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Originally Posted by GH85Carrera
Apparently Generac bought the rights /copied the 454 after GM decided to parts ways with it they even managed to bump it up to 9L displacement mostly in LP and Natural gas generators. They’re rated at a blistering 150 HP and even come as a turbo model at 220 horse power! Nothing cool or fancy but I’m pretty sure this dethrones the 500 caddy as the worst power to displacement engine in history! |
Interesting. I'm guessing these are a compromise to get reliability/longevity out of them along with a fair amount of low end grunt, so they probably have low compression ratios, tiny valves, and the kind of cam that might have been called an "rv cam" in the automotive world. They are probably designed to work at fairly low RPMs (1500-3000 is my guess), and are designed to get peak power in that range (rather than at 5600rpm like the LS6).
another kind of fire breathing 454. I've gotta think that this would SUCK to shoot.
although it could always be worse
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