Clearly you don't understand how car manufacturers operate. Luckily I worked with one of the guys that spent almost a year on the tuning of HSV's LS2 when they had it. Interesting fact, they were 297kw because that's all they could get out of them with the safety margins in place. HSV would have had a small group of engineers working on the LSA project and not much else. It's entirely feasible that it took them 3.5 years to get the cooling alone sorted when that team had to do everything else as well.Originally Posted by Speedy Gonzales
The difference between us is that you believe what HSV tell you, they are very good at marketing Ill give them that, building a car using overseas design and imported parts and advertising it as an engineering masterpiece is an art
3.5 years? Politics and red tape
What will be interesting is what will spares do with the excess parts, ADR mandates that 10 years worth of spares be available for a model? Cant remember the exact legislation.
100K car and it doesnt even have a front strut bar?
Think about doing hot weather testing only to run out of hot weather (seasonal changes). That's another 9 months before you can go at it again. Even on a cool day my car gets too hot after a bunch of laps, which would be unacceptable for a manufacturer, so it's obvious they had challenges.
Have you ever measured the compression flex between the towers of a VE? You'll probably find a strut brace has very little effect. It's marginal on the pre-VE models, let alone the VE which is much stiffer. Remember that little bolt on strut braces will only help reduce any compression flex between the towers.
