We Ranked the Best Chevy V8 Engines Ever

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V8 engines are nearly synonymous with  American-made cars and Chevrolet happens to   be one of the few remaining American automobile  powerhouses. Chevy has been using V8 engines in   their cars and trucks since as early as 1917,  although we didn't see the now famed small   block engine until the 1950s. From now until  then, Chevrolet has produced a ton of different   V8 engines: some for cars, some for trucks, some  for SUVs, some for super cars. You get the point,   they've made a lot of different engines.  With that in mind, it's time we take a deep   dive into the world of Chevy V8 engines and  figure out which ones are actually the best. Please keep in mind that the list that we are  about to go into is not sorted at any particular   order. And realistically there's probably anywhere  from 15 to 30 engines that you could put on this   list, as far as just straight up Chevy V8 engines.  So, some of them got left out, the list had to be   condensed down. So, some engines are missing.  And before we start the video, be sure to drop   a comment down below let me know what do you guys  think is better: the GM LS or the Ford Coyote? We   have that video coming up soon, so I'm curious  to hear your thoughts, drop them down there. And   what a more fitting place to start out the entire  list then all the way back in 1917. We had Woodrow   Wilson in charge of running the entire US, we got  involved in World War one, and Chevy introduced   their new series D cars. The series came in two  body styles: a four-door five passenger sedan   and a two-door four passenger Roadster, but we're  not here to talk about the Series D car itself,   but rather the engine under the hood known as the  Series D V8 which was a new engine developed by   Chevy that was supposed to offer them a lot  more performance, a lot more reliability,   and just really thrust them into the lead as  far as American powerhouse automobile company.   This was a small buy today's standards 4.7 liter  engine and it was Chevy's first ever V8. Hell,   it was one of the first overhead valve V8 engines.  The design of this engine has a lot of weird stuff   that we haven't seen in the modern age, including  a partially exposed valve drain, nickel plated   rocker covers, a gear driven generator for the  distributor, the starter in the valley of the   block, and much more. Plain and simple, it was  and is kind of a goofy engine. But, that's to   be expected for their first ever V8 engine.  All in, this engine output an unbelievable,   earth-shattering, 36 horsepower at 2700 RPM.  Thank God for innovation because the 36 horsepower   Camaro sounds pretty terrible. Unfortunately  though, this engine had a pretty short life   from 1917 to 1918 as they stopped production of  the Series D car and ultimately the engine, and   we didn't see another V8 engine from them until 37  years later. Speaking of which, the 265 cubic inch   first generation Chevy small block is the next  engine on the list. Actually, let's just look   at the first gen small block as a whole for this.  Now obviously, this includes a range of different   engines, whether it's the 265 or the 283 that  powered Chevy through the 1950s and the 1960s,   or the 305 and 350 motors that dominated street  performance in the 1980s. Regardless if you're a   fan of small block engines or not, it's really  hard to overstate their importance to not just   Chevy, but for American cars as a whole. Plain  and simple, the Chevy small block is undeniably   one of the most important engines in all of  automotive history and especially for Chevy.   It set the tone for what Chevy was about,  what they wanted to do with their future,   what their cars were capable of, and a lot more.  And really, it laid the ground work for everything   to come after it. And while today's V8s are  rather obviously a pretty big departure from   the first generation small block, it's because of  the small block engine that we have today's LS and   LT engines. The small block was a revolution in  terms of power, simplicity, ease of maintenance,   reliability, parts interchangeability, and so  much more. Dozens of first generation small block   variants range from mild to wild with horsepower  approaching upwards of 400 in the early 1970s. As   electronic fuel injection entered the picture  in the 1980s it became a common feature in   performance models like the Camaro and Corvette,  as well as the later TBI applications in trucks   and vans. And while I'm not a big fan of TBI small  block engines, again, it laid the groundwork for   much better engines to be developed. All right,  enough with small blocks. Yes they're interesting,   yes they are very important to Chevy's history  and all of automotive history, but they're kind of   boring unless you look at very specific variants,  so let's look at something a little bit bigger,   a little bit hotter, and a little bit spicier, and  that's the LS6. And no we're not talking about the   LS6 that's the hopped up version of the LS1 found  in the c5 z06 and CTS-V, but rather the older 454   cubic inch LS6 that is arguably the absolute peak  of all big block engines from GM. When the LS6 454   was first offered by Chevy in their 1970 catalog,  it was intended to rule the streets by building on   the same mark IV design architecture that we saw  with the 427 V8 that came before it. And by doing   so, the LS6 454 maintains the 427's 4.25 inch bore  but it increased the stroke to four inches and was   offered to the general public in two distinct  versions. There was the more entry-level, entry   friendly 360 horsepower LS5 that you could find  in full-sized cars like the Capri and Chevelle   when equipped with the right packages, but we're  not here to look at the entry level engine. The   bigger and the nastier LS6 could be optioned in  the Chevelle and the El Camino SS 454 cars with   RPO code Z15/LS6, although it certainly wasn't  a cheap option which is partially what makes it   so rare. And you might be wondering, well then  what separates the LS6 from the LS5? And it's   actually a couple of different things. For one,  the compression ratio was increased to 11.25:1 and   its cast iron rectangular port heads feature 2.19  inch intake valves and 1.88 inch exhaust valves.   It also featured a solid lifter camshaft versus  the hydraulic lifters on the LS5 with a 0.520   lift and 316 degree duration. Combine all of that,  with the improved intake manifold, forged pistons,   and ginormous 800 CFM carburetor, and you end  up with an absolutely nasty combo making tons   of power and even more torque, to the tune of 450  horsepower and 500 pound-feet of torque, although,   it is rumored that Chevy underadvertised the  power that this engine was actually outputting in   order to keep insurance companies happy and keep  insurance premiums low for their buyers. I think   it is worth noting that the Corvette could also be  had with the 454 LS6, but not until 1971, and by   then the EPA had come knocking, so the Corvette's  engine had the power decreased to 425 horsepower,   but it also got the addition of aluminum cylinder  heads rather than iron, saving about 50 pounds of   weight. As you probably know, GM then reused the  name much much later on. We have the LS6 which   was found in the C5 Z06 as well as the CTS-V and  it's more or less just a hopped up version of the   LS1. As to why GM reuses their names all over the  place, I genuinely have no idea, but the LS6 454   and the LS6, the modern one, share absolutely  nothing in common other than the name and the   fact that they were available for a relatively  short time in very select applications. Now,   the next big block engine that we're going to look  at is from nearly the exact same time frame as   the LS6 454 and that's the zl1 427. At this point,  Chevy had a history of powerful engines that ruled   stoplight to stoplight racing and drag racing.  These are engines like the l78, L88, l89, and so   on. But, the most brutal of them all, the nastiest  most powerful engine, was the ZL1. This engine was   born when a gentleman named Jim Hall began using  all-aluminum 427 cubic inch engines in a Chaparral   Can-Am race cars, which saw great success, and  then caught the attention of Fred Gibb who was   a Chevy dealer in Kansas City, and Dick Harrell  who had previously worked with Gibb to build   drag and street cars. At this time Chevy, had a  central office program which allowed dealers to   order cars that normally would not be available,  so a mix of different options that normally would   not be put together or available at all, for that  particular car, then the dealer would submit that   order to GM, it would go through their central  office production order, also known as COPO, and   then if it was approved, it would become a car.  In 1968, Fred Gibb ordered 50 1968 L78 Novas under   the COPO program with M40 automatic transmissions  in place of the usual four-speed gearbox. This was   the first time Chevy had ever placed an auto trans  behind a solid lifter engine for a production car,   and by building 50 of these, the Nova was  qualified to race with an automatic as per   the NHRA rules. Fred Gibbs then chose to apply the  same strategy to the 1969 Camaro. He did this even   while knowing Chevy was planning to release an  all-aluminum version of the 427 L88 engine. The   engine was designated ZL1 and had been planned for  the Corvette. Compared to the L88, the ZL1 had a   number of very important changes and parts that  allowed it to make quite a bit more power and do   so reliably. In the end, the ZL1 engine was rated  at 430 horsepower and 450 pound-feet of torque,   but later dyno testing of the factory ZL1 engines  revealed its output was quite a bit more, in the   550 horsepower range. Between GM, Fred Gibb, and  Dick Harrell, they developed COPO package in 9650,   which placed the ZL1 engine in the 1969 Camaro  to qualify it for the 1969 NHRA season. With a   massive 150 pound weight savings out of the ZL1,  it was sure to make the Camaro competitive against   Mopar's Hemi for drag racing use. The 9650 COPO  package started with an L78 equipped Camaro,   but with the 427 ZL1 under the hood, plus  14x7 Wheels, F41 heavy duty suspension,   a cold air induction cowled hood, a larger  radiator, radio delete, front disc brakes,   a 4:10 rear gear with a limited slip differential,  and a lot more. Plain and simple, the 9650 COPO   Camaros were designed for one thing and one thing  only and that was racing. They were very fast and   they were not very street friendly and they were  absolutely nasty. But, unfortunately when Fred   Gibb ordered 50 of these 1969 Camaros with the  Copo 9560 package, they didn't inform him of a   new corporate policy. Now before this new policy  went into place, Chevy would absorb the extra cost   of developing this new COPO package and putting  everything together as R&D costs. But, with the   new corporate policy, all those costs were passed  on to the dealer who then ultimately had to pass   it on to the customer. They didn't tell Fred  Gibb about this, meaning he was expecting a $400   option on all these Camaros, so the base price  of the Camaro plus $400 for the 9560 package,   and it ended up being quite a bit more to the  tune of $4,160 of options bringing, the price   of the 9560 COPO Camaros to $7,200. Very few  dealers could finance that kind of inventory or   even sell 50 Camaros that cost more than a $4,700  Corvette, and as such, Fred Gibb felt that Chevy   had kind of screwed him over with the pricing that  he wasn't expecting. So, they negotiated a deal to   send back 37 of the 9560 COPO Camaros, which were  then distributed through Chevy's dealer network   and sold. Those 50 cars, plus 19 additional cars  ordered by various dealers brought the total up   to 69 1969 ZL1 Camaros produced. And to give you  an idea of how fast those 1969 ZL1 Camaros were,   they would run a roughly 13 second quarter mile at  110 miles per hour. Not only is that decently fast   car today, that is crazy fast by 1969 standards.  Jumping forwards a bit, let's look at the LT5,   and not the one under the hood of the C7 ZR1, but  rather the one under the hood of the C4 ZR1. God   I really hate that Chevy just continues to use  their same names over and over and over. Makes it   way more complicated than it needs to be. Anyways,  this engine is particularly interesting because of   how it was developed between multiple companies.  You have to remember that throughout the 50s,   60s, 70s, all the way up to the 90s, GM  was offering a small block and big block   engines in various forms, but they were all very  similar with the same cam-in-block design. Hell,   Chevy is still using that format to this day, but  we'll get to that later. When they were designing   the ZR1 package for the C4 Corvette, they knew  they were going to need something better. If this   package was meant to be the pinnacle of Corvette  performance and ultimately the pinnacle of Chevy   performance, they couldn't just keep using an old  dinosaur engine. So, they teamed up with Lotus to   develop something much better, or at least better  on paper. I think it's worth noting here at this   point in the video, that in 1986 GM had acquired  a 91% stake in Lotus after Toyota sold their stake   to GM. So, it's not like they were just going  to a random British company, it's a company that   happened to be in their portfolio of companies.  When the Corvette division was developing the ZR1   package, they approached Lotus for help with the  engine and the entire platform. With some help and   some guidance from GM, Lotus went on to design a  new engine that they then named the LT5. This new   engine was a massive departure from the existing  L98 V8 engine found in the standard C4 Corvette.   It uses an aluminum cylinder block with the same  center bores as the l98, but with dual overhead   cams and four valves per cylinder. It also used  a Lotus designed air intake system that provided   a surprisingly wide power band. Unlike the l98,  though, the bore size would decrease from four   inches down to 3.9 inches, and the stroke was  increased from 3.48 inches to 3.66 inches. This   engine also features aluminum cylinder liners,  cast aluminum oil pump, hydraulic lifters, an   11 to 1 compression ratio, and a bunch more. Plain  and simple, this was designed as an extremely high   performance naturally aspirated engine far past  anything GM or Chevy was offering of the time.   One of the parts that I find very interesting  about this engine compared to any other engine   from the 90s or at least gas engines from the 90s,  is that it holds a ridiculous 12 quarts of oil.   For reference, the L98, which was the standard  Corvette engine of the time, holds five quarts   of oil. To keep everything cool, GM employed an  improved cooling system with a larger radiator to   keep the operating temperature similar to the l98  powered C4 Corvettes. All this led up to a very   impressive 375 horsepower, which sounds pretty  bad compared to the performance oriented engines   we discussed earlier in the video, but you have to  remember that 1990s performance cars were severely   restricted by the lovely folks at the EPA. For  reference, a standard C4 Corvette was producing   around 250 horsepower, so for the ZR1 to jump all  the way up to 375 horsepower while still using   the same 5.7 liters of displacement and not adding  any sort of forced induction was a pretty big jump   while still staying within EPA regulations.  Strangely enough, this engine was pretty   complicated. So complicated that Chevy didn't  even feel comfortable building it in their own   facilities that they had very many of. So, they  actually contracted out the work of assembling   this engine to Mercury Marine. Supposedly, the  engine assembly was about 95 percent drilling and   boring completed at the Mercury Marine Factory,  and interestingly enough, the engine was almost   entirely assembled by hand and then Dyno tested  before being sent to Chevy for them to plop into   the zr1 c4 Corvette. Later versions of the C4  ZR1 had their power bumped to 405 horsepower by   modifications from Lotus in the form of cylinder  head changes, exhaust system changes, and more.   But, it was all short-lived, because in 1995 Chevy  stopped offering the ZR1 after selling just about   7,000 units. Alright, the moment you've all  been waiting for, when we finally jump up to   the modern age with arguably GM's greatest  creation ever, the LS. More specifically,   we're putting the LS1 at this point in the video,  because as the name implies, it's the first LS.   It's the one that kicked off everything. Compared  to the small block engines before it and then the   god awful TBI engines, the LS1 was a far departure  from it all. But, it also was and is astonishingly   similar to earlier engines, and at the time of its  release, had a lot of people wondering if Chevy   had made a bad move by not moving to overhead cams  as Ford had done in the 1990s. Regardless though,   it is really hard to understate the importance  of the LS1, which basically birthed the entire   Gen 3 small block platform, which then turned  into Vortec engines, and so much more. The LS1,   specifically, was first debuted in the 1997 C5  Corvette. The brand new generation of Corvette,   came with the brand new engine. This is a 5.7  liter engine and it features an all-aluminum   design. It also features coil near plug ignition  and various other new engine management features,   and as I mentioned, these new features made a  vastly greater than the previous generation small   block, and by 1998 the LS1 replaced the LT1 found  in Camaros and Firebirds. When they moved from the   old small block design to the new Gen 3 design,  they massively beefed up the foundation of the   engine by switching to a Y block design. This also  then allowed them to use six bolt main caps, four   bolts vertically and two bolts horizontally, which  GM engine rngineers named Snapfit Cross Bolting.   On the top end, Chevy took it even further by  integrating the use of extra long head bolts that   thread deep into the block to minimize cylinder  bore distortion and variation in head bolt torque   spec, as well as improving the clamping force  on the block. Compared to the old small blocks,   the camshaft was raised up and further away from  the crankshaft, which then allowed them to clear   a four inch stroke crank, which they didn't  leverage initially, but later did to create   the 7-liter displacement of the LS7, but more on  that in a moment. To further increase the strength   of the top end and ultimately the entire block,  they started using a valley plate cover with   the LS engines, and as the name implies, this is  literally just a metal cover that goes over the   valley of the engine where the lifters reside  and basically ties the top end, both sides,   both banks of the block together on one piece.  It also helps to eliminate the possibility of   intake manifold leaks causing oil consumption.  All in, the LS1 was a revolution for GM, but it   was also just another generation of small block,  and again, it was cause for concern off the bat,   since their main competitor, Ford, had switched to  overhead cams in the 1990s. But, as as we all know   now, the cam-in-block design was good enough for  the modern age and still stands as a good engine   today in 2023. Speaking of that four inch stroke  capability, that's exactly how Chevy was able to   develop the nastiest LS of them all, the 7 liter  LS7. Functionally, it's very similar to just about   any Gen 4 small block, which is also very similar  to any Gen 3 small block, but it's not like Chevy   just took a standard LS1 and just gave it a ton  of displacement or something like that. Rather, it   was developed as a truly special engine right off  the bat. By using that massive four inch stroke,   combined with the even larger 4.125 inch bore  thanks to the pressed-in steel cylinder liners,   they were able to create that giant displacement,  but with the application being a high performance   variant of the Corvette, they also needed to  ensure the oiling system wouldn't become an issue,   which is why they added dry sump oiling that  helps ensure adequate oil pressure during high   load cornering. Unlike other mass-produced LS, LQ,  and LM engines, the LS7 was assembled by hand by a   single builder at GM's performance build center  in Wixom, Michigan. This allowed them to pretty   much follow all the best practices when it comes  to low volume engine building and ensure the best   quality possible for the Z06 Corvette. Other  cool features of the LS7 include the dowled   in place forged steel main bearing caps, forged  steel crankshaft, precision deck plate honing,   titanium connecting rods for reduced rotating  assembly weight, higher flowing cylinder heads,   an 11:1 compression ratio, and a unique intake  manifold to match the improved heads, and so   much more. All of this turned out an impressive  505 horsepower, and I know what you JDM guys are   thinking out there. "Hardy har har, 500 horsepower  out of 7 liter, my 2-liter makes that." Listen, no   one cares, the seven liter makes 500 horsepower,  makes a ton of torque, it's super reliable, it's   literally designed as a track application and it's  designed to be able to do a hundred thousand plus   miles. I'd really like to see your 2-liter making  that much power do this. And on top of that,   that 505 horsepower is very very easily bumped  to over 600 horsepower with pretty much just a   camshaft and nothing else. Honestly, we could keep  going on and on and on about different LS engines,   and how they had profound impacts on the  automotive market as well as the aftermarket.   From the LS9 and LSA, to the LS3 and even Chevy  performance LSX engines. The point here is that   the LS engine have dominated the world of drag  racing performance, road racing, drifting,   and so much more. It's relatively affordable,  very easy to swap around parts, very easy to   get safe power out of naturally aspirated, it's  incredibly compact for the displacement options,   and much more. Alright, enough of the LS, it's  time we take a look at a much more modern engine,   which is the LT or the Gen 5 small block. Like  the LS engine it was replacing, the LT featured an   all-aluminum design, coil near plug ignition, and  loads of other similarities. That being said, the   biggest and arguably the most important difference  with the LT is the change to direct injection. The   LT v8 engine family includes the LT1, lt2, lt4,  lt5, l83, l86, l8t, and a few others. All of these   engines feature the previously mentioned direct  fuel injection system, variable valve timing,   active fuel management, electronic throttle  control, and other advanced features. I think it   is briefly worth noting that all those LT engines  that I just mentioned are aluminum block, but the   only one that is an iron block is the l8t. Cast  in place cylinder liners result in an all-aluminum   deck face with induction liner heating utilized  for dimensional control. This results in exact   placing of every cylinder in every block. Nodular  iron main caps retained with six cross bolts just   as the LS engine was replaced previous main caps  where powder metal was used. In addition to the   redesigned main caps, every cylinder features oil  spraying piston cooling, where eight oil spraying   jets in the block drench the underside of each  piston and the surrounding cylinder wall with an   extra layer of oil to further reduce in cylinder  temperatures and improve lubrication. One of the   major changes with the Gen 5 is that it features  variable valve timing and that comes in the form   of a cam phaser on the front of the camshaft, and  on the back of the camshaft we actually have lobes   to drive the direct injection fuel pump. This new  variable valve timing system offers an enormous   swing of over 60 degrees of authority over the  camshaft position, which ultimately means a much   wider power band, improved peak power band, and  improved fuel efficiency. For the intake manifold,   GM used an all new design allowing air to get  into the combustion chamber much easier. More   impressively, the imbalance of airflow is reduced  by 50% compared to the outgoing small block. All   in, though, the LT is a lot like the LS that  came before it. Gen 5 is very similar to Gen   4 and Gen 3, but the changes that they made  are very important changes, and most notably,   the variable valve timing, direct fuel injection  really brought the overhead valve design, the   cam-in-block design, up into the modern ages and  allowed them to compete with overhead cam engines,   at least in theory. And while I praise GM for  pushing the limits of what is possible with   a cam-in-block design, ultimately overhead cam  engines are superior in just about every single   way, which takes us to GM's newest performance  engine, the LT6. And what makes this engine so   special, so cool, so interesting, and such a  big departure from anything GM has ever done,   is the fact that it doesn't have a cam-in-block  design, rather it has dual overhead cams. And   Chevy had huge aspirations for this engine. It  wasn't just going to be a new type of engine or   like a new family, this was going to be their best  ever performance engine, plain and simple. Really,   this engine started as the LT6R racing engine.  In fact, the racing division worked closely with   the small block production team to co-develop  both engines, with both groups sharing data,   ideas, issues, insights, and so on. What's  even more interesting is that both engines   share cylinder block, heads, valve train, and  fuel system designs. Meaning the lt6 is mostly   a straight up racing engine with minor changes  for emission systems and reliability, but because   the production lt6 isn't a racing engine, it's not  held back by restrictions like the racing team is,   meaning the lt6 makes even more power than the  lt6r engine. How much power you might be asking?   Well, it's a lot. 670 horsepower at 8400 RPM and  460 pound-feet of torque at 6300 RPM. And right   off the bat, you might be thinking "cool, the lt4  makes roughly that kind of power, hellcats make a   little bit more power than that, it's really not  all that much power" But, the thing you're missing   is that this engine does not have any forced  induction at all. It is making that 670 horsepower   completely naturally aspirated. Pn top of that,  it's not like it has a big displacement like the   7 liter LS7 or anything even close to that. It's  a 5.5 liter engine. Getting that kind of power   out of a 5.5 liter V8 without the use of race gas,  ethanol, nitrous, turbocharger, supercharger, any   kind of force induction, anything like that, is  absolutely crazy doing that naturally aspirated.   Starting with the two most important factors that  allowed them to push out that kind of power, we   have the insanely well designed cylinder heads and  flat plane crankshaft. Starting with the heads,   we have a dual overhead cam design, the two  cams per bank of the engine are then controlled   by independent hydraulic camshaft phasing with  the intake side at 55 degrees of authority and   the exhaust side at 27 degrees of authority. The  even weirder part about these heads, there's no   hydraulic lifters. You might be wondering why  and it's simply because hydro lifters simply   don't like high RPM usage and this engine is  designed with that in mind specifically. Instead,   it uses a mechanical system that uses robotically  installed steel lash caps that requires zero   maintenance. Of course, with the high RPM demands  and high power demands, the cylinder heads need a   lot of flow. Now, I think it's worth noting here  that the LS7 heads were ridiculous at the time   that they came out. They flowed a ton of air, they  blew everything else out of the water and it's   part of what makes the LS7 such a cool engine.  But the LT6 heads blow those out of the water   completely. It is absolutely flat out ridiculous  the amount of air that the lt6 heads flow straight   out of the box with no modifications. On the  bottom end of this engine is the other incredibly   important part to the lt6 and that's the flatplane  crankshaft. We've discussed this in other videos,   but there are both benefits and drawbacks to this  type of crankshaft compared to the standard cross   plane crankshaft that we've seen in other GM V8  engines. One of the biggest benefits is weight.   With the forged steel lt6 crankshaft coming in  33 percent lighter than the crank in the lt2,   which is the standard C8 Corvette engine. With  less weight comes the ability to rev the engine   up and down much faster and also be able to  survive high RPM conditions better. The downside   to a flatpane crankshaft is that they vibrate a  lot, which is exactly why Chevy ended up at 5.5   liters of displacement. They really didn't want  to go any smaller because they wouldn't be able   to make their target power which was 650hp or  more, obviously they passed that, with 670hp,   but they couldn't go any bigger than 5.5 liters  because of the ridiculous amount of vibration of   the flatplace crank. The rest of the rotating  assembly is also very lightweight, featuring   titanium connecting rods and forged pistons, both  of which are lighter than any other GM V8 engine.   This further improves the ability to rev the  engine up and down and also survive high RPM use   and the part that houses everything, the cylinder  block, well that has some interesting innovations   as well. More specifically, the lt6 is a two-piece  block consisting of the block casting along with   the aluminum lower crankcase casting also known  as LCC. Both the block and LCC are partially   machined, leak tested, flow tested and then bolted  together, finished machined, and serialized as   a matching set. Once that happens, they are  together forever. Just as with a race engine,   the block is bored and honed using a deck plate.  Combine all that with the other innovations of the   lt6 like the ridiculous dry sump oiling system,  hot side upside down injectors, active intake   manifold, dual throttle bodies, ridiculously  lightweight and high flowing exhaust system,   as well as loads of other innovations, and you  can start to see how the lt6 is without a doubt,   Chevy's best and most complicated V8 engine  ever. And the proof is in the pudding. It   is quite literally the most powerful naturally  aspirated engine ever. And not only that, it makes   175 horsepower more than the standard LT2 while  only weighing one kilogram more. For now, though,   that's that. We kind of just have to wait to see  what Chevy conjures up for the ZR1, if they end   up making it, and as time moves on, I'm sure we'll  start to see Chevy introduced more twin turbo V8s   into their lineup or hybrid electric drivetrains  or whatever. From 1917 up until today in 2023,   Chevy has made a lot of different engines, and  a lot of different V8 engines. Most of them are   good, some of them are absolutely fantastic, some  of them aren't so great, but for the most part,   they have a lot of good V8 engines and there's a  lot to look at here, but our time time is up. So,   if you think I missed anything in this video  be sure to drop it down in the comments below,   let me know what else you want to see in  the future, get subscribed so you don't   miss out on future videos, smash the Thumbs Up  Button if you enjoyed this video, check us out   on Instagram and TikTok, we post a lot on there  as well, and I'll see you guys in the next one.
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