Transaxle fluid top-up for racing?!
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Transaxle fluid top-up for racing?!
Would someone well qualified from the BG assembly or engineering dept. please tell me exactly WHY the C8 comes with a deficit of oil in the transaxle for performance purposes?
It appears to be a royal PITA to add a simple couple quarts if you intend to track the car, so why doesn't the car just come filled with the amount of oil needed to race in the first place? For Gods sake it's a CORVETTE, intended to be, marketed to be, and advertised to be, a PERFORMANCE car, hopefully right off the showroom floor, Z51 or not. Damn, it's frustrating to even think about it. I would think that the cost of only a couple more quarts of oil isn't going to break the bank of a prospective buyer of a $70,000 car even if the cost is a hundred dollars a quart. The time, trouble, frustration, and inconvenience is certainly worth avoiding having to do-it-yourself. Do the bean counters really have that much of a grip on the engineers to override common sense? Geeeze....
Just so I'm not too misunderstood, I've owned Corvettes for nearly 50 years (since '72), and out of the eight that I've owned I've special-ordered six of them, so this issue is a strange one to me.
It appears to be a royal PITA to add a simple couple quarts if you intend to track the car, so why doesn't the car just come filled with the amount of oil needed to race in the first place? For Gods sake it's a CORVETTE, intended to be, marketed to be, and advertised to be, a PERFORMANCE car, hopefully right off the showroom floor, Z51 or not. Damn, it's frustrating to even think about it. I would think that the cost of only a couple more quarts of oil isn't going to break the bank of a prospective buyer of a $70,000 car even if the cost is a hundred dollars a quart. The time, trouble, frustration, and inconvenience is certainly worth avoiding having to do-it-yourself. Do the bean counters really have that much of a grip on the engineers to override common sense? Geeeze....
Just so I'm not too misunderstood, I've owned Corvettes for nearly 50 years (since '72), and out of the eight that I've owned I've special-ordered six of them, so this issue is a strange one to me.
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Why don't you pose the question to ASK TADGE??
. Hes the one that should know why it is the way it is.
If he cant answer it, maybe he will be able to make it right for the next model year.
BC
. Hes the one that should know why it is the way it is.
If he cant answer it, maybe he will be able to make it right for the next model year.
BC
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I totally understand (and agree) that meeting the EPA MPG targets is vital to the Corvette avoiding the "gas guzzler tax", and as a non-racer" I see the point. I'll gladly relent on my rant about it now that a reasonable explanation has been provided. A big THANKS for the clarification!
