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Originally Posted by Sy1616
Curious why they didn’t make at least 500hp, another 5hp....simply as a physiological sales point. I do like it.
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I think it's fairly challenging to take that engine to "500hp" as well, a bunch of guys on the camaro forums try to do it with some exotic intake manifolds and other mods, pushing a 6.2 to nearly as much power as the bigger engine in the C6 Z06 at 505hp. Due to the small block pushrod configuration which has packaging, weight and CG advantages, you have more difficulties revving up to astronomical RPM levels where more HP would be possible. In this "give and take" reality, this is probably a reliable SAE number that they were able to make with the already decent LT1 basis.