Optispark warning

I've had that happen to me before on other GM vehicles.... no idea what they were thinking back then.

------------------------------------ Mike Mangione

My newest Corvette is coming up on 34 years old; our Honda and Toyota must not have Optispark technology since I've sprayed the engines and undercarriage thoroughly with no problem. Sooooo, I have no idea what an Optispark looks like. Why can't a cover or shield be made to protect it from direct spray?

Here's waving to ya - \||||

Owen ___

'67BB & '72BB

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On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:37:28 GMT, "grayfox" puked:

Heh, I took my Camaro SS through one of those 'touch free' washes and it squirted water through the intake and soaked my air filter. Fortunately no water went into the engine.

Guess I should have thought about that...

-- lab~rat >:-) Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

Yeah, they should have spray tested it and changed the venting. The location was probably more driven by the changes in engine cooling flow considerations than by stupidity. They also may have considered Opti as interim to getting a high voltage 'four-pack' ignition for the 'vette.

In some defense of the engine guys, they needed more precise ignition timing than the HEI mag-pickup was delivering. Opti gave them that! Think back to where we were in the late '80s with Govt regulations, fuel formulation problems and limited bandwidth (sloppy) computers. Optispark made a lot of sense-- It was however one of the factors in my considering an L98 instead of an LT1 car. (I took a lot of dust & heat from the LT1 gang while I waited for my LS-1).

Note that, at the time, GM was using all electronic (no moving parts) ignition on many of their high production, small-block V6s. Getting the money to put it into production on the 'vette would have been tough. Even though most 'vette owners would like it differently, this car has to compete for capital investment right along with the Escalade and Impala.

there is an upside / ya won't run it through that car wash again !

g'day

maybe it was a good thing? if ya ran through too much water, your vehicle would stopped running.

no worries, not enough water to worry about. the water would have gone right through and out your exhaust pipe when ya started the car :-)

g'day

On Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:38:51 GMT, "'Key" puked:

But a soggy air filter doesn't flow well...

-- lab~rat >:-) Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

hear ya, but it wont be soggy for long :-)

:-)