Corvette Flambee!

[DrumrBoy]

Posted this in the General Discussion area, not sure it belongs here either but its worth a look.

Turn 8 at Road Atlanta, the Corvette no-lift-shifts and misses.... causing big-time overrev and fairly dramatic results. Camera car is a CMC Mustang; this was in a DE session, not a W2W race!

[media]http://vimeo.com/17843110[/media]

 

[Mutts02GTS]

Looks like an expensive "Missed Shift" What's that saying? "You gotta pay if you wanna play?!"

 

[DrumrBoy]

Yeah, not sure of the benefit of no-lift shift on a road course, but its a decent place to practice it if that's your inclination.

The block broke and, per a pal of mine, identifyable pieces of internals (pistons, connecting rods etc) were found on top of the control arms. Ouch.

 

[Phun70]

That's them chivvys.

 

[01sapphirebob]

That *****.

 

[RevHeat]

Yeah, not sure of the benefit of no-lift shift on a road course, but its a decent place to practice it if that's your inclination.

That is called playing with fire and now he knows why people made up that expression. No need to no-lift shift at a DE.

 

[Fatboy 18]

Oh boy, that's gonna hurt the wallet

 

[fireball]

That's too bad.....

I don't know why anyone would do a no-lift shift - unless you had a gearbox designed just for that - or hated your car.

Anyway, it looked like a nice car that was apparently abused to death.

Greg

 

[Twister]

shoulda had a viper

I know the no lift shift is pretty popular for the 1/4 mile...I would have thought his rev limiter would have prevented this?

 

[eucharistos]

he read about it on the internet

 

[Chuck 98 RT/10]

If it wasn't a dedicated track car before it is now.

 

[JohnnyViper]

isnt that normal for a corvette

 

[Twister]

Normal for the f458 i thought...vettes just usually try to make burn out vids and blow the clutch??????

 

[JohnnyViper]

lol, i love the video of the "clutch burnout"

 

[MichaelThurston]

Vipers have been known to miss the up shift and catch a lower gear. This tends to lock up the rears and spin the car into the walls. Saw the patches of paint on both sides of the track at Road Atlanta.

 

[fireball]

Vipers have been known to miss the up shift and catch a lower gear. This tends to lock up the rears and spin the car into the walls. Saw the patches of paint on both sides of the track at Road Atlanta.

Cars don't miss upshifts - drivers do.

Greg

 

[TrackAire]

May have not been an over-revving issue (don't know if Corvettes can "over-rev", thought they had rev limiters). This wasn't a mechanical over-rev from mis-shifting was it?

Same thing happen to two Z06 drivers I know on open tracks, both 2006 Z06's. There is definately some sort of flaw in the motor of those cars. GM would not cover it under warranty since they claimed he was on a race track, hence racing...even though it was a documented high performance driving school event. He actually went to arbitration and lost.

Same explosion like fire, actually melted his rear tail lights!

Nothing that approx a $35k Katech replacement motor didn't fix

Could have had a very nice ACR for the price of a Z06 and motor upgrade, with better brakes and a more robust platform.

Cheers,
George

 

[mattdillon]

Vipers have been known to miss the up shift and catch a lower gear. This tends to lock up the rears and spin the car into the walls. Saw the patches of paint on both sides of the track at Road Atlanta.

I think one of the guys in the Mid-South Region recently did this on the last get together. I wasn't able to go but I'd heard someone down shifted & I think he went into first instead of third & went thru a fence & into a pasture before he came to a stop. I don't think anybody was hurt, just maybe a bruised ego & a new paint job.

 

[DrumrBoy]

May have not been an over-revving issue (don't know if Corvettes can "over-rev", thought they had rev limiters). This wasn't a mechanical over-rev from mis-shifting was it?

Same thing happen to two Z06 drivers I know on open tracks, both 2006 Z06's. There is definately some sort of flaw in the motor of those cars. GM would not cover it under warranty since they claimed he was on a race track, hence racing...even though it was a documented high performance driving school event. He actually went to arbitration and lost.

Same explosion like fire, actually melted his rear tail lights!

Nothing that approx a $35k Katech replacement motor didn't fix

Could have had a very nice ACR for the price of a Z06 and motor upgrade, with better brakes and a more robust platform.

Cheers,
George

I agree, and that's what I thought (and probably what actually happened) since it'd be hard to overrev it THAT much with the gas pedal, given the rev limiter.

That was his story (at least as told to me) ....I'm just the reporter

 

[Mopar Boy]

That *****.

I was going to go with that blows!