the LSX block maybe. They wouldnt put a cast iron block in a vette of that caliber. I seriously doubt it would be anything OHC. They just don't need it.

 

true i had forgotten the lsx was iron for a sec.

everything i had heard so far was a 650hp SC'd 6.2L but i guess not,

 

That's all i've heard as well. Also, I don't know where the info came from so take it as that.