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Originally Posted by 90503

Perhaps highly unlikely, but why not a free-pass for the LS7 and the LSA making into the 6th Gen for the Z/28 and ZL-1 respectively?.....

A short term lease-on-life for these engines wouldn't be too unlike how the LS7 continued into the Z/28...

Have there been any rumors/news that the "new"(?) plant that is making the LS7 will be closing down?

Those two engines would fill in the gaps at least temporarily, and be all a new Gen Camaro would need to compete with the new Fords, or whatever....I think it would be an awesome surprise if they could pull off continuing those two engines somehow into the 6th Gen, if at least for a short while....

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GM Closing Wixom Performance Engine Facility, Build-Your-Own-Engine Program Ends

General Motors’ Wixom Performance Build Center has been responsible for building the company’s highest performance engines by hand since it was opened back in 2005 with the most recent efforts being focused on the Corvette Z06, the Corvette ZR-1 and a variety of high performance crate motors sold to consumers for custom car builds. However, with a decrease in demand for the LS7 and LS9 engines caused by the launch of the C7 Corvette, GM will shutter the tiny high performance engine facility. Even though the new Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 will pack the LS7 engine formerly reserved for the C6 Corvette Z06, GM doesn’t see the need to have a facility dedicated to the least-used engines in their vehicle lineup. The few highly specialized workers at the Wixom facility will work through this fall as they build the engines for the new Z/28 but after that, they will be offered positions in other Detroit area powertrain facilities and the Performance Build Center will close – seemingly for good.

http://www.torquenews.com/106/gm-clo...e-program-ends