09ZR1

I have the now 8 mile 2011 Carbon Edition coming soon as was looking through some articles from 2011 describing all the different things with the car that separates it from a C6 ZO7 with the Carbon Package. I ran across several press releases from GM that show it came with a carbon fiber pattern “engine cover’ which I assume is to be the fuel rail covers and I have found pictures of that but I don’t know if those were something that’s a aftermarket thing or were they really were supposed to be shipped to the dealers with the rest of the parts they had to install during the PDI. The dealership I’m buying the car from says they definitely don’t have them so


does anybody know about this? Thanks

scramblerman

First off congrats on the purchase, beautiful low mile carbon! I have researched the exact same thing and sent an email to GM. The info I got, long story short, the press releases were before the carbon editions came out and it was something GM changed before production. No idea why, probably bean counters trying to save money. Our cars should of came with those engine covers! Every carbon edition came with the plain red z06 ones unfortunately.

Turbo6TA

No longer made and might as well be made of "Unobtainium" ... In fact, they went extinct from GM about 7 years ago.

BTW .... I still have a set of these GM covers (for the wet sump LS3) that have the LS3 logo on them that are in mint condition and still sitting on my bedroom closet shelf.


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Turbo6TA

Not aftermarket .... authentic GM fuel rail covers

The LS3 covers were GM P/N: 19159030

Don't know the LS7 GM P/N

Dan_the_C5_Man

These cars were never shipped with special covers.. The Carbon's received standard engine covers.

On a similar note, our cars do not have a carbon roof, which kind of doesn't make sense, but it is what it is.

Is this the IO car that was sitting at a dealer for the last 9 years I posted about a while ago? Care to share what it went for? P.M if you want to keep it private, just idle curiosity on my part. Congrats!

09ZR1

Well that solves that mystery! Thanks for the information. Your probably right about the bean counters killing it off but with just 252 cars made how much could they really have saved by putting carbon fiber engine covers on a limited production car they named the Carbon Edition! They certainly would have made the cars more unique with them and since they obviously made at least one set to go with the press release why couldn’t they at least have made them a option? Crazy.

09ZR1

Do you have any interest in selling them?

Dan_the_C5_Man

Well, they wouldn't have been carbon fiber anyway, just standard plastic with a CF pattern.

Turbo6TA

If that question was addressed to me .... I gotta think about it

reasonable suspicion

were these actual carbon fiber?


if they weren’t the op could just have a red set hydro dipped they would literally be the same thing

Turbo6TA

Not real carbon fiber .... I guess you could have a set of standard covers hydro dipped in a satin carbon fiber finish.

I predict that someday these genuine GM covers will sell for some big bucks since they are so very rare ... go see if you can find a set ... my guess is that you wont

JABCAT

Personally I think the covers GM advertised with the Carbon Edition aren’t that great looking - they still look like plastic & not CF. My Callaway has real CF covers and they’re pretty nice I don’t know if anyone makes genuine CF LS7 covers but that’s what I’d look for.

09ZR1

yes it is, PM me if you decide to

09ZR1

Those do look good, I was only wanting to know if the carbon fiber patterned ones were supposed to be with the car, if they were I wanted the car to correct as far as stock...

Turbo6TA

If you have a 2011 Carbon Edition Z06, I don't think you want fuel rail covers that have LS3 inscribed in them ??

EDIT: And mine have the hole in the passenger side cover that the oil fill neck pops through (for the wet sump engine) ... won't look good if used on a dry sump engine.

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Turbo6TA

I really like the looks of your Callaway CF covers ... But, I would not want to install Callaway covers on a non-Callaway car (just don't seen right)

09ZR1

[QUOTE=Turbo6TA;1601900707]If you have a 2011 Carbon Edition Z06, I don't think you want fuel rail covers that have LS3 inscribed in them ??

EDIT: And mine have the hole in the passenger side cover that the oil fill neck pops through (for the wet sump engine) ... won't look good if used on a dry sump engine.

I wouldn’t be putting them on the Carbon, I’m keeping it stock, I had just read the GM press release saying they came with Carbon Fiber “Patterned” engine covers and if that were true I wanted to make sure they didn’t get misplaced at the dealership. I bought a 2008 supercharged Corvette with the LS3 I bought from a really nice guy who’s a member on here a few months ago I would put them on.

JABCAT

No, definitely not. Was just showing them as an example of real cf covers vs the plastic GM covers with the cf pattern.

09ZR1

The crazy thing about that is if you got the Carbon Fiber Package option on a regular ZO6 it included a painted black carbon fiber roof but not the carbon fiber hood. I bought this 2011


IO Hennessy ZO6/ZO7 with the HPE 600 package with the CFP option that came with the full length CF rear spoiler painted black, CF black painted side mirrors and I think you could have ordered the CF raised hood that came with the CFE giving you more actual CF parts than you got with the Carbon Edition.