Re: 2015 Corvette Z06: Only a 1.7 liter TVS Supercharger!
Pretty good but one way to think about it is the HP has meaning as a function of torque and rpm but does not mean much by itself. OTOH if you want a car to be the fastest it can then you have to consider the area under the torque curve in each gear and the best place to shift is where the "tractive effort" (combination of torque and gearing) crosses the line of the next gear. Of course if you have a rev limiter then that has to be taken into account as well.
Once you have a good handle on the broad torque curve of the Crossfire engine then you can really see how badly chosen the manual trans gear ratios were (looks like selected for about a 2 liter turbo engine than makes little power under 3500 rpm and not one has a virtually flat torque curve (85% of peak from 2000 to 6000 rpm a really neat trick without VVT).
Having seen it mentioned both ways I wonder if someone can answer the question: is the crank a conventional 90 degree (aka odd fire) or does it have offset journals for a 60 degree firing order (even fire) ? YWTK. (odd fire would explain the benefit from such large throttle bodies).