GM always manages to go cheap with something on one of their models. Whether it's putting ancient leaf-spring truck suspension into their sports cars, or putting plastic gears that easily strip for the headlight motors of the firebird and window motors of their F-body's. It's only been recently that GM has shown an improvement in quality and in their build material.
GM always manages to go cheap with something on one of their models. Whether it's putting ancient leaf-spring truck suspension into their sports cars, or putting plastic gears that easily strip for the headlight motors of the firebird and window motors of their F-body's. It's only been recently that GM has shown an improvement in quality and in their build material.
Plastic gears were in the headlight motors for the Corvette, too. I guess you could say they improved the quality by making sure the C6 didn't have headlight motors
Hey, as far as I'm concerned, the thread over at CF is a typical thread on any popular forum. Many people talking, most not knowing what they're talking about. I didn't see much authoritative commentary in the thread there.
Plastic gears were in the headlight motors for the Corvette, too. I guess you could say they improved the quality by making sure the C6 didn't have headlight motors
Hey, as far as I'm concerned, the thread over at CF is a typical thread on any popular forum. Many people talking, most not knowing what they're talking about. I didn't see much authoritative commentary in the thread there.
well, IMO I think some of the guys over there had some valid points. Like.. If GM swore by their leaf spring setup, then why dont they use them on their factory racing vettes? Looking at some of those pictures posted. Seems to me that the aluminum mounts do seem a little flimsy and could be beefed up more to accomadate coilovers. You have to remember that now your transfering all the weight onto the shock towers.
I get GM's logic with the composite leaf spring setup but what i don't get is that if coilovers are good enough for Ferrari and why can't they be good enough for a Vette?
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I get GM's logic with the composite leaf spring setup but what i don't get is that if coilovers are good enough for Ferrari and why can't they be good enough for a Vette?
lol it would be like Dodge putting a truck engine in the Viper lol
Oh wait. They did.
Actually, the first Viper concept debuted at the 1989 NAIAS, followed by prototypes; the late-1989 VM01 was powered by the 360 V8, but a V10 was already planned.
The early-1990 VM02 was powered by the 8-liter V10. The original V10 was reportedly built with the involvement of Lambourghini, which was partly owned by Chrysler at the time; the basic engineering was of course Chrysler’s, since it was based on the venerable 360, but Lambourghini worked on the cooling system, crankshaft balance, weight reduction, and fine tuning; the Italian automaker’s expertise in aluminum was also tapped, since the Viper had an aluminum block to save roughly 150 pounds of weight.
Unique features of the Viper version of the V-10, versus the truck engine, included a low-profile cross-ram intake with dual throttle bodies, the manifolds, oil pan, heads, and accessory drive; the compression ratio was raised, the pistons lightened, the maximum engine speed increased, the valves enlarged, the rods and crank strengthened. In the end, few components were shared with the truck engine.
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I don't see getting worked up over the truck engine comment. Even if Dodge did base the SRT10 powerplant on a truck engine, what manufacturer has not done this in the past? Ford will do it with their new Boss series of motors.
