C7 comments by Doug Fehan
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C7 comments by Doug Fehan
His comments on C7 are toward the end of this video.
http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2011/...gs-doug-fehan/
http://www.corvetteblogger.com/2011/...gs-doug-fehan/
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Fascinating - notice how animated he gets at 3:56 talking about the seq shift trans and again at 12:34 on tech transfer. I think C7 is going to be one cool beast on the tech front. Let's hope the body comes out nice.
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I hear ya, but what are you going to do. It's just the way things evolve. Like the folks who mastered Wordperfect, or us ex. spec ops guys who mastered the art of real warfare, vs the virtual warfare environment of today. Already, today's F1 driver would be fumbling his/her way around a hewland box from 30 years ago. M. Schumy, talent and all, would be tripping all over himself in the 1968 Le Mans Ferrari. So all that is already happening. And I have to confess that, as much as I am a steadfast gate-crasher and as good at it as I am, I still have that moment of " wouldn't a manumatic be cool because it's auto when you want it and really fast in manual mode". In any case, it has to go that way for Corvette to keep up, if for no other reason than the fact that these boxes include REAL launch control. The Ferrari 458 trans accounts for almost 1sec of that car's 0-60 advantage. Even greater advantage with the GTR. Corvette has to go this way.
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Part of why I bought a Corvette is because it was low tech regarding operation. I enjoy rowing my own, and knowing that when push comes to shove I could service the car myself.
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Unless you own an early Corvette, they are not low tech. Today you need the proper computer to read codes or you can't service your own that easy. Oil change, spark plug change, normal mechanical stuff yes. But cars today are so much more complex than in the 50s, 60s and early 70s.
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Also, all C5 Corvettes, at least, are able to display the computer codes in the DIC at the push of a button. I'm not sure why C6's don't have that feature. In any case, Corvettes are still way easier to work on than many other "high tech" sports cars.
