Hot Rod magazine’s customized Pontiac Solstice with a Corvette LS7 engine is nearing completion. The car will weigh less than 3,000 pounds when it is completed and will put out 600 horsepower. A lot of weight was cut from the stock configuration, but 700 pounds were added due to the drivetrain swap, rollcage, and other parts. The team completely re-skinned the car with carbon fiber body panels on top of he basic unibody structure. The GM Performance Division helped the team work out some bugs and fine tune the car.
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05/16, 12:04 PM
posted by:
Michele
Mallett already did this but with the LS2 …
05/16, 12:28 PM
posted by:
BAMF
Yeah, so this will be even more disgustingly sick. That hot little body is gonna go faaaaast.
05/16, 1:22 PM
posted by:
Adam
What’s the point?
05/16, 1:55 PM
posted by:
SJS
I don’t care how much power they put in it. In my area they were all bought up by chicks and gays. That’s cool and all, just don’t expect me to get excited about a car with that label.
05/16, 2:40 PM
posted by:
TW
Adam, conceptually really no different than the 427 Cobra Roadster of 1966.
Nothing wrong with a little fun.
05/16, 3:14 PM
posted by:
tino
this isnt my idea of spiffyness
05/16, 4:43 PM
posted by:
Joey D
I’m pretty sure this is the definition of excess. Does one even remotely need this? No not at all but it doesn’t stop me from wanting one.
05/16, 4:51 PM
posted by:
JA
My God is that crazy. I want one, that car has got to be all kinds of rediculous fun to drive with an LS7 in it.
05/16, 5:06 PM
posted by:
RangeRoverBoy
Ideally I’d say this type of engineering for the heck of it is cool. But in light of GM going downhill it seems a bit dumb to try to ’shine the turd’ so to speak.
05/16, 5:30 PM
posted by:
Richard K.
WoW what can i say ?? I Luv it. The Need for Speed is here indeed !!!!!!!!! The Car Connection has the Camaro Concept for a test drive, oh boy i think i will remain a GM loyalist. 2008 Camaro and 2008 GTO, you gotta luv it.
05/16, 5:32 PM
posted by:
chris
“Ideally I’d say this type of engineering for the heck of it is cool. But in light of GM going downhill it seems a bit dumb to try to ’shine the turd’ so to speak. ”
What are you talking about?
05/16, 9:54 PM
posted by:
manny
he thinks gm is wasting their engineering talent/money on things like this… the truth is, if you read the article, it was mostly a hot rod magazine project…
whoever built it, its sweet…
05/17, 6:57 AM
posted by:
Adam
“2008 Camaro and 2008 GTO, you gotta luv it.”
Isn’t the GTO now defunct?
05/17, 10:56 AM
posted by:
RangeRoverBoy
Sorry ‘chris’ and ‘manny’ for the confusion.
I only have a small bit of time to read as many articles as possible.
By the time I got to the end of the article I completely forgot about the HR mag part. Scary… eh?
I guess I was just frustrated at GM and auto makers in general having these cool engineering projects and concept cars, then when the ’showroom’ version comes out it’s generally a ‘turd’ in comparison.
I just have a bad feeling about the Camaro, if made, in reality! I love it now. The Solstice is for someone else.
05/17, 7:24 PM
posted by:
n0rthpole
if this Solstice was equipped with a carbon fiber intake with a double block chamber then i would say it can push upto 800bhp easily.
05/18, 9:15 PM
posted by:
henry webb
Now thats a pontiac. Talk about performance division that’s what it’s about.
Power and Pontiac in a great package.
Let’s do it OK