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Chevrolet decided the Matiz should be a gas efficient, small, light, grass growing accelerating automobile. To reach those goals Chevy stuck a 1.0L in-line 3 cylinder producing around 65 horsepower. But in July of 2007 Fourdin Auto Sport<\/a> did what any respectable auto enthusiast would have done to boost the power, shoehorn a 550 horsepower 7.0L Corvette Z06. The 0-60 time improved from 22 seconds to 3.7 seconds. The project took roughly 13 months or around 1,500 man hours. I sure hope more information comes out about this blue rocket.<\/p>\n

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Source: Autoblog.nl<\/a> via Jalopnik<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chevrolet decided the Matiz should be a gas efficient, small, light, grass growing accelerating automobile. To reach those goals Chevy stuck a 1.0L in-line 3 cylinder producing around 65 horsepower. But in July of 2007 Fourdin Auto Sport did what any respectable auto enthusiast would have done to boost the power, shoehorn a 550 horsepower… Read More »Corvette Mini-Me<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2613,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=2613","url_meta":{"origin":527,"position":0},"title":"Chevy Spark with a LS7 V8","author":"swaptastic","date":"April 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You are looking at the smallest car Chevy sells with one of the biggest engines they make. 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