Its popularity and use across almost the entire GM network over the past 26 years means there is now a mind-boggling number of variants and revisions.įrom the original 345hp (260kW) LS1 found in the C5 Corvette, through to the 638hp (476kW) LS9 (the most powerful engine ever offered by GM in a production car), the breadth of the family is staggeringly vast. Sharing almost nothing with its iron-based predecessors, the injected, lightweight and very compact pushrod engine ushered in a new era of refinement for General Motors V8 cars. When it first appeared under the heavily raked bonnet of the all-new fifth-gen Corvette in ’97, the all-aluminium 5.7-litre V8 was dubbed the Gen III, as it was the third main redesign of the super-popular Chevy small-block.įirst published in the July 2023 issue of Street Machine Since it was launched in 1997, there have been 30 variants made of the Gen III and Gen IV Chevrolet V8, colloquially known as the LS.
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