fuel consumption + front plate removal

[wilyvet]

My Z06/Z07 M7 now has 2500 km. Fuel use, about 50/50 highway and city, has been 7.3 km per liter, a pleasant surprise for one who remembers the carbureted 427s of yore. The sound system is also surprisingly good, and music (no CD player, transferred 50 CDs to a memory card) is audible except above 100 kph on some types of highway pavement where the Michelin Sport Cup 2s become noisy.
This Z06 is therefore broken in for track use (Track Junkies) at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton July 31. As a follower of the 122-page(!) Z06 overheating thread on Corvette Forum USA, I expect that the oil and water will overheat if full rpm are used. Therefore I won't use full rpm.
Temperature is forecast to be around 20 deg C, or cooler than the 30-38 deg C Americans must deal with this time of year. Therefore I hope to get away with just the lowered rpm, change to 15/50 Mobil 1 and removing the front licence plate bracket. How does one remove the front licence plate bracket?

 

[81Wayne]

My Z06/Z07 M7 now has 2500 km. Fuel use, about 50/50 highway and city, has been 7.3 km per liter, a pleasant surprise for one who remembers the carbureted 427s of yore. The sound system is also surprisingly good, and music (no CD player, transferred 50 CDs to a memory card) is audible except above 100 kph on some types of highway pavement where the Michelin Sport Cup 2s become noisy.
This Z06 is therefore broken in for track use (Track Junkies) at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton July 31. As a follower of the 122-page(!) Z06 overheating thread on Corvette Forum USA, I expect that the oil and water will overheat if full rpm are used. Therefore I won't use full rpm.
Temperature is forecast to be around 20 deg C, or cooler than the 30-38 deg C Americans must deal with this time of year. Therefore I hope to get away with just the lowered rpm, change to 15/50 Mobil 1 and removing the front licence plate bracket. How does one remove the front licence plate bracket?

Removing the front bracket no that hard, remove the plate, then back out both large plastic screws. I took mine out completely. Now the tricky part I haven't figured out a short cut as I've only removed it once before is to pinch the back side where the large screws to release where it grabs the grill from in behind.

 

[Riley P]

How did the track session go?Looking forward to hearing your impressions of driving the Z!

 

[wilyvet]

How did the track session go?Looking forward to hearing your impressions of driving the Z!

Unfortunately I crashed my 1996 Lola Indy Car at Road America two and a half weeks ago, injuring left side ribs plus bruises and overall soreness. The Track Junkies session at Castrol Raceway in Edmonton came too soon to put my decrepit old body through the G-forces involved. Will try again in September. In the meantime I've driven this Z06 3,000 km ...with the AC on and a memory card playing the music CDs and vinyl records I loaded into it via Media Player. If I never take it on the track it will be my favourite GT car - reasonably comfortable and quietly capable of annihilating anything else on the road.
Fuel consumption for 50/50 highway/city remains 7.3 km per liter (17.2 miles per US gallon, 20.6 miles per imperial gallon).