petermj

Seems like they do know. Maybe they are not releasing the actual data because real life refuses to validate the claims and time is running out to deliver on them? If the real weight distribution is slightly rear biased, this is a good thing, not sure why this is not included in GM official release...

b4i4getit

They have a few months to wrestle some specifications. If they can't meet some of the "estimated" numbers they have put forth you can look for a softening of claims by their marketing machine.

petermj

Yes, agreed. If chief engineer quoted 48/52 and official release states 50/50 this may be an indicator that their activities involve parts of the car that add weight, not to mention any numbers involving the total weight of the car.

BlueOx

Maybe they like making you wait...

Racer X

OK, since you believe nothing GM claims, I won't bring something GM has claimed about the battery placement. Have you even read threads on the releases on the car? The supporting documents they have released. Have looked at any of the pictures that people other than GM have released? Have you looked at the pictures of the engine compartment? There are pictures of the engine compartment with and without the dry sump. Tell me genius, where is the battery in those pictures? Surely a great engineer as yourself can identify the components under the hood. Or do you need someone to point out the engine to you?

So if it's not under the hood, and they have previously place it in the rear on the Z06, I wonder where they put it. The rest of us have figured it out before GM claimed where it is.

Here are some pictures. If this isn't enough for you, do your own research.

And still you have provided no specifics about exactly the information that will satisfy you.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c7-g...he-rear-3.html

Please point to something positive you have added to any thread in the C7 section.

petermj

Is this a joke? Are you saying the battery is located behind the driver? Is this a RHD car? Maybe the car runs off Energizer AAA cell? Anyone of you understand this would be a truly dumb location for a battery? It is not too late for you and others to at least try to understand what you are looikiing at

Racer X

It is in the same place as the C6 Z06, the rear of the passenger side of the cargo area.

Are you really that dense?

BlueOx

GM says it's a 6.2 V8...where is the independent vertification? Looks like the long rumored 5.5 to me. More marketing BS!

petermj

Then peel the carpet off unless you expect me to have xray vision. I enjoyed looking at the pic of the hatch carpeting immensly. Assuming the battery is indeed in the rear, is this only for sump equipped cars to offset the weight increase upfront or for all of them? Get your crystal ball out and spread a few more prophecies again. With mouthpieces like you, GM may save money on their PR expenses.

Supersonic 427

I heard in an interview from Harlan Charles that the battery will be in the rear compartment for all C7's. Dry sump or not. Weight distibution I suppose.

petermj

Rumors work only among people like you, others prefer FACTS. Seems like you and others are afraid they will be getting less of a car than promised when the actual facts are provided? No other explanation why you would be spending your time attacking others?



fact (fkt)
n.
1. Knowledge or information based on real occurrences
2. Something demonstrated to exist or known to have existed
3. A real occurrence

petermj

And yet somehow the weight distribution will be always 50/50? This is pretty interesting... I can only go by the info GM publishes.

BlueOx

What's the problem? It's exactly as much GM BS as you are yammering about with the frame. You don't have anything more 'independently' verified about that engine than you do the frame.

I'm not afraid of anything related to the C7 but you sure seem to be. If it isn't what I want, I won't buy one.

petermj

The problem is that after my experience from switching between LS2 and LS3, I want to see a PROOF instead of assurances and innuendos. Hope you can understand this part. If GM does not want to do the leg work to convince me, I'll look somewhere else, unlike the enthusiastic mob you seem to represent so well.

lt4obsesses

Come to think of it, I haven't seen any independent sources claiming that the engine is actually a V8, or really that there is an engine in there at all. Just looks like a plastic cover to me. Is there REALLY anything under it? And then this claim about four wheels, am I really expected to believe this without scientific documantation?

petermj

No brains required to be a clown

Aaron Keating

For all we know there's a Northstar under the hood!

BlueOx

You have said numerous times you don't believe GM's BS. Who is going to be your independent verifier for everything?

Sure, I am enthusiastic about the C7, that's why I'm on a C7 Forum. I was and still am enthusiastic about my C6 and some other generations. I generally believe what I hear from team Corvette, having met a number of them over the years. I'm not a fan of folks who call them liars without a darn good reason to.

As an '05 LS2 owner, I never thought much about the LS3 as it really wasn't enough of a change to get excited about in my mind.

MikeyTX

"Are you saying I'm fat?"

MikeyTX

'Cause they know it wigs out the boo birds .......