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Chevrolet is making huge news today, revealing most all of the details about its new, fifth generation Small Block V8 engine dubbed LT1 the very mill that will power the upcoming 2014 Corvette. Note that we'll be updating this post all morning as the information keeps streaming in, so check back often.

Preliminary numbers suggest no less than 450 horsepower and 450 pound feet of torque.

The Corvette's new LT1 V8 engine is, no surprise here, set to make the car very competitive within its class. Preliminary numbers suggest no less than 450 horsepower and 450 pound feet of torque for the 6.2 liter engine, as well as an estimated 0 60 mile per hour time of less than 4.0 seconds when installed in the base C7. To put those numbers in perspective a bit: The LT1 not only has a far higher specific output than the 6.2 liter LS3 that it replaces up at least 20 hp and 26 lb ft but its torque is seemingly competitive with that of the 7.0 liter LS7 that lives in the heart of the current Corvette Z06.

With all that power and accelerative performance, Chevy engineers are still keeping fuel economy in mind with the help of cylinder deactivation, the new Corvette powerplant is expected to deliver more than 26 miles per gallon on the highway, though figures for city driving are still unknown. The new small block also benefits from the latest advanced engine tech like direct injection, continuously variable valve technology and a relatively high 11.5:1 compression ratio, all while coming in a claimed 40 pounds lighter and four inches shorter than the 4.4 liter twin turbo V8 by BMW. Chevy also notes that while premium fuel is recommended replica breitling Bentley 6.75, it is not required with the LT1. We're also told that a dry sump oil system is optional (a traditional wet sump unit is standard).

GM is calling the LT1 its most advanced combustion system ever. The company analyzed literally hundreds of systems to get to this final product, including crunching over 6 million hours of CPU time dedicated to combustion system optimization, and nearly 10 million hours when combustion, structure, cooling systems, lubrication and vent systems are factored in. In fact, the motor and its systems are so advanced that an academic SAE paper is being written to explain the whole shebang. The engine will also be built at the company's 75 year old Tonawanda plant, which happens to be where Chevy's original small block V8 was produced way back in 1955.

There is a load of detailed information from GM, in our gallery of slides from the presentation this morning. Please excuse the lowish quality of the images here we decided to err on quality in favor of bringing you all of the LT1 info we could, as fast as was possible.

UPDATE: Press release added below with more details.

Related GalleryLT1 Gen 5 Chevy Small Block V8

All New 2014 Corvette LT1 V 8 a Technological Powerhouse

Advanced technologies including direct injection, active fuel management, continuously variable valve timing support advanced combustion system

Preliminary output of 450 horsepower (335 kW) and 450 lb. ft.

The new Corvette LT1 engine, the first of the Gen 5 family of Small Block engines, combines several advanced technologies, including direct injection, Active Fuel Management and continuously variable valve timing to support an advanced combustion system.

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"What makes this engine truly special is the advanced combustion system that extracts the full potential of these technologies. The art and science behind that combustion system make the Corvette LT1 one of the most advanced V 8 engines in the world," said Barra.

Output, performance, and fuel economy numbers will not be finalized until early next year, but the new LT1 engine is expected to deliver:

The most powerful standard Corvette ever, with preliminary output of 450 horsepower (335 kW) and 450 lb. ft. of torque (610 Nm)

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"The Holy Grail for developing a performance car is delivering greater performance and more power with greater fuel economy and that's what we've achieved," said Tadge Juechter, Corvette chief engineer. "By leveraging technology, we are able to get more out of every drop of gasoline and because of that we expect the new Corvette will be the most fuel efficient 450 horsepower car on the market."

Advanced combustion system optimized with 6 million hours of analysis

"The Corvette LT1 represents the most significant redesign in the Small Block's nearly 60 year history building on its legacy to make one of the world's best engines even better," said Sam Winegarden, vice president, Global Powertrain Engineering. "More than just great horsepower, the LT1 has been optimized to produce a broader power band. Below 4,000 rpm, the torque of the Corvette LT1 is comparable to that of the legendary, 7.0L LS7 out of the current Corvette Z06. The LT1 is a sweetheart of a power plant and drivers will feel its tremendous torque and power at every notch on the tachometer."

Increased power and efficiency were made possible by an unprecedented level of analysis, including computational fluid dynamics, to optimize the combustion system, the direct injection fuel system, active fuel management and variable valve timing systems that support it. More than 10 million hours of computational analysis were conducted on the engine program, including 6 million hours (CPU time) dedicated to the advanced combustion system.

Direct injection is all new to the engine architecture and is a primary contributor to its greater combustion efficiency by ensuring a more complete burn of the fuel in the air fuel mixture. This is achieved by precisely controlling the mixture motion and fuel injection spray pattern. Direct injection also keeps the combustion chamber cooler http://www.asmallheaven.net/replica-a-lange-sohne-disocunt-uk.html, which allows for a higher compression ratio. Emissions are also reduced, particularly cold start hydrocarbon emissions, which are cut by about 25 percent.

Active Fuel Management (AFM) a first ever application on Corvette helps save fuel by imperceptibly shutting down half of the engine's cylinders in light load driving.

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So here we have a government that is flouting human rights laws by refusing to allow independent investigators into the jail, and has broken its word to the judiciary about plans to improve the treatment of mentally ill inmates. Remind us, what country are we living in? Russia? Must Amnesty International start a letter writing campaign or something? Or could our political leaders perhaps show a bit of decency replica breitling Avenger, and end this nonsense? The signs are not promising. To date, Justice Minister Mike Nixon appears to be too busy attending comic book conventions and flipping hamburgers to answer queries on the matter. So, it looks like this will be another Yukon Party scandal to eventually be settled by the courts. In the meantime, nothing gets better inside the jail. Its quite obvious from your post that you seem to find Canadian prisons comparable to their US counter parts. This is obvious in your transition from speaking about the Yukon to speaking about the US. 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And if you think so, then I would suggest that all individuals have a right to this same treatment and since at least 10% of the population reports depression I think we can safely assume a mental health personnel shortage. You cant force people to go into the field. So any reasonable person comes back to where we currently are if you request it treatment for serious mental illness is available (even in jail). I wonder if the workers at the social services office, income assistance office at black and third ever feel like they are in a jail. The walkway between the SS office and the green building on black has a fence on both ends with barbed wire at the top. This was supposed to be in place so street people could not go between the buildings to maybe find shelter there from the wind, to rest for a moment because they may urinate or drink there we were told by management, people for biased judgmental reasons. No compassion or caring from management at SS for the people who are less fortunate, those they are in serve to, those who keep YG people employed. Before the gates this never took place, no one went in there to drink or anything but there were dog feces from an office dog. Not people! Those gates create a potential death trap because they get stuck, jammed all the time, for years and have for years but SS doesn care, it ignored. We told everyone from director McDonnell to past managers, supervisors, Yukon Employees Union etc but no one listened. Safety was never a concern with no Safety Committee and the Union did nothing. Take a picture for the newspaper Yukon News and put it beside the group home on the WCC grounds along side the new prison. Barbed wire is a form of control, a tangible thing utilized by the YG. How come employees are being locked into the workplace? I like comments such as they are better off here than in others places as if comparing in attempting to justify makes it right. That line always get me in how can people think like that. It could be worse so be happy you have a tv. It like the old jail is another one. And officers take pride in rehabilitating prisoners to be better citizens They are jailers, not Counselors, clergy, psychologists or social workers. They hold the keys and monitor behaviors and dole out punishments and praises but that is not making prisoners better citizens. Prisoners just learn how to function in jails and prisons to appease their jailers. The change most times is not ingrained but more fear based and people becoming This is where the Justice system fails prisoners to become good citizens because society fails children, youth, families and the ill by not stopping crime before it starts. We are a reactionary society. In regard to mentally incapacitated, they go through the Justice system because mental health services in the Yukon is lacking big time and all over N. America. Society use to lock up people in mental institutions but now they are locked out of mental health services and locked up in jails and prisons. The mentally incapacitated fall through the cracks of the systems based on societies failure to give them the right help they need in cutting services like what is happening at H in the Yukon so consequently they end up in jails and prisons. prisons and jails are businesses and government is a big business in the Yukon. In the United States, the privatization of prisons brings jobs to cities and towns, jobs are created so jailing people can be profitable. It like keeping poor people poor, generationally poor which means the system sustains itself, it keeps government workers employed working in social assistance and family children services with a steady income while people, mostly the poor languish in foster care as children, in poverty, in the youth justice system and then in adult jails and prisons. investigation should be done in social services at black 3rd building human rights violations against people on welfare by this Paz government under the Dictator(typo). Human rights violations are very many with the welfare people afraid to talk in fear of not getting welfare if they do talk. Control out if fear of no welfare then they are hungry no place to live to be cut off welfare. Big debts welfare people are in to government like thousands of hundreds of thousands of thousands of dollars that will never be cleared by welfare people, it to high replica Breitling Transocean Chronograph, in debt to death while made poorer while living . Welfare people made poorer are suffering just audit financial an ask head of finance ann ask dictator(typo) where is money going in budgeting.? Where is it moved too for other programs like socially included office taking from poor to help poor? Treatments of people getting welfare if they are not liked is punishment in human rights That is human rights violation for some of us. No fair treatment, bias, prejudice and when Complaints made against people like supervisors nothing is ever done as kept hush hush silenced. Why do deputy minister mead an minister graham look away from dictator(typo)? SS keeps investigation out of doing audit but how can this be fore government to say no to government audit by dictator(typo). Independent is needed. Many questions but government refuse to answer to the people an taxpayers need to care about financial in government ann human rights problems because it could bee them someday who knows how life goes, it true like me. I never saw me to be poor but got injury so bad I lost my house then others things told to sell. All People could be poor before know it ann so sad. It could be you to. While I do agree that some inmates could use more in house psychiatric support, these inmates live way better than an inmate in any other provincial jail in canada. Are lucky enough to have their own cells with tv The corrections officers there take pride in being able to help rehabilite inmates in taking steps towards becoming better citizens. They show respect to inmates as they need to be shown respect in return. People like nehass put themselves in their own situations by being un cooperative. 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