What
happens when Lingenfelter Performance Engineering bolts a couple of their
high-tech turbos onto an LS6? The answer is, all hell breaks loose.
Graham
Behan, project engineer at Lingenfelter and former developmental engineer
on the LT5, likes to compare the new twin turbo Z06 to a normally-aspirated,
big cubic-inch V8. "You dont feel some huge delay, then a big kick
when the turbos come in. There is virtually no turbo lag. It just feels like
youre driving a big-block."
This
is precisely what LPE worked towards with their new twin turbo Z06, a car
we discovered in the pits at Beech Bends drag strip during the C5 Bash
hosted by the National Corvette Museum. There we found the white-haired John
Lingenfelter leaning on the roof and writing notes on a 10.84/134 time-slip.