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Originally Posted by LOWDOWN
When you "compress" anything...air, for instance...you also HEAT it. To dissipate the heat, you need increased/enhanced cooling, be it air-to-air, air-to-water, water-to-air etc. To increase cooling capacity, you need bigger/heavier/co$tlier cooling components...which add weight, and complexity, and expen$e.
There was a significant number of "Hoorays!!" when the ZL1 name was adopted, and the Z28 name was NOT. And (witness the Z28 Section's sustained postings) there was/is a sustained desire, unrequited, for a "true" _ / _ _ Something with a touch more "hot sauce" underhood than the SS/1LE...just like the Gen-1 _ / _ _ offered more than the "regular" SS.
"Light-as-likely", fully able to carve canyons with the very best 4-seaters out there...
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I was one of the original horrayers on the name change. The Z28 name would have been like a basketball. GM listened to us. So now they are saving the name for something good. It might be while before we see it.
Heat exchange does add weight, it is not of the boat anchor category. Smaller lighter engines with FI can do the job on the big end. And this arrangement is less taxing on the drive train with less torque so a huge beefing up is not needed. So exemplary corner carving is quite possible.
While HP Camaros will be headed in this direction sooner or later, I know it will not be tomorrow. I do think this future vision can produce a car very true to the name.
And I agree with the desire for simplicity. But it is way too late for that. Even without FI Camaros are fairly complex. And the other thing that has happened is that manufacturers like GM have to be able to build reliable FI cars to be able to stay in business. And they can.
But say they do build one version or the other. How many owners will ever drive their car to its full potential or even be capable of that? That has me thinking.