Chevy Corvette Z06 Engineers Bought a Ferrari 458 Engine on Ebay to Learn Its Secrets - The Drive

They paid $25,000 for it sight unseen and weren't even sure it would show up.

It's no wonder General Motors' small-block engineers had to get creative when designing the new Corvette Z06's 5.5-liter, flat-plane crank V8. Never before had GM built an engine without a cross-plan… [+3572 chars]

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