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Pretty much the exact same car except the body panels, interior, suspension, brakes, electronics suite, fire protection system, seats, harnesses, wheels, tires, probably engine, and transmission.
Pretty much the exact same car except the body panels, interior, suspension, brakes, electronics suite, fire protection system, seats, harnesses, wheels, tires, probably engine, and transmission.
When Milner says it isn't much different "from the current GTD race car", that does not equate to it being not much different from the street car. Sensational headline undermined by accurate commentary in the article.
Post #2 is accurate on the differences between the street car and the GT3.R Corvette. Also, the engine will have a very restricted single TB intake, lighter pistons and connecting rods commensurate with it's approximately 500 HP with ~7500 RPM limit and the entire racing oiling system will be different. Oh yes, and a sequential racing transmission.
Curated Content Editor is getting as bad as GM Authority for accuracy. Ridiculous!
UPDATE I sent a PM to CCE after I did the post yesterday, no response as of 3:49 MST today (Wednesday)
Last edited by AzDave47; 11-30-2022 at 05:46 PM.
Reason: RE PM sent to CCE
The original poster was repeating the title of the included article. His agreement with that title is not known.
The original poster represents the Corvette Forum. The article is written by someone that represents the Corvette Forum, specifically for the Corvette Forum. It then follows this is the opinion of the Corvette Forum.
Rough crowd! But some good points too. Could the writer be looking at this in a relative way? If you think of how Nascar has evolved (or devolved) where in the 70's, a car off the showroom floor actually had common engines/parts with the race car. Then fast forward to today when absolutely NOTHING is shared with a "stock" car. Then if you compare that reality to the C8R and the Z06, you can appreciate how similar they are? Just another perspective.
I am sorry, but very, very little is shared between the prior GTLM car, now converted to semi-GTD, or the forthcoming the GT3.R race car with the street car. Look at the lists above and tell me what major parts except perhaps some of the aluminum backbone chassis structure (I don't even know if this is essentially the stock piece) and the street car. A structural roll cage is obviously needed, but I don't know how it attaches to the (?? OEM) chassis. The basic engine design is "similar" and maybe a few of the engine parts are the same.
Suspension - full race suspension. Brakes, full race brakes, body panels can be recognized as developed from the OEM pieces but with changes and made with different materials. Transmission - sequential race transmission. Racing seat. Perhaps the tail lights are factory stock? It is not taking two years to make the GT3.R if it is closely related to the street car.
Re NASCAR, the current car is not stock. Prior generations? My 1994 NASCAR Taurus presumably required a stock roof panel and trunk panel "with mods". I never saw a Taurus trunk with the same shapes as on that Taurus. Also, the racing block was required to come out of a Ford Foundry. Nothing else was a factory OEM part. That is likely about how much is similar between the GT3.R and the street C8.
I think what he meant to say is the GT3.R isn't that much different from the C8.R Comparing the GT3.R to the street Z06 is just silly.
That is what Tommy Milner was saying when he was quoted in the article. That is not what the CCE stated in the article headline (and possibly in the article as well.
No where in that link does Milner compare the GT3.R to the production car. He compares it to the existing RACE car. Once again the curated content editor doesn't have a clue.
UPDATE I sent a PM to CCE after I did the post yesterday, no response as of 3:49 MST today (Wednesday)
Curated content articles aren't about facts or accuracy. They're click bait, designed to generate ad revenue when people click through page after page. The headline is deliberate nonsense to get people to click on it.
Re NASCAR, the current car is not stock. Prior generations? My 1994 NASCAR Taurus presumably required a stock roof panel and trunk panel "with mods". I never saw a Taurus trunk with the same shapes as on that Taurus. Also, the racing block was required to come out of a Ford Foundry. Nothing else was a factory OEM part. That is likely about how much is similar between the GT3.R and the street C8.
yep. The last NASCAR cars that were based on real "stock" platforms were probably in the 1960s.
11-29-2022, 06:15 PM
Corvette Z06 GT3.R Isn't Much Different Than Production Version
