Many of us have grown up falling totally in love with the Chevy Corvette. Unfortunately, even as prevalent as the iconic car is, even a used Corvette still demands a premium price. Considering the wide price gap between the base Corvette and the top-of-the-line ZR1, even the wealthy sometimes have to settle for less horsepower than they hoped for.
Over at Hemmings Auto Blog though, they’ve come across a Corvette Grand Sport that has been turned into a supercharged ZR1 killer by Redline Motorsports and DeNooyer Performance.
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These two tuner shops, led by Howard Tanner and Dan Carlton, took a formerly-stock 2010 Corvette Grand Sport and turned it into something complete different. With a base price of around $64,000, it isn’t the cheapest Corvette you can buy, and yet it is still far cheaper than the $110,000 ZR1, and it comes with a removable roof. You can’t get a removable roof on the ZR1 (some nonsense about structural rigidity we’re sure).
They then took the stock LS3 engine and strapped an Edelbrock E-Force supercharger to it. Coupled with a lopey camshaft designed to take advantage of the supercharger, and you have the HTR-GS640SC. Long name yes, but lots of horsepower too. This beast makes about 640 horsepower at the crank and puts down 556 ponies at the wheels. That is ZR1 territory all right, and it comes with a 3-year/36,000 mile warranty to boot. And even with those modifications, the price still comes in at just around $86,000, $24,000 shy of the cost of the ZR1. Can’t argue with those numbers.
Over at Hemmings Auto Blog though, they’ve come across a Corvette Grand Sport that has been turned into a supercharged ZR1 killer by Redline Motorsports and DeNooyer Performance.
Images: Hemmings Auto Blog
These two tuner shops, led by Howard Tanner and Dan Carlton, took a formerly-stock 2010 Corvette Grand Sport and turned it into something complete different. With a base price of around $64,000, it isn’t the cheapest Corvette you can buy, and yet it is still far cheaper than the $110,000 ZR1, and it comes with a removable roof. You can’t get a removable roof on the ZR1 (some nonsense about structural rigidity we’re sure).
They then took the stock LS3 engine and strapped an Edelbrock E-Force supercharger to it. Coupled with a lopey camshaft designed to take advantage of the supercharger, and you have the HTR-GS640SC. Long name yes, but lots of horsepower too. This beast makes about 640 horsepower at the crank and puts down 556 ponies at the wheels. That is ZR1 territory all right, and it comes with a 3-year/36,000 mile warranty to boot. And even with those modifications, the price still comes in at just around $86,000, $24,000 shy of the cost of the ZR1. Can’t argue with those numbers.
