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Borowski Race Engines has designed built and released a new nitrous option for its naturally aspirated line of LS engines. This LS3 based 416 cubic inch engine makes 620HP on motor and 845HP on spray. The Holley HP handles the fuel and the Nitrous Outlet puck in the bottom of the intake plenum handles the N2O. It's a very stealth setup once you mount the solenoid in the firewall. We further disguise the braided N2O line within a vacuum hose for a totally stealth set up. When the N20 is armed, Holley is programmed to turn on at a designated RPM, add fuel, retard timing and turn off over a set RPM. A couple of things we did to safeguard the engine are that it kills the N2O program if it gets too fat or too lean in the case of running out of fuel, fuel pressure or N2O. Our goal is to offer a simple to use and install naturally aspirated engine that will out perform the new supercharged cars. We think we've succeeded.
DARPA is developing the LS3 BigDog to help lessen the load-carrying
burden for the dismounted warfighter. Lightening the physical load on
Soldiers is one of the Army’s top S&T challenges. (Photo courtesy of DARPA Tactical Technology Office)
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The General Motors Zeta Platform was both the crowning achievement of GM’s Australian division – Holden, but also its swansong. Developed here, and sold as the VE-VF Commodore range, Zeta was to have underpinned a majority of GM’s premium and large models globally for all divisions.
Unfortunately, the GM bankruptcy of 2008 ruined all of that. The only other Zeta-derived production car was the Chevrolet Camaro.
The VE-VF though, was successful in Australia, the Commodore deriving sedan wagon, LWB and Utility versions.
The SS trim again noted the high-performance variants, which used the Chevrolet Gen4 pushrod V8 engine in 6.0 L capacity, producing 270 kW and 530 Nm. SS variants are identified by dual-dual exhaust outlets in the rear bumper.
In June 2013, the VE was replaced by a moderately restyled VF generation. As part of a 2015 VF II update, the SS migrated to the LS3 version of the Gen 4 V8. This saw a capacity increase to 6.2L, with power increasing to 304 kW and torque to 570 Nm.
2015 also saw the introduction of a special edition available on wagon and Ute, named ‘Sandman’ in reference to a similar stylistic trim pack available on the 1970s on the Kingswood full-size Holdens.