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Which is the root cause of the problem.

Indefinitely - I custom spec'd this car for me, and plan to keep it. It'll stay stock for the next 7-8 years (extended B2B warranty) and after that the gloves come off (there should be lots of great parts developed and tested in the aftermarket by then).

Food for thought, you can always attempt to up the max values to avoid banging into a threshold. Factory settings in this TrackHawk tune were 6750 if I remember right: I am not going to commit much brain power to this simply because I don't have anything, or any reason, to test on/against...

Again, this is where you have to decide race car or street car. Race cars get race car parts, a bunch of broken ZF8s transmissions means that there are some slow learners. The aftermarket hasn't caught up yet because the demand doesn't exist yet to infuse real resources into R&D into bullet...

This picture gives me the urge to do many irresponsible things.

Are you a bot?

That dyno curve shows a big hole in the tune. That is not something I would be proud of - peak numbers aren't everything.

There is so much wrong with tuners guessing on your dime at the expense of your car and using you as a beta tester. Conjecture and uncertainty, and no real appreciation for the limitations of the ZF8 are pretty apparent here. Granted these cars have been around for a scant 5 years and the...

I port, shim, and lap the face plates of the oil pumps in my LS engines for increased pressure and flow... and never - ever - run a high volume pump.

I am sure Arizona summers could be an issue too.

I could tell you stories about some of the border crossing shenanigans we got up to in our younger days - but I am not sure if the statute of limitations has passed yet - so I won't.

Nice to see the aftermarket is starting to understand the basic science and principles of operating angles.

Is that driveshaft going to be a two-piece unit?

And give me your old 305s.

"...just so happens". You travel hockey parents are maniacs; I'd need "deal sweeteners" for that kind of effort too. I am pretty much done buying stuff for this car now. I cannot remember the last time I said that about any car I had... Okay, I lied... I am looking to land some of those 50th...

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Yup, I remember going through that discussion about that system a few months back. I never bought it simply because it didn't meet my needs. The trouble is while it will be louder, it doesn't change the elements that make for a true auditory sycophony that is inherently absent from modern...

I started a long-winded response on my phone and stopped. Valve events (like overlap) will have more bearing on sound (chop) than anything. As stated emissions compliant cams (even with VVT) cannot come close to anything from the aftermarket in this regard.

Awwww... am I supposed to drink the infallible Hellcat Kool-Aid in this self-ingratiating Jonestown camp? Ain't happening. I've custom built too many cars, and too many custom exhaust systems, to know what really good sounds like - and a Hellcat is good (good enough?) sounding for stock but...

Your hood pin tethers are triggering my OCD.