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Safety Car
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From: Vancouver WA
GM's powertrain warranty is a Joke IMO. Just go read the C6 Z06 guys that has broke a valve spring on a bone stock motor and had there warranty terminated for anything the dealer can find that shows any kind of abuse. (Like rubber in the wheelwell).
Safety Car
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From: Woodbridge Ontario
Not many people know, but the S54 motor has a computer that keeps track of the rpm of the car over the last 40 seconds of the motor running, if you have SMG tranny how often the launch control's been used, and the seconds or minutes the motor's been over 6500rpm.
Several people had their warranty voided with blown motors when the BMW techs had this print-out showing exessive high rpm's.
I don't see why GM can't come up with something similar. Technology's there, and a LS9 setup would make it an ideal canidate.
Melting Slicks
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From: Chicagoland Area IL
I owned a E46 M3 before I had my Vette.
Not many people know, but the S54 motor has a computer that keeps track of the rpm of the car over the last 40 seconds of the motor running, if you have SMG tranny how often the launch control's been used, and the seconds or minutes the motor's been over 6500rpm.
Several people had their warranty voided with blown motors when the BMW techs had this print-out showing exessive high rpm's.
I don't see why GM can't come up with something similar. Technology's there, and a LS9 setup would make it an ideal canidate.
Not many people know, but the S54 motor has a computer that keeps track of the rpm of the car over the last 40 seconds of the motor running, if you have SMG tranny how often the launch control's been used, and the seconds or minutes the motor's been over 6500rpm.
Several people had their warranty voided with blown motors when the BMW techs had this print-out showing exessive high rpm's.
I don't see why GM can't come up with something similar. Technology's there, and a LS9 setup would make it an ideal canidate.
Now disabling OnStar is fairly easy
.It will be interesting how HP tuners does with this PCM and how much reverse engineering they will be willing to invest.
Mike
Last edited by Skunkworks; Nov 27, 2007 at 11:42 PM.
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From: Fayetteville AR
I owned a E46 M3 before I had my Vette.
Not many people know, but the S54 motor has a computer that keeps track of the rpm of the car over the last 40 seconds of the motor running, if you have SMG tranny how often the launch control's been used, and the seconds or minutes the motor's been over 6500rpm.
Several people had their warranty voided with blown motors when the BMW techs had this print-out showing exessive high rpm's.
I don't see why GM can't come up with something similar. Technology's there, and a LS9 setup would make it an ideal canidate.
Not many people know, but the S54 motor has a computer that keeps track of the rpm of the car over the last 40 seconds of the motor running, if you have SMG tranny how often the launch control's been used, and the seconds or minutes the motor's been over 6500rpm.
Several people had their warranty voided with blown motors when the BMW techs had this print-out showing exessive high rpm's.
I don't see why GM can't come up with something similar. Technology's there, and a LS9 setup would make it an ideal canidate.
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Team Owner
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From: Somewhere between mild insanity and complete psychosis
My hope would be they simply follow Ford's formula and just build the motor to the hilt. Give the customer what they want! It really wouldn't cost much. If I can buy a nice set of pistons for $500-$600 for my 1 car, GM can get them a hell of a lot cheaper ordering or making enough for a production run in the thousands.
Melting Slicks
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From: Tinker till it blows... then back it off a notch, maybe!!
St. Jude Donor '08
I guess that there are only so many ways to fit IC's in there, so in that the cat is out of the bag.....
That is pretty much how i have my twin IC's arranged in my whipple setup......except that my cores are copper and 3" thick (direction of flow)
Oh well.....
Considering that most other cores are a single 2" thick alu core, and that my IAT's were quite decent, I imagine that this should be a decent setup
That is pretty much how i have my twin IC's arranged in my whipple setup......except that my cores are copper and 3" thick (direction of flow)
Oh well.....
Considering that most other cores are a single 2" thick alu core, and that my IAT's were quite decent, I imagine that this should be a decent setup
