Very mature...you should trade your Corvette (if you even own one) for a Corolla and drive it nice and slow and youlle get 500 mpg lol

 

Most of us don't drive around in park

Just sayin

Want it changed? Take it to any tuner, will take 2 minutes to change.

 

I teach high performance driving for the BMW and Porsche clubs, as well as a couple independent Track Day organizations in CA. I time trial on occasion and used to race wheel-to-wheel. I don't ever recall seeing you at any of the several dozen race tracks I've been on. I guess you were sitting in your driveway revving your engine

As I stated before, if you have such strong feelings about the car, use it as intended...which was not to sit in the driveway and rev the engine to 6 grand in park.

 

Let us know when you blow the hole in the side of your block , I guarantee that you can't rev a Ferrari to its red line out of gear

It's to early for an April fools joke and surly you can't be serious .........

 

Will someone please tune this guy's rev limiter out so he can enjoy himself. I'm anxious to see the results.

 

I did not ask what you did for a living, although that sounds awesome. However, since you drive them often you should know that Porsche nor BMW cut you off at a low rpm. My mother has a Panamera GTS and it lets you rev to redline in park, as it should. So do BMW's...I had a 650i GranCoupe....the point was that I cannot believe you all think its okay to not be able to rev your car in park lol...what era did you guys grow up in? Am I just young and dumb? (NO). Oh well this was pointless lol I was just wondering if all Corvettes did this sh-t or if it was just a 2013 thing...I guess they all do it so once again thank you for the help lol.

 

The only result would be the car would behave like every other brand's sports cars.

 

A lot of cars have this limiter built into traditional automatics to protect the engine and the wallets of the dealers while under warranty. If it's bothering you because you feel a lack of freedom from being told what you can and can't do with your property, then I half agree with you. But I can't see any performance benefit to revving a car in park. Next time get a manual and you can rev until your hearts delight. In the meantime, have it tuned out.

 

"A lot of cars have this" ... No, a lot of cars do NOT have this lol what is your source? Have you owned these "cars"? Like I said I have owned almost every high-end manufacturer's sports cars and they did NOT do this. It is NOT on a lot of cars, it is NOT to protect the engine, it is something one of the Attorneys thought would benefit and protect GM's wallets. If you havent been to a dealer lately, they could give a crap about YOU or your car lol. They are there to make money off you and tell you everything is broken and needs to be replaced or repaired.

 

On another note, most cars dont break while under warranty, they break when the warranty is expired or shortly there after.

 

I know that people who use these cars as intended don't sit in their driveway (or the pits at the race track) and rev them in park to 6k. To a person they would wonder what moron would do that and why.

I'm tired of your trolling, you keep working on getting your post count up. Let us know when you blow it up and your mom buys you a new one.

 

LOL 3 people pushing 1000 horsepower just gave you some good advice kid.
Come back after you throw a rod through your garage door

 

I wont list the cars I have owned or driven with it. I'm sure it's nowhere near as impressive as yours. You may have been fortunate enough to have owned almost every high-end manufacturer's sports cars and they did NOT do this. However a lot of other cars are equipped with this feature. A Google search will show you it is not uncommon and there are probably more cars with it than without it.

Did you read my post or did you just have an emotional reaction after the first sentence? Isn't that what I also said? And if you feel there is no inherent danger to the car, what do you think the attorneys are worried about? They obviously feel there is some potential risk. Even if it came about from 1 moron who blew his engine from over revving only to have the manufacturer warranty it.


I never made any implication the dealer cares about you or your car. You inferred that. I have a deep distrust for dealerships and their service departments.

I am not intelligent enough to be able to explain exactly why it is there or the potential catastrophic damage that may or may not occur without it. But logic tells me it is some type of safety net. And since I see no performance benefit endlessly revving my engine in park, I don't care. That being said. If it is bothersome to you, have it tuned out and enjoy. I'm not sure why you're getting so defensive and making assumptions about how people drive their cars based on whether they rev them in park or not.

 

Once it is out of the power train warranty GM doesn't care but until it is out of warranty they need to protect themselves from buttheads. It doesn't do the engine any good to rev it up in neutral.

Bill

 

First if all, manual transmissions are the same, it wont rev over 4000 RPM. The only reason i tried it was after reading here about it few years ago to see if it was the case. That is all. The reason GM and other manufacturers are doing this is because of people like the OP. i am quite sure they have seen this, someone will always abuse the car unnecessarily, rev it to 6k and dump the clutch, burn up the clutch in a hurry and take it back to the shop under warranty. Even in a brand new car in break in period. Or other possible damage. There are many other reasons why an engine that is not under load should be revved ti the max but i will not get into to that into that as it takes away from my point. For us, 99 percent of the corvette owners, this is no problem because we have no need/desire to just sit there and rev the **** out of the engine, we know better. The point is, these kind of measures are always put in place because of abusers, at a monetary cost to the GM, which is than distributed to all the purchasers like me.

 

You say that like it's a bad thng

 

It ain't good neither! There is an interesting you tube video online, the driving school at Las Vegas demonstrating how ( or attempting to) launch control should work. The driver puts the metal to the pedal, mind you it only revs up to somewhere north of 4000 RPM, dumps the clutch and crunch, the gear box is toast. The first gear got completely stripped. They had to move the car in second or Third gear. This is a procedure that is supposed to be safe to start with. With my back problems i cannot get in underneath and remove the rear half of the drive train, what would give me nightmares is a gm dealer doing this under my extended warranty and doing the very substandard job they are famous for.