Better reliability than Porsche and Toyota. IMO, Porsche and Toyota were pushing things hard, while the simple by comparison Gibson V8s were able to take advantage of developments made over the years to get a fairy high revving flat crank V8 to be reliable.
And the GK428 V8 shares it lineage with the ZB408 that was a disaster in the Panoz LMP07, though in all disclosure, that whole car was a disaster, with only the paddle shift system being recycled on the LMP1 roadster face lift in '02.
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