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CORVETTE TODAY #167 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late June 2023
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May 8, 2025
CORVETTE TODAY #167 - Corvette News & Headlines, Late June 2023 Summer is officially here...so is car show season! There's lots going on, including lots of Corvette news! Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger makes his return appearance with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett, to keep you up-to-date on everything that's happening in the world of Corvette. Here are a few of the stories Steve and Keith will cover next week: 1. The C8 Corvette E-Ray will begin shipping in mid-October 2023 2. GM has a fix for two issues with the C8 Z06 LT6 engine 3. C8 ZR1 prototypes spotting in Colorado 4. Corvette Academy puts out a new E-Ray video about the performance app 5. Why is Speed Phenom selling his C8 Z06? 6. Want to buy Jon Bon Jovi's 1974 Corvette? It's for sale on Ebay... Sun tanners, turn over and enjoy next week's CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines show! Listen to the podcast, watch the YouTube video, join the Facebook group, sign up for email notifications and shop in the Merchandise Store at:
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happening with America's Sports Car Keith welcome back to the show it's the first full week of Summer it's hot and
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so is Corvette News man we got so much news to share I'm really looking forward to this podcast Steve this will be great
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buddy let's start out as we always do with a Corvette production update at the Bowling Green assembly plant absolutely
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so you know we've been cooking along these last few months it doesn't seem to be too many issues but we did have a
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Part Supply issue that affected production on Friday June 16th we were looking at the numbers that come out
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through Roger keel's spreadsheets and found that there were only 17 stingrays produced and 206 is made on that day wow
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and actually the shutdown sort of started the shift before so that Thursday night shift looks like there
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were zero cars and then that continued on Friday where they were able to put together just 19 cars total we heard
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that the cause may be chassis rails I don't know if that's confirmed or not but that it would be something obviously that would affect production of all car
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Z06 and stingrays the good news is the plant did seem to recover from that the following Monday and we've been watching
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the production total since and all been good so can't complain about that what we've got right now for the counts we're
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showing approximately 39 501 total Corvette Stingrays produced that's the
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total the combined number is 35 721 regular Stingrays and then
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3780 70th Anniversary stingrays huge number there we're getting ready to just cross over 40 000 stingrays probably by
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Monday or Tuesday this week was what will happen there Z06 production again just really moving along nicely 3 100
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regular z06s and another 615 70th Anniversary models I think we're looking
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at a total of around 3723 z06s they're seem to be moving that number up nicely you know we were
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wondering if they were even going to reach the 3000 total and now we're closing in on 4 000. so that's all good news our total count right now for 2023
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Corvette production stands at approximately 43 224 as of I think Thursday of last week
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so yeah we are continue to move forward we think that the team's trying to break at least 50 000. it would make it the
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third highest production model year ever in the 70 years of Corvette I don't know if we can get to the 53-8 which is the
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top spot held by the 79s but it's going to be interesting and we'll just have to see what happens there I'm looking forward to it this will be a photo
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finish buddy yes it will when we counting every single one absolutely and
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speaking of z06s I saw that last week we got Z06 allocation which is probably the
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last for the model year and orders will go in this week yeah this should be the final order cycle for the 2023 model
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year this one was mostly z06s which is the smattering of stingrays allocated to some of the dealers that we had talked
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to Chevy had been doing two order cycles per month you know usually they'll do a stingray in the earlier part of the
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month and then they followed up with a Z06 order cycle two weeks later well in June they skipped that early Stingray
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and we're told that oh no it's going to happen the week of June 22nd but instead of stingrays we got mostly z06s the good
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news though with the Z06 order is it appears that the z07 numbers have been boosted as well we're hearing
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constraints of the z06's carbon flash metallic Arrow but the required ground effects for the z07s are mostly visible
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carbon fibers what people want and that seems to be in good Supply right now and there are carbon flash metallic Arrow
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out there as well we're looking to see how this is all going to shake out how many more orders this will push into the system but I think this we are really
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the final order period for the cars we're thinking that with that z07 push
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currently that's right around 22 percent I believe of Z06 production one out of
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five or so or z07s we think that might actually get up to 25 to 30 percent by the time they're done that's the good
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news there we're really concerned about the z07's total numbers out there we may have some additional allocations after
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this order cycle there'll be onesies and Tuesdays as we like to call them but for the most part it looks like this is it
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for the 2023 model year including the 70th anniversaries looks like they've all been spoken for that's cool and also
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I was excited to see that they're targeting the e-ray to be shipping starting in mid-october this year yeah
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it seems like unlike the Z06 last year which kind of seemed to be getting pushed back and back and back we feel
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like the e-ray keeps getting moved up forward and forward more we talked about this with Chevy sent out an update on
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the Forza Motorsports game last time we talked about it there was the e-ray in the Cadillac lmdh racer we're going to
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be on the cover right so another update went out saying that the new game would be released on October 10th and in that
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release there was a quote from Corvette product marketing manager Harlan Charles who said the following he says we are
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excited to see the first customer impressions of Corvette e-ray both in real life and through Forza Motorsport
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being shared at the same time and it tells us that that on October 10th is when the game starts and there'll be
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some Corvette e-ray customers out there that'll have their cars in real life as well we know that 2024 Corvette ordering
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will begin July 27th and we still think we're going to see a staggered approach to that with Chevy doing maybe one week
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orders for the stingray maybe the second week they do a combined Z06 e-ray motorcycle we're just gonna have to
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watch that and see how production shakes out when it starts on September 5th but again good news that before they're
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pushing it towards the end of the year or maybe even you know the first customer orders would be delivered in
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2024 but yeah it looks like we're gonna get you know a full quarter of ownership in fourth quarter this year that's
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pretty darn exciting buddy something that was an exciting Keith I saw that a C8 owner was denied warranty because he
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had lowering collars but he was having problems with his front end lift and they denied that claim yeah you know we
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heard this about a year ago and we actually talked to Jeff strausser about it and his hands are really tied of course Jeff was the guy that was in
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charge of that kind of warranty stuff he's since retired these owners they use these after Market lowering callers to
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lower their Corvettes this is on the front wheels and apparently this owner started to get notifications the
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services front lift the owner says that the techs actually told him that the problem with the lowering collars is
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that they can cause these front lift actuators to leak hydraulic fluid and when they run dry that's when your
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damage occurs to these modules and you end up paying like two thousand dollars for the service work out of pocket
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because of having these lowering collars on his car so I mean not cheap and again it's always something to think about if
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you have front lift if you do have front lift this owner suggested that one alternative way to lower your car is to
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actually use lowering springs as opposed to these lowering collars that's just something to consider when you're
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modifying your Corvette that's a good idea that's for sure also GM has issued a TSB a couple of them as a matter of
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fact one for the Z06 engine that was kind of leaking oil out of the front of the engine and then they also had
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another TSB for the ticking noise didn't they yeah we've got a couple of them the good news is that it looks like both
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these issues are easily solvable so everybody can breathe a sigh of relief out there we're still kind of waiting
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for a final outcome from these people but so we'll start first with the leaking oil this was a member on the
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Corvette forum he detailed a service visit to his local Chevrolet dealer regarding oil leaking from the front of his engine a technical service bulletin
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issued back at the end of April seemed to cover what his problem was basically the TSB states that the condition may be
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caused by improper front cover bolt torque and inadequate sealer adhesion at
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one of the six t-joint locations to correct that they install a new front cover gaskets and then they follow the
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revised sealing procedure the C8 owner says that GM technicians actually came down to look at his car at the
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dealership wow and they were told that their place all the gaskets because at the assembly plant they did not have the
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proper silicone added to those gaskets which is what was causing the leaking of the corners because they've already
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identified the problem at the plant we're assuming that this is probably an issue that's been solved there and now
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they're finding these affected cars that might have had that issue of being inadequate ceiling at the plant it looks
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like a low count issue they can figure out the time period know what cars are involved in that and then get them fixed good it looks like just correct bolt
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torques and sealer adhesion we'll do the trick on that that's good and what about the ticking noise out of the lt6 so we
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talked about this issue with the ticking noise about a month ago where some Z06 owners had that ticking sound coming we
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actually played the sound from one of these guys Chevrolet issued a preliminary information bulletin for
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this condition they're looking for info one of the owners that had that ticking sound says that his car could be fixed
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without actually removing the engine from the car he says the fix involves new torque settings and possible replacement of these discs that sit on
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these valve retainers at the top of the engines again it doesn't sound like it's going to be you know you have to drop the engine and do this whole reworking
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of something it's just something that can be done on the top of the engine with the engine still in the car we're actually waiting to hear back if that
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work eliminated the ticking noise there's a lot of fingers crossed on that one Steve absolutely well buddy let's
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833-639-4231 I'm your host Steve Garrett with me is Keith Cornett from corvettebblogger.com every other week we
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keep you current and up to date on what's happening in the world of Corvette Keith in segment number two let's talk about Corvette racing at
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Watkins Glen yeah you know this is the first race in more than a month for the number three c8r which of course didn't
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go to Le Mans this year they were back in Action over the weekend for the Celine six hours of The Glen at Watkins
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Glen this actually starts a stretch of four races over seven weekends and it'll be these next four races that will most
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like determine the outcome of the GTD Pro class for the championship of course we're recording this prior to the race
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on Sunday so we'll have these results on the next podcast but one other big note from this weekend event at Watkins Glen
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is that we are expecting Chevrolet to announce more about the makeup of the teams that will be racing the new Zeo 6
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gt3rs beginning next January at the Rolex 24. we know that Chevy's confirmed four ZO6 gt3rs we'll be racing at the
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Rolex 24. there'll be two in the GTD Pro class and then two of the GT amateur class I think we're going to hear some
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team names and maybe some driver announcements coming up shortly so come back in two weeks and we'll have that for you that sounds good I'm excited
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about that in the rumors category Keith we saw the C8 ZR1 prototypes or at least
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we think those are what those are those that were spotted in Colorado yeah it's always fun to say we think they are
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because it could be more than something out there and that makes things a little bit more spicy in our opinion right right we had this other sighting of ZR1
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prototype testing in Colorado a guy captured three camouflage prototypes leaving a hotel parking lot with a rapid
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blue Corvette ZO6 which had the big Wing arrow on the car so we assume it's a zero seven this was actually the second
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sighting of the engineers in Colorado with these prototype c8s and there's been some speculation that first
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sighting the car that was with the prototypes looked to be an e-ray it had the wide body quarter-mounted exhaust
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and we wonder if they would be testing a Z06 export model against the ZR1 that didn't seem to make much sense to us
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we're thinking more that this could be Azora which is the twin turbo zero ones with the e-ray electric drivetrain at
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least we believe in that first sighting that was an e-ray there so it's pretty exciting to see these guys working out there again these groups are different
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than what we've seen in Detroit so there's multiple prototypes out there Roman and again that's a good thing and not to convolute it anymore we did see
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two C8 prototypes on a drive they were with three Silverado EVS that's kind of
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confusing what do you think that is exactly mind-blowing and back in Detroit you know our spy photographers captured
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these group of Chevy Engineers returning back from a drive on the public roads and yeah they had two c8s one was a
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camouflage Coupe and the large Arrow the other was a C8 convertible with the base Arrow it looked like and along with them
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were these three white Silverado EVS normally we see the Corvettes out on drives with cars like the Porsche GT2 RS
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which we saw that a month ago when they were developing the Z06 as you know we had the Ferrari 458 with them this
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answer could be as simple as these are just a group of Chevy Engineers who are cross-testing or reviewing upcoming
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Chevy vehicles maybe they were just getting lunch I mean that could be the simplest answer all it could be about
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batteries in the electric motor propulsion systems that are found in the Silverado rumored for the Zora and maybe
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they're looking at these systems by Engineers that specialize in the battery or EV Technologies it could be a whole
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number of things but I kind of like just let's get some lunch that's an option it's a good option
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let's get some lunch and blow some people's minds right exactly and get those spy people out there talking about rumors on the Corvette that's pretty
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funny this is a big rumor Keith and this is huge news we had some HP tuners that
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cracked the C8 ECM code and now they're offering tuning support for the C8 and
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the ECM yeah this is a story about four or five years in the making actually just a little history lesson here GM
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uses what they call the global b electrical architecture on the Mid Engine Corvette and it's designed to
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move massive amounts of data from like the various sensors and the control modules throughout the car and it also
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allows for those over-the-air software updates that we get so we don't have to take the cars to the dealership one of
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the main strengths of the global B is that these engine control modules were encrypted to protect the car from
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hackers and authorize updates and of course we know what Global B cyber security also did was lock out the
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aftermarket and all these performance shops that would be able to tune a Corvette that's all gone Builders were
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able to do some limited work around so it's all that like on the fuel tank set cars and on Amelia's cars where they added secondary ecms and Fuel Delivery
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Systems for tricking the sensors and not throwing engine lights and stuff like that but that's not the same as updating
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your primary ECM what HP tuners did was they found a way to get support for that
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it basically is unlocking your ECM and what you do is you take yours out of
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your car you send it to them they do their magic on it they send it back to you and now you can use their software
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to do a bunch of stuff I mean you can look at Boost and camshaft times and air fuel ratios and ignition timing torque
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management all kinds of stuff I like the story we did in segment one about your lowering collars there could be some pushback or GM should anything go wrong
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and you need that warranty work so you might want to keep that in mind before you send your ECM off to be modified but for the people that don't care and are
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building their cars out this is really good news absolutely right and then nobody get upset here Japan is getting
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two special edition C8 Corvettes yeah you know our last news and headlines podcast we talked about the new Z06 is
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being sold in Japan and that you could have any color you wanted as long as it was black now we've got word that there's now two new Stingray special
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editions coming to Japan as well and they're going to be building 35 of each of them so very limited one of them's
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called The Limited racing style Edition it comes in Hypersonic gray or Arctic White and you get a combination of a
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accelerate yellow or you can get that one in black as well like you said there's 70 of these they're going to be
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made and if you put that in context of production that would take approximately one shift to build at Bowling Green so
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we're not losing a bunch of production time for these exports to be made right nobody get excited it's all good we
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still are going to get our Corvettes and hopefully we'll hit that 52 800 number that'd be great and again it's all part
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of that world domination tour for the C8 Corvette you're getting a smattering these cars in different markets you get
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a little bit each year and pretty soon you get a nice healthy population C8 Corvettes out there Japan is a sort of a
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new market for us because this is the first and the Corvette has ever been offered from the factory and right hand
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drive that's a big deal for those markets that drive on the right hand side of the road it's pretty exciting stuff buddy let's take our final break
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glad to see Corvette Academy had another e-ray video about the performance app yeah again anytime we get official
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videos or teasers from Chevy you know we sit up and take notice this is part of Chevy's Corvette Academy Series this is
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a video series that runs on YouTube this one being about the e-ray this title was called technology on display and the
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primary speaker of the video was a lady named Carolyn Sweeney her title is Corvette calibration engineer Battery
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Systems she talks about there's three primary display layouts for the e-ray app you know we've shared these before
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we saw them at the bash with tags taking us through at the team seminar there you have the gauges screen which is now kind
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of the one that we've always seen you know it's got the two circles on each side it shows like the dynamic power output for both the front mounted
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electric motor and then the rear lt2 V8 we also have a Dyno screen which shares graphs and other info related to power
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and torque and then there's a data screen that shows like electrical system performance and overall efficiencies as
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you get used to driving these I don't know how much you'll use some of those screens I think that first one is probably the most interesting the
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dynamic power output the e-ray is new technology for the Corvette and this app does look like a great visual reference
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for all that new data data points that are coming at the driver now they seem to have developed a way that makes it
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easily readable but yet still geek out and get in there and do some fun stuff with it cool stuff from the e-ray coming
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and can't wait to learn more I can't wait either I'm a tech geek and I love all this stuff Keith we had three
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celebrities selling their Corvettes let's start number one Mario Andretti has a C5 Z06 and he sold that on
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bringing a trailer this wasn't Mario selling his car this was a car that he purchased new back in 2001. you know you
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get that paperwork and you follow that paper trail and it was the owner history shows that the original owner was Mario
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Andretti that's kind of a big deal yeah this car was sold on bring a trailer for 33 000 a strong price for a 2001 Z06 the
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very first year for that model strong price for Mario Andretti c506 that's cool and also me being a classic rock
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disc jockey for 46 plus years on the radio John Bon Jovi sold his 74 Corvette
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and that was done on eBay yeah and unlike Mario Andretti car this 74 was actually owned by Jon Bon Jovi at the
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time of the sale it was a red Coop with white interior and I mean it was really excellent condition inside and out the
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coolest part of the car though is that there was an odometer mileage statement with his signature on there and of
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course it's not John Bon Jovi the three words as we know John B and j-o-n it's John J o h n Bon Jovi his real name so
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pretty interesting to see that both printed and signed on the odometer mileage statement this car was on eBay
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and it sold for forty thousand one hundred dollars again very strong price for a 1974 Corvette it shows you that
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celebrity does come with an increase in value for the right celebrity I don't know about this next car we're going to
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talk about well speed Phenom is a celebrity in his own right in the world of Corvette and his Z06 is selling right
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now yeah so after eight months of ownership he basically says he's done everything he's wanted to do with the
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Z06 and with all the talk of the ZR1 coming out now he sold his car he's gonna wait for that kind of seemed
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short-sighted in our opinion especially when a lot of his videos were just him out at the track I mean you could do that all the way up to when the ZR1
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comes but he does explain in his videos that he is also buying a McLaren 750s that's probably the real reason why he's
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selling the Z06 in the end these influencers are just about racking up eyeballs to their videos they think they
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always need the latest and greatest to do that but saying you're getting a ZR1 while you're selling your Z06 for 40 000
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over MSRP it's kind of a slap in the face of the people that really enjoyed your contributions I think so I wasn't
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really enthused to see this again I just want to roll my eyes these guys get these early cars his car was I think 27
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28 maybe 37 or 38 somewhere in there a real low car he only had it eight months he's not even gonna be able to enjoy
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those 500 000 of my Chevy rewards points which he fought for so hard right he sells cards on AutoTrader for 224 995
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dollars interesting if you're interested there it is yep there it is and he had the first Museum delivery of the C8 Z06
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so you know that car's got some history to it if you're looking for a Z06 and a little bit of celebrity that goes along
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with it that might be your car well the good news is we know that he has new carbon fiber Wheels that's true he did
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put about 6 000 miles on his car in his ownership times yeah it's been raised it's been out there he's had three sets
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of wheels on it I believe it's a car that's been driven that's for sure and here's our feel-good story of the week
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and this is near and dear to Keith's heart the National Corvette Museum has been teasing their upcoming exhibit
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called an American love affair seven years a Corvette they put out a teaser video and Keith has some special meaning
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for this video yeah so it's just a 15 second video and normally I would just gloss over it but I hit play on it and
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the very first image they used is of my father with his new 1966 Stingray it's a vintage photo that I had actually
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provided them last year for an article which appeared in their American Sports Car magazine it was unexpected I was
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shocked to see it I actually sent it to my sister she got all emotional if you know my story my dad bought the car in
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66 I came along in 68. he passed away in early 1982 so I took over the car in 93
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and even though I've now owned it for 30 years it's always my dad's car you know and I've owned it twice as long as he
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did but again it's just always my dad's car he actually picked up his car on June 29th he most likely drove his
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Corvette to work on June 30th which would have been the Corvette's 14th birthday so very interesting there and
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speaking of that Steve this Friday is drive your Corvette to work day it's going to be June 30th so if you want to
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see those cars out on the road absolutely well Keith congratulations that's such a cool deal having your dad
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at the beginning of that teaser video and everybody on Friday drive your Corvette to work absolutely we got to
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get as many cars as he's out there now UCA guys I know that's real easy for you I work at home so what do I do I back
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out the car and put it back in the garage or do something like that I used to go down to my data center which is in
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downtown Tampa and change out my back out tapes and stuff like that but these days I'd rather just maybe cruise around the block and feel that sunshine on my
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face there you go well the world headquarters for Corvette today is also at my house on Friday I'll pull my C8
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70th Anniversary Coupe out in the driveway and I'll leave it sitting out there all day long how's that sound that
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sounds great yeah then I'll put the Corvette flag up on the side of the house we'll just be rooting for for all things red white blue and hot dogs and
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apple pie too and Corvette that's right well buddy thanks for being back on Corvette today we'll see you in two
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