You are bidding on a GENUINE PHASE1 LT5 Corvette piston Liner from
the infamous UK GRAVEYARD. This Liner has come from one of the test rig
engines.
I have had the Liner polished and engraved
CORVETTE LT5 PROTOTYPE PHASE 1
DEVELOPED BY LOTUS ENGLAND
This is a GENUINE RARE LINER unique in the world of Corvettes
It is presented on a wooden stand
See the Prototype story on my
This item can be mailed to any location (the item
is located in USA)
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History of the LT5 Prototypes.
When
the ZR1 program started (originally known as the LT5 program) in 1985 General
Motors agreed that Lotus in England would develop their overhead cam V8 engine
to GM specifications. Once the test rig engines had undergone their initial
trials at Lotus twenty test ‘mules’ or narrow bodied 1986 Corvettes, stripped
of their engines and transmissions, were sent to England along with one intact
control car. Lotus stripped and modified these cars to install the development
engines thus they became the first ZR1 prototypes with the LT5 engines. The
cars were used in many countries for a variety of development purposes such as
emission control, cold and hot weather testing, 6 speed gearbox development and
high speed oil surge monitoring.
Once
their working life was complete, essentially after the wide bodied Corvettes
were made available to the development teams during 1987, all these cars
including those still in England were scrapped during 1988.
The
wide bodied ZR1 was officially introduced to the world at the 1989 Geneva car
show but full production started for the 1990 model year.
When,
late in '94, some Corvettes were discovered in a junkyard in Norfolk, England,
later to become known as the English ‘Corvette Graveyard’, investigation proved
that these neglected remains were the original development prototype ZR1's that
had been scrapped. The phase 1 engined car, GM project number P8Y044 was
heavily damaged but considered restorable - the car has been restored the
rest is history.
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