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Looks like a Vette to me. Looks good too. Not enough yellow but I like it. The TCR Mazda looks amazing though. Hopefully it's as fast and reliable as it is good looking. Now we need a Mazdaspeed 3 that has the same look!
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"Despite initial speculation of a turbocharged engine, multiple sources have indicated to Sportscar365 that the car features a 5.5-liter flat-crank V8 powerplant, although it is yet to be confirmed by GM."
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Looking at it sideways reminds me of the Corvette DP too. If there was a C8 styling for the Corvette DP, it would not be far off from this. I do miss that car, Corvette was the only Daytona Prototype I ever liked.
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3 Oct 2019, 18:45 (Ref:3931757) | #130 | |
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Listen to this...
https://twitter.com/GeekyGearhead99/...57773606096896 That sounds like a V8 imo, not the original LT V8 we associate with Corvette but not a turbo |
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3 Oct 2019, 19:22 (Ref:3931774) | #131 | |
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Corvette C8R and Porsche 911 RSR 19 look very fast. Probably are too. They could match the Grand Am era DP cars at Daytona in speed now? Very possible I think. Could be slowed down only by BoP if BMW M8 can't keep up.
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daytona don't know because dp3 (before ALMS-GA merge) were considerably fast on straight due lack of downforce, a GTLM will never reach >310km/h at daytona, but found out a curious fact 2013 DP GRAND-AM pole laguna seca: 1.21.557 2019 GTLM IMSA pole laguna seca: 1.21.557 lol basically aero and tires compensate the extra weight since GTLM about 1220-1280kg x about 520hp x confidential michelin vs DP about 1050kg x about 510hp x concrete compound spec continental |
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There are rumors of this exact thing (minus the fancy crank) being developed by GM for Cadillac right now. |
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I don't think it's smaller displacement given that GM for the Cadillac (and if they went small displacement for the Corvette) would/are using turbochargers. The C8R sounds like a NA engine. I'm betting that it might be 5.0-5.5 liters, though I may be wrong.
Granted, it sounds like the Super GT spec/LMP2 spec Nissan VK45 engine, which was a 4.5 liter flat crank V8, or the Gibson GK428 LMP2 engine, which is a 4.2 liter flat crank V8. And whatever the displacement, I doubt that it's a pushrod engine, which is a first for a racing Corvette since the start of the IMSA program in 1999. |
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I went to see the C8.R yesterday at Kennedy Space Center. Looked good to me in person! I got some detail photos of the car (front and back) in there.
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Well I tried like 5 times to post a link that wasn't a wall of text, no wonder I've been staying off message boards
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No, thank you!
If y'all don't follow Lanky Turtle on YouTube, you should: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2C...p_RFHyA/videos In the middle of winter, when withdrawals are at their worst, he's got you with an Indycar or sportscar testing video when we need it the most. |
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Sounds like we'll be down one Cadillac for 2020, AXR to just the Whelen entry next season.
https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/a...ffort-in-2020/ |
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Maybe plus 1 Mazda if you can believe MP and Dagys. But what's to come from Taylor moving from WTR, can Wayne find a replacement and does he pay the kid what he'd have to pay another pro?
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10 Oct 2019, 19:36 (Ref:3933175) | #148 | |
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Well there is it, flat-plane 5.5L engine in the C8.R.
Liveries different for the 3 and 4 next season as well https://sportscar365.com/imsa/iwsc/c...ils-confirmed/ From S365: The engine, producing 500 horsepower and 480 foot-pounds of torque, limited per GTE regulations, has been paired with a new compact Xtrac six-speed sequential gearbox that was developed specifically to provide room for a race-specific diffuser. Louth said the biggest gains with the mid-engine layout has been with an improved weight distribution and aerodynamics |
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Kinda surprised that I was right with the engine displacement given how it sounded in videos. Only reason I guessed that displacement was the block might be LS/LT based.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfq7-1ePW-M
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