If little knowledge can be a dangerous thing, full ignorance regarding 2015 Corvette C7 Z06 can be right down entertaining

The amount of minformation and the number of false prophets announcing revelations regarding the heat soak plaguing the newest +General Motors flagship, Corvette C7 Z06 is right down mind boggling.  The heat soak is a fact for the newest flagship, it is a fact for all cars and it is especially negatively felt in cars using forced induction, especially supercharging (the difference here exists mainly due to the parasitic nature of supercharger that puts an extra load on the engine rotating assembly). 

The heat soak itself is a very misunderstood creature, with the majority of enthusiasts associating the heat soak with rising operating temperatures of a running engine.  Of course, this is not what the heat soak is all about.  Given insufficient engine cooling design, the engine oil and coolant temperatures can jump long before any heat soak is ever present.

So what is heat soak about?  To put it in simple terms, the heat soak is about loss of efficiency due to sustained rise in operating temperatures and it is typically manifested by engine's tendency to run at higher than expected oil and coolant temperatures and either take longer to dissipate the heat or not dissipate it at all.     Once again, it is all about loss of efficiency, with hotter engine being less efficient (and durable) than one that dissipates the heat quickly and capable of keeping fluids at acceptable temperatures. 

With an engine using forced induction, the effects of heat build related efficiency loss are considerably more profound than with a normally aspirated counterpart.  The reason for this is of course the boost related temperature rise, this is unavoidable and the higher the boost, the higher the rise in the compressed air temperature.    As already mentioned in this blog on many occasions, the warmer this air is, the less oxygen content it will have, making the engine very susceptible to detonation.  When oxygen depletion takes place, the engine management goes into protective mode, retarding the timing and ultimately decreasing the available engine power. 

Fast forward to Corvette C7 Z06: this car BY DESIGN is predisposed to heat soak.  What does this car have that makes it so suspectible?   The car is not only supercharged but it is supercharged using a very small supercharger, fit for an engine 1/4th of its size.  To compensate for small size, the supercharger spins faster and generates a high level of boost.  To top it off, the engine itself has a high compression, considerably higher than common sense would dictate in a supercharged induction.  Then, the car has not just questionable but truly shitty engine and coolant systems, not just undersized but also designed to be as inefficient as possible. 

Now, fast forward once again, this time to the misinformation and those false prophets...

+Tadge Juechter himself already admitted to a very limited temperature range suitable for this car's advertized superior track performance, apparently good to 85 degrees.  Thus, the heat dissipation and heat soak problems are already identified by the genius in charge of the new flagship.

However, like with everything else, there are those who will insist, in spite of this admission that there is no problem with the car.  In fact, there is a large number of these people out there who strive to make a name for themselves undertaking this moronic task. 

Here is the newest numbnut, apparently the best thing to the automotive world since the sliced bread and ironically enough the same numbnut who distinguished himself through illegal "roll racing" demonstrating the advantages of his manhood extension, Generation 5 Dodge Viper over none other than the flagship turd, Z06. 

Apparently, he decided to test the claims of Z06 heat soak on nothing less than DYNAMOMETER.  Apparently after running several "dyno runs" he found no evidence of heat soak and the subsequent horsepower loss.  Really?  This is not a novel approach out there, broadly applied in many fields, with the prophets claiming that if they cannot find the problem, the problem does not exist.   Like with any other field where this flawed logic is applied, only someone very intellectually limited would be mistaking inability to detect a problem with its absence. 

The problem here is the method to detect the problem is flawed and incapable of generating a scenario where this problem could be intercepted.  Of course, if the problem was detected on the dyno, it would be considerably worse in the real life, making the new turd impossible to drive but apparently this numbnut does not understand this part. To the credit of characters like this unmentioned nineball, the entertainment keeps coming in while all the problems with the turdship are readily resolved on the dyno.  LMAO