2016 Chevrolet Corvette C7 Stingray and C7 Z06 DO NOT OFFER oil separator available on 2016 Chevrolet Camaro

Oil ingestion is a fact of life for Chevrolet Corvette and many other +General Motors products ever since the idiotic integrated PCV system became part of the GM V8 standard equipment.  This blog mentioned the unavoidable oil ingestion problems related to the flaw of this system and its impacts on engine durability and decrease in performance, in the past.

The problem that persisted on the sixth generation of Corvette, became considerably worse with the latest generation of Corvette due to the AFM included with LT1 and LT4 engines.   In fact, the multitude of problems expanded from oil ingestion to catastrophic engine breakdowns, on the account of AFM alone.  What makes the matter worse is the fact that in addition to using AFM, Direct Injection is employed as well.  On top of oil ingestion, there is the inevitable valve coking and caking, present on all direct injected motors but usually minimized by so called "clean PCV" systems.
In case of LT1 and LT4, the PCV was as dirty as these systems can get, resulting in constant and secured income source for so called CATCH CAN manufacturers.

However, there is a very interesting development here, not from +Tadge Juechter and other truly worthless Corvette team members but from the Camaro team.

The newest generation of Camaro, based on Cadillac ATS/CTS platform has been burdened with the same shitty AFM and DI equipped turds as the rest of the GM line up, no more LS3 or LS7 or LSx offerings for Camaro-certainly, not a great news for the Camaro team.

But... Camaro team did something that Juechter did not, it incorporated a street legal oil separator as the part of its standard LT1 engine package.  Obviously, not only did the Camaro folks admitted a problem but also decided to do something about it, unlike the Corvette team.   The Camaro performance pack includes none other than OIL SEPARATOR, a catch can of sorts, compensating for the inadequate PCV system while recycling the collected oil back to the oil pan.  At the same time, the design of the oil pan incorporates sufficient baffles to allow the Camaro to be a track car without resorting to the weight adding and still inadequate GM's dry sump oil system imitation.  

For the record, Camaro offered oil separator on Camaro since 2013 but it was offered as an off road equipment only, requiring the car owner to disable the existing PVC system and amounted to a big PIA.  Nevertheless, it was available on Camaro and of course, never seen on the Corvette.

This blog found out about the oil separator for 2016 Camaro back in April and waited patiently to see if the 2016 Corvette performance option list includes the add on version but it never did.  Ironically enough, even the TRACK CONCEPT displayed at SEMA failed to include this option.  As the 2017 approaches, the chances of Juechter getting off his lazy and incompetent ass and doing something about it are about zero, leaving the select few track oriented Corvette owners no other choice but to switch to Camaro as their next track car, should they insist on being bound by their GM ties somehow.

Truly, a real shame but again, not exactly a surprise that a basic element of valid track oriented option would be omitted from the Corvette offerings under Tadge Juechter.

"We asked about any special engineering for the LT1 in the Camaro and Link pointed to the air/oil separator as, “an unsung hero of the car. We developed a legit air/oil separator for the LT1. That was near and dear to my heart. I spent a lot of time on that one.” As all Camaro LT1s will be wet-sump engines, Link told us the air/oil separator is cleverly packaged, so it’s hard to appreciate in the car. Its function is to keep oil out of the airbox and throttle-body—and therefore the combustion chamber—avoiding pre-ignition."