[94turbolsx]

I couldnt tell on my iphone but at home with good headphones at the 34 sec mark you can clearly hear the blower whine. The birds are a separate sound. What a bummer the Z/28 appears to not be NA.

[BaylorCamaro]

Originally Posted by Mr. Wyndham

It's not so much heat soak, but overheating the transmission...and this issue was addressed with larger coolers...besides the fact that the ZL1 features significantly more cooling than the Corvette has to work with. I very much doubt it will have a problem...

Every single road course event that I've gone to that has had a C7 Z06 has had them overheat (except for one) and it is the engine overheating and going into limp mode. Not the transmission.

[Bhobbs]

Let's hope the rumors of a 700+ hp GT500 aren't true. It wouldn't be good for GM to leave the GT350R unchallenged and then get smoked by a much more powerful GT500.

[RLHMARINES]

Originally Posted by Bhobbs

Let's hope the rumors of a 700+ hp GT500 aren't true. It wouldn't be good for GM to leave the GT350R unchallenged and then get smoked by a much more powerful GT500.

Camaro verses everyone............not worried at all.

[mkorgan]

Whine or no whine...I couldn't care less. Get this thing tested and back to the States so I know how much I need to spend to get it.

[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by 2SSRS@Gen5diy

Car is N.A. there not going to add 100LB to a track car.

I agree with you... no whine.

Originally Posted by Salespunk

Yep understood but I thought they would be using the media blasted wheels already. To me it says that this car is putting down WAY more power than the Gen 5 and hooking up HARD.

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It's not the acceleration doing it... it's those big honkin' brakes.

[Salespunk]

Originally Posted by Mr Twisty

It's not the acceleration doing it... it's those big honkin' brakes.

Tires are rotated the wrong way for it to be caused by the brakes.

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[Mr Twisty]

Originally Posted by Salespunk

Tires are rotated the wrong way for it to be caused by the brakes.

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Just saw that, I stand corrected, my apologies.... unless they rotated 357 degrees lol

[GrimReaperSS]

I gotta wonder how many GM engineers are reading this thread and just laughing. "Look at how much we've got them speculating and arguing". I know I would be having so much fun messing with Forum members if I was them.
Back on topic - I was a bit disappointed by the exhaust note, didn't sound anything more agressive to me than the NPP on an SS. I was listening on my phone, but.... was hoping for more raw, race ready exhaust note.

[GreaseMonkey83]

Definately sounds NA to me. Its decelerating @ 0:34 sec in... probably gear whine in the trans, brakes, or tires humming. I would like to see a Direct injected ls7 in this thing. Good god would that be BAF.

[GrimReaperSS]

There's a video by Car Scoops that has the 5th gen Z/28 and the 6th Gen 1LE in the video as well. The exhaust note between the supposed 6th gen Z/28 and the 1LE don't sound any different under acceleration. The Z does have a nice deep burble at low speed though, noticeable when it enters/exits the GM center.
https://youtu.be/uvb54SQRC2U

[aa406079]

Anyone else notice how jury rigged the rear wing struts look? In fact they look suspiciously height adjustable... liek they still havent found the sweet spot for their placement....

[Sven59]

Originally Posted by aa406079

Anyone else notice how jury rigged the rear wing struts look? In fact they look suspiciously height adjustable... liek they still havent found the sweet spot for their placement....

I think they are height adjustable and you can lower them completely to the body. If you look at the shape of the spoiler it looks like it was designed that way.

[KarFan]

Originally Posted by bballr4567

That's the rub though. Tadge outright admits that the Z06 was completely the wrong name for the Corvette to use. GM wanted to name the ZL1 Z/28 in the 5th gen but word got out and people knew it was the wrong thing to do. GM came up with ZL1 and created a new brand.

Yes he did admit to this and yet it still happened. And as you have explained it was after GM realized their error and renamed the supercharged 5th Gen a ZL1.
In the enthusiast eyes if this Camaro ends up LT4 powered then it should be called ZL1.R or something other than Z/28.

I just get the feeling from recent GM marketing decisions that they want to use the Z/28 name more than sticking to it's original formula so using LT4 won't be a big deal to them.

Originally Posted by Posaune

Different teams with different benchmarks and needs.

Development was happening on another N/A V8 for the C7Z, in the end they went with the LT4. Camaro team wouldn't have had to start from scratch for a more powerful N/A engine for the Z/28.

Kinda.. Z06 and Z/28 are essentially the same formula or was .... If GM had any other N/A V8 option above LT1 these two would have been the correct applications for it like the previous generation. The LT4 going into ZL1, CTS-V and ZR1 variant was easy to see. The fact that a more powerful N/A engine wasn't used in Z06 and potentially even another application ATS-V and not Z/28 so far says the business case just wasn't there for it.

I hope to be wrong as a LT based Voodoo competitor would be amazing.