Z06 overheating

>>13969139
How is it that a company can put millions into designing a car and still fuck it up?

>>13969152
>American

>>13969159
Americans invented the automobile, idiot

>>13969139
Alphonse pls

>>13969139
Look at the coffee can on that fucker. How the hell does that not make it sound like a honda

>>13969165
Nice bait.

>>13969165
Or.... Germans

>>13969177
Pretty sure it was an Englishman. Just saying.

>>13969139
>So this is why the C7Zs are overheating.
They're not.

There's not even an oil cooler in the picture.

>>13969170
cuz it's not a muffler
that's a very hot Cat next to the oil cooler.

>>13969152 boomers don't track the car much so it works fine for the old people.

>>13969185
Henry Ford was English?

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>>13969188
that's the factory oil cooler.
it routs engine coolant through a heat exchanger that heats up the oil when cold but keeps it below 2220F when driven on the street.

>>13969200
Are you even trying?

>>13969205
220F*

>>13969208
No. But I did think Benz was credited with the first real interpretation of the modern car. I'm sure other people strapped an engine on wheels before that tho.

>>13969205
I've seen some stupid shit in my day. But this takes the cake.

>>13969213
You had it right at 2200ºF

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>>13969222
the cadillac and Camaro teams figured it out.
yet the vette team did not.
I don't get how they spent 6 months running laps at the Nurburgring and did not change it.

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>>13969219
Benz invented an engine on wheels. Pic related; not a car. Further investigation suggests that the first car was made by an American, but the first production car was manufactured by Daimler Company under English ownership. America also gets credit for the first mass produced car and the first car with a modern control layout.

>>13969205
>it routs engine coolant through a heat exchanger that heats up the oil when cold but keeps it below 2220F when driven on the street.
Ah, never seen a water cooled oil cooler. I highly doubt the catalytic converter is a problem. The real issue is the way the car is tuned.q

>>13969299

Even /o/s meme car the miata uses a coolant based oil cooler.

It's pretty fucking common.

>>13969205
that is terribad placement....

>>13969299
oil-to-water coolers are really common on Ferd and Chebby trucks in the US. I've also seen them on Mazdas and VW's of various ages.

Usually they're either sandwiched under the oil filter, or built into a radiator tank. The Corvette's setup, with a large cooler adjacent to the oil filter, is relatively unique. That cooler is 2-3x the size of the ones that I've seen in sandwich-type installations.

But there's no way that can sit 1.5" from the cat and not suck up exhaust heat.

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>>13969283

>>13969225
220º when used with coolant
2200º when used with exhaust

>there are yuro-plebs who honto-ni believe that they invented the first car

Umm quick history lesson
Automobile is an American word.
I get that the Germans are still salty over back to back defeats in the World Wars, but lets not get delusional again. We wouldn't want you to think you stand a chance now that you've been pummeled back into the stone ages along with the rest of Europe.

>>13969766
Aw11 mr2's have an oil to water oil cooler.

>>13969283
According to topgear (shit source) first car with a modern 'pedals on the floor' approach was french

>>13969170
this is why i dont take advice on /o/

>>13969283
Question is what defines car, because originally it was 'motorized carriage' or 'horseless carriage'

>>13969152
Because GM told its engineers that it needed to make a faster car than the ZR1 for about 50 grand less.

GM has hit a paywall.

Seems like an easy enough fix at least, relocate the cat or ditch it entirely.

But why was this not found sooner?

>>13970452
>america
>ditch the cat
literally impossible for a manufacturer to do

>>13970470
I meant it as something the consumer could do. A fair amount of states have literally zero inspections, I don't have cats on my foxbody.

>>13969873
The C7 was also rushed into production. The whole bail out situation meant that the C7 only had a fraction of its requested budget and several years of development time lost. Similar things have happened to past generation Corvettes except the C6. Now that GM is starting to get performance cars more seriously they need to give the Corvette a real halo car budget.