Corvette supercharged 600hp Z06 dubbed the "Blue Devil"

GM can't stand to see the already potent 500hp Corvette Z06 gazed down upon as a second rate supercar. Instead GM is developing an alleged supercharged 600hp Z06 with carbon fiber components dubbed the "Blue Devil" as reported by Autoweek in a recent interview with General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz. Prior to the release of the new 427 Z06 the mags were guessing it would cost $85k and it came in at $65k. The 8.4 L big block is an attention getter. That comes out to something like 507 cubic inches which is very close to the current crate ZZ502. If they used that basic design and cast the block in aluminum which they have been doing and selling as ZL1’s (454 CI) – that would be a rather potent combo. These are all the new Mark VI blocks and are mostly used in boats and replacements for cars. They would have no problem getting 650 HP out of that motor or more and still run in a less tuned state than the current Z06. The big thing with the big block is the massive amount of torque availabe even at the lower RPM’s. With a supercharger it would probably put out 850Hp in a modest state of tune. The only problem with a big block is big thirst – all of them are terrible, thus Gm would not want to put too many of them on the street and pull down their corporate fuel economy. Even with a blower it is hard to figure how they would get much more than $70k for it.

The BD or super Corvette won’t be using a 7.0L V8. It will be using a supercharged 6.2 OHV Gen IV based V8 that will be a modified version of the one going into a performance Escalade, and possibly a higher performance Silverado varient. There were pictures of the truck varient leaked months ago so this should not come as a shock to anyone who keeps up with GM future vehicles.

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