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At the 2:30 mark, Hofer backs the 525-horsepower V8 C8 out of the garage, to which Quirin says, almost disappointedly, “It’s relatively quiet.I thought she’d be louder.” Patience, sir.
It’s a C8 Chevy Corvette with a direct-injected, 8.1-liter big-block running variable valve timing, all thought up by Larry Hofer—a General Motors performance guru who literally wrote a book ...
But if there's anyone on planet Earth capable of making it happen, it's Larry Hofer. The man literally wrote a manual on how to tune and modify 8.1-liter Vortec V8 s and their related 496-cubic ...
Larry and Brigitta Hofer of Bridgewater will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on October 22, 2016. They have three daughters, Kelly (Brian) Hefti, Stephanie (Michael) ...
One of his latest books is on the Chevrolet 8.1 Vortec / 496, making Hofer the perfect candidate for performing the world’s first C8 Corvette Big Block swap. Naturally, a project like this is no ...
Then there's San Diego, California's Larry Hofer and his personal vision of Big League extremism-an 8.1 liter (that's 496 cubic-inches for the metrically-challenged), big-block-powered '99 ...
It's been 50 years since Chevrolet last put a big block V8 in a Corvette from the factory. If you ask long-time engine tuner and full-time American muscle fanatic Larry Hofer, that's a shame.
When Larry Brown became head coach of the New York Knicks back in 2005, there was real hope he could help the club get back to its winning ways of the late ’80s and ’90s. After all, he had led ...
Dallas Cowboys Hall of Fame offensive lineman Larry Allen died suddenly Sunday while on vacation in Mexico with his family, the team says. He was 52. "The Jones family and the Cowboys extend their ...
It’s alive! It’s aliiive! And it can be driven! Not that there was any doubt in the passion project that put an 8.1-liter big block into a C8 Corvette.If anyone was gonna make the ballsy ...
Larry and Karen Hofer, of Sioux Falls, will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on June 26 with an open house from 2-4:30pm at Central Baptist Church, 3102 W. Ralph Rogers Rd., Sioux Falls, SD.