AFM fuse
Drifting
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It has valves in the exhaust! 🤦♂️. I used to say “knowledge is power”… the more you know the better prepared you are for anything in life…. But the more I read about my C8 “features”… the more I realize this is not a long term ownership proposition for me…. The heat cycles exhaust systems
go through are pretty hard on mechanical devices… the exhaust valves, the special lifters, other mechanical do dads and thousands of lines of software for some fractional improvement in mpg…
I realize all this added complexity (and potential for future failure) is because of government mandates but as good as the C8 is… it would be so much better if the design was based purely on logic and performance, with reasonable mpg expectations… vs EPA mandates that have no measurable impact on the environment….
the only answer is a software based solution… AFM
is only there to satisfy the EPA and adds nothing to the ownership experience. Since AFM comes online sporadically obviously there would be no harm in leaving it off if we had that ability.
go through are pretty hard on mechanical devices… the exhaust valves, the special lifters, other mechanical do dads and thousands of lines of software for some fractional improvement in mpg…
I realize all this added complexity (and potential for future failure) is because of government mandates but as good as the C8 is… it would be so much better if the design was based purely on logic and performance, with reasonable mpg expectations… vs EPA mandates that have no measurable impact on the environment….
the only answer is a software based solution… AFM
is only there to satisfy the EPA and adds nothing to the ownership experience. Since AFM comes online sporadically obviously there would be no harm in leaving it off if we had that ability.
