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Old 01-26-2018, 01:10 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by shaffe View Post
Because GM is building it one of two things will happen

Suddenly that torque curve won't matter anymore, we have always loved having to rev to the moon

or

Because GM is making it it will run on unicorn blood and be able to produce gobs of torque down low just because its a GM engine
Depends on how they do it. The Voodoo doesn’t have direct injection. If the 5.5 has direct injection, they can increase the compression ratio and get some of that torque back.

Granted, a 5.5 liter making north of 600 hp will be almost all top end, it just won’t be entirely gutless at low rpm.
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