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Originally Posted by camaro1
gm better get this all straight before the magazines and press get involved
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I can't see that happening.
1. Because I don't believe enough people are saying anything to anyone about it.
2. Because very few people are even testing their cars. It's a really strong engine. Strong enough that 99% of L99 owners will be happy with the 'feeling' of power. Most racing enthusiasts will buy the Standard, and the rest will mod anyway. There are VERY few L99s that will be tested and dynoed and even fewer who will have a problem and even FEWER who will bring it to light.
If you sell 20,000 Camaros and let's say only 8000 of them are Autos and you concentrate only on the Autos, then you've allready gotten rid of the big majority of 'racing' guys. Now you take what you have left (8000) and let's just say 2000 of those guys are racing guy who would even notice a problem. Now let's say half of those guys will mod the car anyway. (or just tune it.) Now you have 1000 cars. Now lets say only 50 of those cars have a problem at all. (I suspect it would be more than 5% but this is just an example) So now out of the 50 cars, how many will notice a problem? Let's just say 5 out of 50. So now you have 5 people out of 20,000 with Camaros who have the same problem and are pissed. Of those 5 maybe one or two just say to hell with it and deal with it, or get a tune or persue other means of dealing with it. And now you're down to 3. Well? NO STORY HERE. 3 out of 20,000 is not something GM worries about, nor do the magazines and other publications. The key here is most guys who will EVER even notice a problem will be moding anyway. The rest won't even notice. And BTW, at least we've got people noticing and testing.
Obviously my numbers will be way off. But that's the type of tricle down that happens and why IMO, this is a non-story, and will go unreported. Also it's why someone has to say something, somewhere. I don't want it reported in a magazine anyway.
Now I've spoken at length to some of our members and mods. Namely Junkie and Spike. They are of the impression that my car will 'Wake Up' the more I pound on it. I'm still persuing the TAC avenue through my dealer. But in the meantime I'll be keeping a close eye on my car. Mine is faster than Scotts. If they don't do anything for him then I don't have a snoballs chance in hell with them. It would be a principle case at that point. IF my car doesn't improve.
No, a stopwatch, iPhone, G-Tech etc. are not official data and can be way off. But you can't tell me I can't get at least within .3 of a second by video recording the run and putting a stopwatch to it 20 times and come up with an average. It WILL be within .3 second. That's a pretty big time differential. Considering I have done times like this in the 7 second range, It's good enough.