# looking for a brand new c6?

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**Created:** [January 2, 2007, 2:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-brand-new-c6/187164 "2007-01-02T14:35:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 4, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/looking-for-a-brand-new-c6/187164/55 "2007-01-04T15:35:23Z")

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> [@Motorsport Torrents](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/motorsport-torrents/25779/4):
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> there is no reason they shouldn’t still have the same pushrod 5.7L they’ve been using for the last 40 years. This LS23456789 6.0L 6.3L yadda yadda bullshit is costing them a ton of R&D money. Why? so they can say they have some “new engine”. Who gives a fuck?
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> Like you couldn’t make a good old LS1 put out the power these new engines are putting out with a few tweeks.
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> And as far as turning profit, GM lost 10 billion dollars last year. If they don’t do something VERY drastic in the next 3 years, Toyota is going to buy them for $5.

Very little $ goes into the LS series designs vs. new car designs and such. Especially because most of the cost is amortized into the (still profitable) trucks. For example, the L92 in the Escalade uses a lot of the LS7 research. And there’s nothing wrong with pumping out factory heads that flow over 330cfm. :idb:

And no, GM couldn’t make the LS1 make the power **AND TORQUE** of a L92 or LS3 and still pass CA emissions and such.

I’m not saying GM isn’t stupid and setting themselves up for extinction. But it’s not the Gen III/IV motors doing it. Hell, they may be be their second saving grace behind the new full-sized truck/suv platform.

-TJ

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