So he was in a program where they send out all these engineers with recording devices that take snap shots and than they planned on meeting in two weeks to go over the data. I would suspect that with the new Global B platform that a lot of the things that they uncover will be part of the program of sending live updates to the vettes already produced. In the past they have made breakthroughs with the mag ride and offered software updates. One other thing he was focusing on was the brakes of the vehicle. I have not wanted to post about this issue that he was mainly focused on until I had done some more research on it and I have done so over the weekend. So without further adieu:
The brakes on the vette were a big area of concern and the reason why is nuts. The reason has to do with government regulations Vs Performance/ Corvette engineering. In the US California recently outlawed the use of copper in brakes. This was than adopted by a number of other states and it looks like we followed suit in Canada or they just put the same spec brake on for us. We have been using slotted vented brakes on Vettes and a lot of people were surprised to see a solid rotor on the new Vette. The reason why is because the new pads they have to use are way too vulnerable to slotted rotors. In testing the pads would be cooked in far too short of a time period. GM was pissed off with this because no brake manufacturer was willing to admit how much copper they were using in their proprietary formulas. It turned out after using a mass spectrometer that the OEM C7 brakes were 20% copper.....
So GM moved to a solid rotor to try and counter this aggressive brake wear that was occurring and can anyone guess what this has led too......
Squeaks galore in cold temps....
When I was on the test drive it squeaked a ton when we first started out and it was quite embarrassing. I hope that this is something that they work on and solve before we all get our new C8's as it is a big part of the experience in the vette. I feel that the cold temps were part of it and that maybe his C8 was acting worse than others as I have never heard any vette on any youtube video sound like this.
