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CORVETTE TODAY #99 - Corvette News & Headlines, Early March 2022
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May 8, 2025
Well, Spring is finally here and as we get closer and closer to the release of the 2023 C8 Corvette and the Z06, your CORVETTE TODAY News & Headlines podcast and YouTube video are packed with information about the upcoming releases of this 70th anniversary set of cars! Join your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett and Keith Cornett from CorvetteBlogger.com for this week's show! Here are a few of the headlines covered in this episode: 1. GM confirms early April for purchasing C8 Z06 2. Z06 information leaks from the Workbench Order System 3. C8 Z06 will have a temporary 6500 RPM during 500 mile break-in period 4. Corvette wins Kelly Blue Book’s “Best Resale Value” award. 5. Callaway and Chevy announce a 35th Anniversary B2K C8 Corvette 6. Corvette Racing car #64 goes back to its original yellow/black livery for WEC 7. Chevy engineers spent $25,000 on a Ferrari 458 engine in Poland for R&D 8. There are 54 easter eggs on LT6 engine for the C8 Z06 9. GM to increase revenue via the launch of 50 new digital features by 2026 As we get to the launch of the 2023 Corvette, the CORVETTE TODAY podcast and YouTube video channel is where to get the most current and up-to-date information! LISTEN TO THE PODCAST, WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO, SIGN UP FOR EMAILS, JOIN THE FACEBOOK GROUP HERE:
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welcome back to corvette today it's officially springtime car show season is here it doesn't necessarily feel like
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spring all the time but i'm glad it's here oh boy i couldn't be more happier you know it's march and you know it just
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seems like everything's going on in march we got amelia island we've got racing at sebring we've got car shows
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we've got the ncm bash coming up next month we've got all kinds of z06 news it's a fun time right now but our
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weather down here at 71 it was 80 yesterday just fantastic cruising weather to get out and see stuff
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hopefully everybody's out for those that are still in the winter states your time will be there soon absolutely well buddy
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let's start as we always do with corvette news and get an update on production at the bowling green assembly plant sure well the production's just
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been moving right along we've had no interruptions in production over the last few weeks we're going to cross over
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18 000 in the vin count this week it just looks steady sailing we're not doing any really spectacular days in
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terms of production you know anything like over 190 or so we just seem to be liking that 160 to 180 time frame with
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production each day on these cars but we are getting into some interesting time periods we've got nine weeks remaining
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in 2022 production in fact thursday is the very last order cycle for the 2022
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so dealers will get their final allocations for that model year and that pretty much closes the order books on
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the 2022s well and i know the gm confirmed in early april is when we can start purchasing z06s right well they
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did but they didn't and we've seen this time and again with general motors and especially the chevrolet team it's like
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one hand is not talking to the other so obviously there's the gm the corvette pr team and then there's the team that puts
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out the newsletters and they are not the same the first newsletter went out that said the all-new 2023 corvette z06
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anniversary z06 coupe will be available for purchase in early april and in fact they revised that they sent out another
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email to owners this only went out to corvette owners by the way not to people that are prospective on the list but to
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people that have recently purchased so the new email then said the 70th anniversary all new 2023 corvette z06
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and stingray models will be available to order this spring so they change it from available to purchase in april to
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available to order this spring and of course spring starts on is it the 20th the 21st in a couple weeks anyway so
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we're in the time frame the first order cycle for the 2023s is march 31st it
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closes on april 4th or 5th so yeah it is the first week of april but it looks like that time frame that we've been
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talking about the last few months is still holding strong we are looking at the first allocation cycle to come on
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march 31st can't wait for it buddy i'm so excited also we had some z06 information leaked on the workbench
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order system didn't we yeah this is always good stuff what we see is generally in advance of the ordering starting gm goes in there and loads up
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all the ordering information for the different models and there's some cleanup that needs to be done you know i saw some of the youtubers saying you can
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order now and that's not the case at all they got the workbench system up there it was only up for a few hours and then
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they took it down later that day once the word got out that we were all looking at it our friends over the corvette action center did manage to
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grab screenshots of the z06 3lz and a stingray three lt orders and then you
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can see like the different options and they're still cleaning up stuff you know under the z06 information it had a c8r
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edition that comes with the 2022s that's not even going to be part of that so there's some stuff that's coming off and
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they're probably still putting some stuff on there we had some really interesting things for example there was an engine accessory cover listed as an
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alternate finish four we don't know what these are there's a couple different things like that with graphics you know
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design number nine another interesting thing accessory engine coil cover don't know what that is and then there's
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actually a headlamps leveling system automatic we don't know what that is either but that's also on the stingray
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as well good stuff coming out what we're gonna see steve is we'll have the order guide come out on march 21st and then
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that'll really solidify you know all the different options available for corvette buyers and then of course the pre-orders
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this is when dealers can actually start adding orders to the workbench system is march 24th and then of course as we said
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the first allocations come on march 31st looks like all good stuff real quick on the stingray we haven't seen too many
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changes over the last couple years but we are getting new wheel options and it looks like we're getting three new
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wheels for the stingray one of those wheels is going to be the red line and probably black with the red line for the
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70th anniversary edition so we're assuming that the other two wheels will just be a plain black and then probably
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a polished silver of the same design so we haven't seen the design yet hopefully we'll see that soon if not probably the
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order guide and we'll see it then we're just weeks away from ordering on the 2023 models buckle in and sit down
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because here we go right yeah i mean it's two three weeks away we're gonna be able to start ordering cars and finding out prices this will be great yeah
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pretty crazy also we had some information about the z06 the temporary break-in is going to be at 6 500 rpm
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during the 500-mile break-in period not the 8600 yeah correct it opens up you
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got the full 8600 rpm after the 500 miles but like the lt2 they are recommending a 500 mile breaking
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procedure generally when that happens what they do is you'll see the different yellow line and redline on the
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tachometer and then also they do limit torque in years one and two what we'll see then is if you go that 500 miles
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we'll see the tachometer magically change over you get the full power at 8600. it was really amazing is that lt2
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you're only at 4500 during the break-in period and then it goes to 6 500 so full power well we're at 6 500 for the z06
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during the breaking period and it goes to the 8600 afterwards chevy is also still recommending 1500 miles on the
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odometer before you take it to the track or do any racing we're getting all these little details you'll see all the videos
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of people with z06s crossing over that magical 500 mark and seeing the technometer change over and then they
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get a hammer their car for the first time so that's gonna be a lot of fun to see and looking forward to that it will be a lot of fun i don't want to see you
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jabroni's taking that car out of the dealership and doing burnouts right away on it either burnouts or take it
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straight to the dyno you're doing some crazy stuff like that no you want to break in these engines correctly there
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is definitely a breaking procedure we think of just not the engine there's a transmission and there's other components that also need to be broken
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in as well so take it easy on that 500 break-in period follow the instructions and the owner's guide it's going to be
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good time you want to do it right so you can have fun down the road definitely also corvette won kelly blue book's best
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resale value award which is really good to see yeah obviously we've seen strong pricing out of corvettes here they won
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actually the best resale value award in the sports car category they were one of the top 10 overall and the only other
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general motors product i think that was top 10 overall was a gmc sierra pickup pickups have always been a bestseller
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for general motors and then all of a sudden you've got a corvette up there that's just something like hotcakes it's nice to see that kelly blue book is
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given the corvette to deal with these things definitely also this is kind of random keith gm recalled 22 c8 corvettes
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just 22 because they were missing ball bearings yeah so a guy was driving this car all of a sudden he loses propulsion
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is what he says the engine was running but he couldn't go took the car into the dealership they found during the inspection that it was missing some ball
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bearings actually a gm engineer submitted a report to like a speak up
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for safety hotline the supplier went back and they identified initially 19 vins that were missing uh ball bearings
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and then the ball bearings and the half shaft assemblies and then they found another couple others that were so they have 22 total you know this is probably
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a supplier issue it's probably a personnel change or something happened where somebody wasn't doing the right installation there at the supplier they
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were able to obviously neck down and figure out which of the half shaft assemblies were impacted by that that's
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why we get the random number of 22. okay that was really weird 22 cars that was it owners will be notified of the recall
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beginning april 4th however if you go on to your gm warranty there's a warranty
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link there and you pop in your vin it'll tell you if you're one of the 22 cars or not most likely you're not but if you
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really want to know you can actually go to mygm.com forward slash recalls and enter your vin to find out for me keith
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if i had a c8 it would be murphy's law what could happen will happen i know some people the second they hear about
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things they just think gloom and doom and it's happening to them and for the most part we're in year three right now things are really stabilized on the
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stingray you know we saw some initial things in year one but for the most part all that stuff's been changed and fixed
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out and moved on yeah things are pretty good right now for the stingray that's good also our friends at callaway
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announced that they're teaming up with chevrolet again for a 35th anniversary b2k c8 corvette give us the back story
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on that as you know callaway 35 years ago introduced the b2k rpo for corvette
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it was the first time that a non-gm entity had been assigned a regular
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production option corvette owners would go to their dealership they'd buy a corvette it'd be shipped up to callaway
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in connecticut or in california it would have the twin turbo systems added and then sit back to the dealer for delivery
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that's how you get this non-gm entity doing work on these new cars we're going to see callaway celebrate their 35th
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anniversary again general motors is going to have the rcy rpo code and that'll trigger the 35th anniversary the
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cars are going to be completed in bowling green then shipped up to connecticut or california again where
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they will include callaway carbon fiber arrow you get a double d exhaust system which actually shaves like nearly half
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the weight off the regular system right you get interior upgrades you get interior badging a sequence number your
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callaway warranty covers three years or 36 thousand miles that's a supplement to the regular gm warranty the one thing
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that people are seeing on this is the cost is 34.9 plus your c8 z51 obviously
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there's a cost there but if you look at callaways in the past with a supercharger they were selling for about
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fifty thousand dollars so minus the supercharger we are seeing pretty much the same kind of pricing strategy it
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looks like there have been some rumors that callaway will be getting back into the engine modification business
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starting with z06 we heard that from reeves calloway kind of a stay tuned we're excited and hopefully that'll
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happen once the z06s are out there we'll see what they're able to do with it glad to see them back glad to see them back on the order guide and looking forward
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to seeing these cars and you know all the different shows and such good stuff from callaway and corvette yeah absolutely great people over there at
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callaway and great mods and updates for all corvettes well keith let's take our first break when we come back we'll talk
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the world of corvette in this section we're going to talk about corvette racing and corvette rumors in the racing
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section keith jordan taylor gave us an update on the c8r at sebring yeah we actually talked about this i think on
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our last get-together we knew that they were out there there had been some pictures posted to social media but jordan's got his own youtube channel
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where he is doing some behind the scenes stuff for corvette racing and showing what's going on he actually did a video
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from this test session for the most part they said they were really focusing on these new gtd spec michelin tires which
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again we've talked about you know they're all using the same tires right now in gtd pro the very same tire not
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different michelins for different cars right and previously our mission lens were custom made for the c8rs and now
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we're just using customer tires it's one of the major changes that the team has seen so this sebring test they really
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spent some time going through some different scenarios seeing when tire temps drop off when performance drops
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off at different stages of the day obviously with sebring you start earlier temps are cooler it heats up during the
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day and then at night time it gets cooler again and those are major differences in track performance retires they're really working hard trying to
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figure that out again it's really just a fun opportunity to watch jordan behind the scenes there's a bunch of stuff
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obviously they couldn't show us he kind of made jokes about damper change again which i can't show you and he did that like four or five times in the video so
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good stuff there glad to see these kinds of videos it just offers up a better understanding of what the team's going
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through and where we are they know sebring really well probably is one of their best known tracks where they've
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continually tested and have worked hard at hopefully that'll give them a little bit of advantage that also flows into
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the wec race so saturday is the regular sebring race for emsa but friday is the 1000 miles of sebring for the world
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endurance championships we've got the number 64 corvette running there sebring two weeks away and i'm actually planning
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on being down there for that race so i'm looking forward to that as well that'll be fantastic and speaking of the number 64 car it's going back to its original
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livery which is the yellow and black isn't it yeah you know we've only seen it in the silver since it's released so
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yeah so it's going yellow and black it's a single car entry in the world endurance championships why not showcase
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your trademark color of yellow and black you know who's really excited about it's nick tandy who says finally i get a race
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at yellow corvette he's been two years in the silver car pretty exciting stuff so yeah their first race for the season
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is march 18th the other thing too is they're running a thousand miles with just two drivers tommy milner and nick
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tandy are taking on that challenge together it should be a really competitive race our cars in the wc
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we've raced here and there this is the first time we've ever done a full-time entry so hopefully we can close the gap on some of the performance with the
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other cars in the class it'd be really fun to get a win that's for sure that's for sure also in the rumor section we
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saw a z06 caravan spotted in southern california what was going on with that yeah it looks like they're doing some
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testing this was last week a guy was driving down highway 101 in the san fernando valley and all of a sudden here
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come four corvette z06 is passing by they all had the high wing except for one was no wing it was a camouflage car
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that had no wing and then the other thing too is we've seen some mixed cars especially some of these old camo cars
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that have had that corner mounted exhaust not the newer center mount exhaust and all four of these cars did
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have the center mount exhaust so they're out there testing you got nine or ten weeks before production starts for the
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2023's on may 9th again there's still some questions on whether the z06 will be included on that first day we think
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it is so some people are saying no that's going to wait but again we're just guessing right now it's really just a guess they're out there testing and
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it's all good also in the rumors section we heard that chevy engineers bought a ferrari engine a 458 italia and bought
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the engine for 25 000 in poland for research and development boy that sounds interesting yeah this is
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one of these fun stories that came out of that lt6 deep dive a few weeks back early on in the production they didn't
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have the money to buy a full 458 and then take the engine out and take it apart all then so they went looking for
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a motor and they found a wrecked ferrari in poland jordan lee says yeah we sent him a check for something like 25 000
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and we were all pleased and thrilled when it actually showed up that's kind of the joke i think is you know if you ever buy anything questionable on ebay
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or online you think man i hope i'm not just throwing my money away right but they said that the engine showed up on a
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pallet and it was shipped directly to the gm engineering center in pontiac michigan so you have to wonder if the
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guy is filling out the address on this and pulling what's he thinking about why does gm want a ferrari engine you know
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that's funny funny stories like that and then so they got the engine they tore it down tadz talked about a little surprise
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about some of the bearings in the engine a little bit smaller than expected it kind of really opened their eyes to see
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some of the things that they were doing and then they really went to work and said how can we make this better what can we do to make it bigger better
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stronger obviously they think they've done that so they're really excited about this new engine i think most of us
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now are yeah absolutely right also and we talked about this on our last news and headlines podcast the lt6 engine is
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going to have 54 easter eggs on it and a lot of those are the little rocket ships which is the gemini project yeah so
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that's what they called this motor the engine and then some of the development they call it the project gemini again
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it's a moonshot like gemini rockets from our 70s and the 60s but it also refers
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to geminis or twins the lt6 does have that dual intake manifold so there's a little bit more to this whole gemini
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thing but yeah they've got all these rockets on the engine there's 54 of them you won't find all of them and in fact a
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lot of these are not just there for bragging purposes say oh yeah we put 54 easter eggs on this engine the engine
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builders are installing this they might see a connecting rod or something that has a engine on it and they know it goes
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in facing them versus it goes and facing away so some of it is also for installation and putting these motors
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together just as a sort of a guide as well as being cool just fun stuff coming out of this lt60 dive there's more
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coming out i know we're going to talk about the torque curve next so i'll just go right into that sounds good they released it's the first time we saw it
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and they call it a torque curve would be i don't know it's more of a torque shelf or a torque straight as my friend john
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was calling it over at the ninja corvette forum jordan lee small block chief engineer he calls it very broad
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flat torque curve that expands to 8 600 rpm it is you see a bump it starts at
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3000 you see a little bump at 3 500 and then it's relatively flat all the way through there to 8600 but what you also
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see then is that power curve just keeps going up it just keeps climbing you're making your power on the ability to
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scale on that higher rpm than the torque the torque being is relatively the same but you're getting more power out of it
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so that's how the lt6 is making its power there pretty exciting to see some of these technical details come out and there's going to be more to drop
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absolutely right well buddy let's take our final break and in the third segment we'll talk about the lighter side of corvette here on corvette today american
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yeah they had like 30 cars they were giving away last week on the price is right one of them was a red mist
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corvette convertible beautiful car i mean it was well optioned i think it was optioned at over 90 000 is what drew
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carey said the host on the show we actually saw the car show up on the wednesday episode the game to win the
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car was a hole in one or two it was a golf putting game and a woman had two shots at winning it but she missed both
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shots so unfortunately the stingray did not go home with her which is a shame that would have been fun to see yeah
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that would have been really cool especially if a woman shot it and you know isn't really a golfer that would have been such a cool prize well that's
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always the fun thing of price is right right just the different stupid games that people play and how excited they are and they're always looking for the
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audience for help it's a fun show good to see the corvette on there absolutely also this is interesting because living
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in the kansas city area in the metro kansas city is divided right down the middle between missouri and kansas i
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live on the kansas side of the metro and we talked about this also in a previous podcast there was a seizure of a 1959 c1
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corvette that prompted kansas lawmakers to review the vin mandate for antique vehicles what's the back story and the
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update on that one so we talked about this story last year about the owner named richard martinez who bought a
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restored 1959 corvette for fifty thousand dollars from an indiana dealer when you buy a car you had to go get it
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inspected by the kansas state highway patrol and it was during that inspection
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that the state trooper discovered a problem with a vin plate on the car the problem is that the current law says
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that a vehicle or trailer with a destroyed removed altered or defaced vin
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will be seized and destroyed sometimes you might have a restoration that takes a vin tag off and then reapplies it
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sometimes it might be just missing a vin tag in one certain area like along the frame right but the other vin tags are
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available you know a lot of things go on during a restoration that you obviously don't think about although obviously protecting the vin documentation on the
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car should be paramount in any restoration when this news blew up and people were hearing about okay here's an
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innocent owner had nothing to do with this buys the car for fifty thousand dollars he gets seized that's being
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threatened to destroy he's got to go to court so luckily this news blew up last year and now lawmakers are looking at
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being able to update it so that it does protect innocent owners like richard martinez as well as foregoing the
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destruction of a car vehicle just because something like uh innocent accident happened they're not saying
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that the dealer tried to defraud they're not trying to say richard martinez tried to defraud it was just one of these things that happened and now they're
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trying to protect any kind of future cases that's a good thing also this is really cool too keith gm is increasing
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revenue with the launch of 50 new digital features for 2026. what are some of those digital features well that's
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the question you know and my readers didn't really think that this is all that cool they were talking about what kind of
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things are you to get so general motors talks about onstar you know from onstar they make about 32
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per vehicle with their onstar subscription you're going to see some additional subscriptions coming something with the enhanced supercruise
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possibly with all the electrification coming to general motors and cars you might see additional apps for charging
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locations or for vehicle performance it wouldn't surprise me and again i'm just
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throwing stuff out here we've got some really fun toys on the corvette we've got like the 0 to 60 meter which records
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your launches and some other things like that the performance meters on there general motors could actually make those
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optional and subscription based people might not like that those are some of the things that they're talking about you might also get some diagnostic
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services that do more enhanced diagnostics on your car for a subscription they call these digital products steve carlisle from general
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motors said they're looking at some 50 of these coming out between the next 36 and 48 months i think some of them are
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going to be cool i think some of them are gonna be disappointing and obviously you're trying to hit corvette owners in the pocketbook for a little bit more so
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hopefully we won't see too much of that from the any existing fun stuff that we already have on our car they're talking
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about it so just keep an eye on out for it well being the tech geek that i am i'm interested to see if there's 50 new
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ones coming out i'll be interested to see which ones are really cool and legit and which are not necessarily as good
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also our final story keith if you have a c8 z51 and you have some problems with
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brake pulsations or some grinding noise we have a fix for that don't we yeah gm techlink put out an article for dealers
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dealer services people to look at what this actually is for the c8 they've had to make some changes to the brakes the
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rotors are different the brake pad composition's different so we have been seeing some different technical issues
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arising from that one of these is if a car sits for a while you could actually have brake pads spotting where it was
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hitting the rotor huh or the brake rotors also get like surface grooving or pitting because of the brake pads so if
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you're feeling brake pulsations if the brake pedal is kicking back at you a little bit if you're hearing grinding
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noises you can do a visual inspection on the website on the corvette blogger we do have photos of these rotors that show
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like that that brake pad spotting they want you to do a brake furnishing procedure or brake bedding procedure
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they talk about the owner's manual you go out there and you get up to about 60 miles an hour and then you moderately
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apply your brakes down to 30 and you do that like 10 times that is supposedly we'll get them nice and hot remove any
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of that spotting and get you on your way then hopefully that will work for you again just one of these issues we've
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seen with the new composition of brakes and brake pad material i think is impacting corvette owners that way yeah
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embedding your brakes is really important i know on my c7 i got some of the low dust brake pads and we had to go
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through that embedding procedure where you get up to 60 and come down moderately about 10 times down to 30 and
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then sometimes you go back up to 60 or 65 and break really hard just to get those brake pads embedded and situated
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so it's understandable yeah you got to get out there and find a road to where you can do that safely and then the
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other thing too is the owner's manual when they talk about the brake burnishing process they talk about doing it like 25 times and that i think is way
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more than called for the geotech link here article just says 10 times if you do it 10 times in your hearing and
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feeling results that you're probably pretty good after that right i think if you do it 10 times you're more than
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embedded and you're ready to go that's for sure yeah well keith thanks for being back on corvette today we'll see
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you in two weeks and that will be episode number 101 i'm so excited 100.
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do you have a guest lined up for your 100th episode a very special guest coming up for episode number 100. all
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right well we'll stand and be excited for that congratulations again steve thanks for having us on all of our
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