This C6 Corvette runs a 549 cubic-inch V6 fed by two 98-millimeter turbochargers, the product of roughly seven years of development. Building a six by deleting two cylinders from a big-block V8 is not vandalism, it is a real drag racing practice that trades cylinder count for a shorter, narrower engine with enormous per-cylinder displacement. Here is why the math works, what the C6’s rear transaxle brings to it, and why the seven-year timeline is the real story.
