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So I get a call from my cousin today. Who just happens to be an engineer in the auto industry, with a lot of contacts and friends also doing the same work. I had let him know a couple of months ago that I had ordered a camaro. Anyway he called me today to let me know about some transmission trouble on the M6/v8. So needless to say I was very interested to hear what he had to say.
So here goes. Please note I will not give any names and I am just here to share what I heard. I make no claims to how true or accurate any of it is.
So he asks if I had received my car yet, I let him know that it should be starting its way down the line next week and I would hopefully see it in month or so. He then said he just wanted to warn me if I already had my car to take it easy on the transmission because there was a problem . I said yeah I know the output shafts are having a problem. Right? He then told me its bigger than that. I did not want to hear that!
Anyway I'll sum things up the best I can. Torque management, suspension travel(wheel hop) and vibration. It sounded like under certain conditions undo stress is placed on the transmission. Pretty much when the back wheels break loose or hop torque management is trying to adjusting continually causing vibration in the rear end. That then is putting stress back on the output shaft, trans case, and joints on the transmission side of the axle. He mentioned something about cracked transmission cases and blown u-joints.
I didn't get any more than that from him other than it sounded like the programming on the system was being looked at heavily. But from the sounds of it all the involved components were being combed over by some very talented people.
Just thought I would share that with everyone. Again I make no claims with this information..........
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