Volume II, Issue 3— Bowtie Bytes

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Special features of the LSX include:

  1. Six-bolt main bearings
  2. Thick deck for max clamping force     
  3. Thick cylinder walls for increased bore size
  4. True priority main bearing oiling for standard hydraulic lifters
  5. 9.26-inch semi-finished deck height (on standard deck height version)
  6. Tall deck for larger displacement available
  7. 3.99-inch bore, ready to hone
  8. Capable of 4.250-inch bore with 0.200-inch cylinder wall thickness
  9. Capable of 364 to 500ci displacement
  10. Accommodates any LS oil pan and oil pamp
  11. Main web bay-t—bay breathing holes
  12. Access windows for cylinder head stud access (intake side)
  13. Extra breathing pocket added near starter for better windage[4/5/2007]

JOHNSON ROMPS AT MARTINSVILLE


Jimmie Johnson looks very tough in 2007 to repeat as Cup Champ if his Chevy Impala SS COT performance here was any indication. In an otherwise basically boring race at the great shortrack, Johnson held off his mentor/teammate Jeff Gordon for the last ten laps to take the win by ½-car length. It was a display of restraint and car control seldom seen on a

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short track as the two bumped a bit in the remaining laps, but never in the time-honored “I just wanted to rattle his cage” version of the late Dale Earnhardt – which would have put Johnson’s lead car in at least one 360-degree revolution.
 
Chevys filled the top seven places in the finishing order with these drivers in third through seventh: Denny Hamlin, Kurt Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Burton and Tony Stewart. The COT is still having some expected teething problems: Kevin Harvick must have thought he was hexed – the fuel pump drive cable broke (taking him out of the Top 10 for lengthy repairs), and then the energy-absorbing foam in the right-side door started smoking.

“Smoke just started coming out the right side door, so I guess blaming it on something else (referencing the energy absorbing foam in the doors) is not the right thing to do. I mean this thing just started burning up, so it's almost turning it into a joke now," noted Harvick. His is not the first complaint about smoking foam/fumes from the new COT.

In Cup the strong multicar teams just keep getting stronger. Chevy more than most. (GM Racing photo)[4/5/2007]

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