Ooof, yeah I can totally see that drawing the ire of people. At least it wasn’t a valve spring failure making the LT2 commit seppuku on the track.

Not having a means of selecting neutral easily is such a pita.

Just hope you don’t ever have to have a C8 towed. It has an electrically activated parking prawl. If the car is dead, which some of these are wont to do, you need a $600 tool to engage neutral and you have to manually hold it in place until you’re done rolling it about.

Yup, I work in the automotive aftermarket. The companies that bet all in and had their stuff manufactured overseas have had to shutter and send home excess staff or out of business.

Meanwhile US based manufacturing companies that us US sourced materials like Motion Raceworks and ICT Billet, Vorshlag Motorsports, etc.…

I wish I had a better means of tracking it and specific timelines.  Some other OSINT twitter accounts might, there’s a lot of cool ship tracking and military equiment tracking that goes on there.

2nd gear: Look at all the container ships waiting to get in and offload at Long Beach. That’s a lot of overseas manufactured car parts just waiting to make it to the assembly line.  It was so bad that GM had to fly in their SUV/Truck wheels.

Yeah, that’s the point I was trying to make but seemed to fall short.  They UZ swap stuff left and right.

The LS is still not super common over in New Zealand tho.  It’s just like dudes taking BMW inline sixes and swapping them in everything up in Scandanavia.  Use what’s readily available.

40 to 50-ish wheel horsepower gain over stock with just ITBs and open exhaust isn’t bad at all.

I mean, part of the joy of watching drag boats is the ridiculous sound of them on the water, but they run for just a matter of seconds.  A change to a batch of sprint races for an event could work nicely.

The ATS-V came along after GM moved to the Gen V LT architecture. I’ve been crowing for a 427cid Gen V LT “LT7" since back when they released the C7 Grand Sport. The C8 would be a monstrosity with a pushrod 427 LT. At work, we’ve made well over 700 at the crank with a stroked LT block in the 427 side of things.

People…

“500 miles” followed by “eight-to-nine hours of highway driving”

Texans:

I like to toss in betwixt every once in awhile to see people’s eyes twitch.

I’d heard they were at Yellowstone before he drove that van back. First thing that came to mind was the “Zone of Death” where there’s some weird loophole regarding prosecution of felonies.

And we shall all sing praises to Raptor Jesus.

Meanwhile Audi is like, “Nein, zat is much too silly.”

Jalopnik 1st Gear on Monday:
GM Files suit against Subaru for IP infringement due to excessive use of ABS body cladding on new WRX.

Covid

Well yeah other gas powered cars can go faster, there’s curb weight as well as if you watch how a Tesla accelerates, it loses chooch up top. One reason why the CobraJet EV uses a 2-speed powerglide, it keeps the car in the sweet spot to keep accelerating and not nose over. If you can hang with a tesla hot out of the…

Patiently waiting for somebody to bring a full standalone Motec setup, or HPTuners to finally work around the stock ECU so these things can get a 427 like they should have from the get-go.

Yeah, I’ll be doing some facelift work on it, a little bit at a time.  I’ve got some M-parallels waiting to go on, though I’d have loved to get the M5 Style 65s in a squared wide setup but they’re a hiiigh price right now.

I’m going to be pulling from a few cars for inspiration, just wanting something I can go road…