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Sunday, February 22, 2015

Tadge Juechter backtracking and flip flopping once again about track worthiness of 2015 Corvette C7 Z06

Two things are already very obvious regarding the seventh generation of Corvette C7: the flagship Z06 is not worth jack shit as a track car and the chances of getting an honest and straight answer from +Tadge Juechter are exactly the same as getting such answer from the douchebag Barrack Hussein Obama Jr.

As already pointed out here, Juechter should be seriously considering picking up a side job doing stand up, he is certainly funny and entertaining enough.

When asked about the performance killing overheating and heat soak, this is what the current chief of Corvette disaster had to say:

  • The Z06 Manual is designed to keep engine oil, coolant, transmission and differential fluids below the hot warning targets when driven by a professional on a 30C day (86F) on a "typical" racetrack for an indefinite period of time (effectively the time to burn through a full tank of fuel). Our team validates the durability of the Z06 cooling systems with a 24hr accumulated track test to simulate the most aggressive track-day usage by our customers.

  • Really Tadge?  This is exactly the same bullshit answer you gave months ago, long before Z06 crapped out in Atlanta and the Z06 porker took the shit at 85 degrees AFTER FOUR LAPS.  What the fuck is the capacity of the fuel tank?  2 gallons?  And Tadge, before spouting off about the testing at 86 degrees, how about define the other conditions such as ALTITUDE and HUMIDITY?  Do you understand how humidity affects performance of the car and that 86 degrees at 90 percent humidity is not the same as at 5 percent?   

  • We designate our track: the Milford Road Course, as the "typical" standard, but recognize that there are tracks around the world which are easier on a cooling system and some which are harder on a cooling system. Generally speaking, tighter tracks with lower average speed and higher sustained RPM, will drive higher fluid system temperatures.

  • Really Tadge?  So Nurburgring no longer is a design standard for you?  Generally speaking you are really full of shit.  Apparently Milford is the design standard because it is short enough for Z06 not to fall apart and allegedly the car performed better than the ZR1?  How about Willow Springs or Laguna Seca or Atlanta?  Oh, not typical because the new porker cannot cut it there?  LMAO

  • Higher temperature ambient conditions affects all car's abilities to run sustained laps at ten-tenths.

  • Great English right there.  Is this a claim that heat affects ALL cars?  Well yeah, no shit right there, this is some of the cars take it in account by their designers to MINIMIZE this problem-obviously not the case with Z06.

  • The Z06 Automatic transmission put in "Drive" selects the lowest possible gear ratio for best acceleration, and because it has 8 closely-spaced ratios typically runs higher average RPM than the manual. This optimizes lap time performance, but also taxes the engine oil and coolant more for any given track. So the automatic has the capability to run faster laps than the manual, but thermal limitations are reached more quickly. Customers who are planning to run extended track-day sessions at 'professional' speeds, are advised to go with the manual transmission, or to paddle shift the automatic and select higher gears when conditions warrant it.

  • OK Tadge, so what does this exactly mean?  The automatic is good for half tank of fuel or has to run at lower ambient than the manual version and what is exactly the point of automatic transmission if the only way that it can function on the track is with paddles controlling it?  What happens if someone uses paddles to run the car at even higher RPM's than the transmission in automatic mode allows?  Good for one lap at Milford at least?  And how about that transmission fluid heating up along with the engine oil and coolant?  Could the undersized torque converter be a problem here?

    And if the car can run faster but craps out considerably sooner, how on Earth can it be considered a faster track car?  Is the tow truck necessary for any track events?  Oh and Tadge, if the automatic transmission causes all these problems, you and your team fucked up big time and this would be a great time to start deceiving the buyers through those bogus advertisements.  How about that POS undersized heat pump aka supercharger issue?  All quiet on this account?  Really too bad, this may be a good time to fess up and admit the biggest failure of them all instead of sugarcoating the problem and pointing fingers somewhere else.  Certainly, not a behavior expected from someone claiming to be all about Corvette and its greatness.

    4 comments:

    1. It would be nice to see a long term road test followed by some track time. If the cooling system is not sufficient when the car is new, I bet after some of the normal damage you get using the car like rock dings, road grime, and other items that are suck into and stuck to the air coolers, the car would really over heat. It is rare for a car to be good on the track and the road, funny thing is the Z06 is not very good in either element. Stick with a the Porsche

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      1. GM went cheap with Z06, it is merely a supercharged Stingray, right down to the same radiator. There is no need to wait to see the results of this cheap approach.

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    2. Garbage Motors just threw this car together like the rest of their junk.buy a Shelby and be happy with a better made car.

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      1. Absolutely agreed. The latest 850 hp Super Snake costs the same if not less than the Z06 failure.

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