Chevrolet Will Sell You A New 632 Big Block, But They Aren't Exactly Cheap

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For astir drivers, nan thought of having to switch an motor is nan worldly of nightmares. Expensive nightmares. But for a definite marque of gearhead, getting a caller high-performance V8 for their thrust would beryllium a dream travel true. Especially if it were nan biggest, baddest crate motor Chevrolet ever offered.

Those adjectives travel courtesy of nan Bowtie brand, which besides provides nan specs for its caller ZZ632 V8 to backmost them up. For starters, nan 632 is nan mill's displacement successful cubic inches and translates into 10.4 liters successful metric terms. It further incorporates features for illustration high-flow spread-port cylinder heads and an all-forged roller assembly pinch a hydraulic camshaft, positive it's a high-revving V8 pinch a redline of 7,000 rpm. As a result, you tin bask an unthinkable 1,004 horsepower and 876 pound-feet of torque if you quench nan engine's thirst pinch 93 octane gas.

Just remember, pinch awesome powerfulness comes a awesome large value tag, too. The ZZ632 crate engine, disposable packed up from GM Performance Parts, retails for almost $49,000 pinch a crank-trigger ignition system, plug coils, h2o pump, balancer, and unique orangish valve covers. Not a Chevy fan? Don't worry — Dodge and Ford connection 1,000-horsepower crate engines arsenic well.

The Dodge bestiary has immoderate reasonably absorbing creatures, from Super Bees to Vipers to moreover Hellephants — nan second being nan sanction of a mighty 6.2-liter V8 crate engine. A departure from nan ZZ632, it takes a different way to delivering 1,025 horsepower and 945 pound-feet of torque connected E85 fuel. The Hellephant gets its grunt by adding a 3.0-liter IHI supercharger to nan motor. And, yes, it's a existent Hemi engine, complete pinch hemispherical combustion heads.

From a real-world standpoint, nan Hellephant C170 astatine nan apical of nan nutrient concatenation was besides utilized successful nan 2023 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170. This turnkey dragster was tin of getting to 60 successful an EV-like 1.66 seconds and an NHRA-certified quarter-mile people of 8.91 seconds. Dodge will now waste you that motor for conscionable nether $28,000.

Even amended — and dissimilar nan COPO Camaro sold by Chevy pinch nan ZZ632 V8 for racing only — nan SRT Demon 170 is someway thoroughfare legal. So that 0-to-60 sprint clip counts arsenic nan quickest ever group by a accumulation car.

The Blue Oval's mighty Megazilla 2.0 V8 is our last personnel of nan 1,000-horsepower club. True, we don't cognize what's nan woody with this engine's afloat specs yet, but Ford's declare of "more than 1,000" horses is bully capable for us. Its expected value of astir $33,000 is besides beautiful bully news, astatine slightest compared to nan Chevy's ZZ632.

If you're curious, nan first Megazilla crate motor was a people aspirated 7.3-liter V8, an improvement of nan Godzilla centrifugal recovered successful Ford's HD trucks. Now, Megazilla 1.0 was nary slouch, arsenic it could make a hefty 612 horsepower. The 2.0 version, however, follows nan aforesaid forced-induction strategy arsenic nan Hellephant C170 to make its 4 figures worthy of horsepower. 

One downside to nan supercharged Megazilla 2.0 is that Ford is touting it for title usage only correct now. But we'll spot what enthusiasts get up to erstwhile it goes connected waste later this year. Who knows, possibly it will springiness Ford nan opportunity to reboot its ain factory-built dragster: nan Ford Mustang Super Cobra Jet, past seen arsenic a record-setting EV prototype successful 2024.