Thread: Does anyone think that car companies should offer small engines in their luxury cars?
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Old 01-07-2007, 06:36 PM
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Default Re: Does anyone think that car companies should offer small engines in their luxury c
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...but the part about it not getting into the C6 because of some exhaust manifolding issues???? c'mon....
Not exhaust MANIFOLD, but EXHAUST packaging. And that was only one of the issues. If you've ever spent much time under the floorpan of a Corvette, you'll notice there ain't a lot of real estate under there. Everything is packaged very tightly. The requirements for active exhaust hardware did not allow for packaging under the Vette. Meagher is an engine / powertrain engineer, so he was speaking from the parts of the system that he understands. There were other vehicle related issues that he would not have been called upon to resolve that also needed to be addressed. Those items were not discussed in the quoted interview.

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