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Originally Posted by DevilsReject97
Nah, I just pasted part of it for the wording. Better than having to re-type it. As for the rest, it's going to help a lot more than you realize. If there was only that smidge of an improvement, GM wouldn't have even bothered to consider doing this for the Camaro. They also wouldn't have done it just for a minor 1/2 mile per gallon pick up.
They put a completely brand new, untested A10 in their halo muscle car for a reason. It works, and it works well. We've seen the results in the new GT's as well. The transmission produces results, is pretty stout from a reliability standpoint (thus far), and is good on fuel economy to boot.
The real truth is that extra gear will continue to help the Camaro charging down the strip where the previous one was starting to shut down. There's legitimately not much difference between a current Camaro and a current GT. They're roughly the same dimensions, the Camaro is a hair lighter, the GT a hair more power (roughly 10-15hp).
I fully expect to see a much more 11.9-12.0 run from the Camaro with this new transmission. Why? Because if you can knock off a tenth at launch and perhaps a .1-.2 down the track, the car could easily do that. We've already seen many repeatable low 12.1-12.2 out of the Camaro with the A8. And I really hope we see them running it cooler weather to boot, only because that's what the Mustangs did.
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It's hilarious you say that. The A8 made zero gains over the A6 when it came to straight line acceleration when they changed over for the C7, but did make mpg improvements from 16/28 to 16/29. And that with the A8 having a significant improvement in gearing over the A6.
The LT1 makes pretty good torque to where gearing improvements are less important. A tenth from launch improvement will absolutely not happen.