skank

Do you all remember when Bigg Gunz came on LS1TECH and was explaining the electronic management of the LT1. He had all the tuners running in circles and messing with their heads. He then just vanished and was banned there after. He could have been a power train engineer planted to warn the tuners. The ZO6 is developed for the track first and foremost. I doubt drag and roll racing isn't even on their radar screen. Winning the 24 hrs of LeMans and developing the car for Europe is what's on their agenda. I can only imagine the power train engineers rolling their eye's while watching Ron of Vengeance pound the **** out of their brand new ZO6. This could all be just electronic management control for the break-in only.
http://ls1tech.com/forums/generation...m-block-2.html

keagan

I remember that guy, was the most excitement and info we had along with keeks, I know some bashed him and called him out on some of the info given but I do believe there was truth to it. He also stated that their were 3 iterations. Which i would believe, LT1, LT4 and another hi-po down the road. Only time will tell, I don't think we will have another keeks and big gunz for quite some time. I wish they allowed engineers to do a Q&A, even if it was just for an hour on the forum.

skank

Yes, he definitely seemed to be planted. Take a look at page 3 post #46 on the above LS1TECH forum link. He was definitely the real deal.

Chicago1

I'm gonna go with no on this one and its not their z06 it's Vengeance's vehicle to do as they please. I bet the eng don't give 2 flying ****s what people do as long as they buy the car...

skank

I didn't say it was their vehicle. Reread the sentence. Although I can see where you took my comment differently. If you read some of the LS1TECH thread of BIGG GUNZ comments he discusses this very behavior of beating on a brand new car and how GM will control this immature behavior by controlling the ECM. Read it. It's all there.

Toilets

Granted however GM certainly would not have done this on the test cars at road atlanta in fear of poor numbers and press and those cars also had heat soak issues

Chicago1

oooops Thanks for correcting me I did reread it I now see where you are coming from.I had read it the other way around thanks for the clarification..

skank

No Problem. If you have time read some of Bigg Gunz posts on the above link. He talks about how GM will control the ECM. Very enlightening !!!

Mr. Gizmo

Your right the c7 z is all about the track.

Yes that is what displacement on demand
Motors are all about. --- the track.

And if gm would have slapped a bunch of ground effects on a
Delta 88 in 1977 -- we can say gm designed
That car all about the track. Same thing for
The smokey and the bandit trans am. Those
Ground effects were all about the track.

RoadRebel

Even a broken clock is right twice a day...enuf said.

_M_

This

455230

Big Nutz was just a troll having fun......

dvandentop

i think he was the real deal

briannutter1

Guys, he was eventually caught in outright lies once Calibrators working to tune the Lt1 achieved expectations. 585 x 1.12 is 655. No pot of gold at the end of our rainbow. His trolling will go down in history.

2003Evo

Just an assumption but he sounded like a fresh out of college engineer who had a passion for cars and got a job at GM as some kind of application engineer. From reading his stuff I can tell those are powertrain/calibration terms that he uses...he didnt know shiiit just a dumb kid who learned the termanology while working at GM. Some of that stuff doesnt even make sense. I see these stuff all the times with powertrain newbies

Bill Dearborn

Which ones had the heat soak issues? All I know is Randy Pobst had a problem with the engine oil overheating. Not exactly a heat soak issue.

Bill

skank

He could have been one of the younger power train engineers involved. He sure acted cocky. But he also revealed certain things that have come true. The E85 ECM issue, previewing the LT4 when it wasn't revealed at the time.
If you read all 50 some pages of that thread he certainly dropped some info that proved true. He admitted to be on the software side and not the hardware side so it makes sense of his ECM knowledge.

ChucksZ06

I followed that thread for a while...until it became obvious he was full of crap. There are a few guys on this forum that remind me of him...constantly writing, as though they are knowledgeable, what they do not understand.

ChucksZ06

Bill, don't you think the downforce this car has and the engine always working harder than in previous cars which had less drag is a part of this problem. The hp level, the drag, the supercharger all add heat. In my experience it takes a large engine oil cooler to keep a 600 hp engine happy when you are running it hard. I needed to move a lot of oil through a big cooler to keep temps in check. It is amazing how fast the oil heats up.

phantasms

As to the RA test cars isn't they why they put two coolers on the automatics? Those were pre production cars from a while back. I'd be surprised if they didn't have heating issues with those automatics.