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Corvette Today: Meet The E-Ray Integration Engineer Cody Buckley

On this episode of CORVETTE TODAY, you'll meet one of the fresh, new shining faces of the Corvette team. Cody Bulkley (pronounced Buckley) is the Performance Integration Engineer for the new Corvette E-Ray. Now, you're probably saying to yourself, "What is a Performance Integration Engineer?" https://youtu.be/jAlb0CCv6eI?si=YbBYl7OqiAkWWq-h; https://podcasts.adorilabs.com/corve...Yj6dBD5JYh43W0

Cody explains that when he sits down with your CORVETTE TODAY host, Steve Garrett. Plus, Cody is the guy who did that awesome "Cyclone Spin" in New York City's Rockefeller Center on January 17th, 2023 when the Corvette E-Ray debuted.

Cody's excitement and enthusiasm for the new E-Ray is blatantly obvious in this episode of CORVETTE TODAY...it makes me want one!

You can also see the video of the Cyclone Spin on this new episode of CORVETTE TODAY!
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2024 & 2023 Corvette Info Including E-Ray, SR & Z06 Pricing, SR & Z06 Visualizers, 70th Anniversary Info, Press Releases for SR & Z06 & Their Build & Price, Order Guides & Visualizers

2024 Order Guide Here: https://www.gmfleetorderguide.com/NA...=22639&type=0#
2023 Corvette Brochure: https://www.chevrolet.com/content/da...D7Q0fp8nIEE57Y
E-Ray Visualizer: https://visualizer.chevrolet.com/ui?...US&channel=b2c
Official E-Ray Press Release: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...-press-release
Official GM E-Ray Pictures: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...and-visualizer
+ 25 KEY E-Ray Components/Factors: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...rs-information
E-Ray Leaked Info/Visualizer: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...tte-e-ray-leak
Z51 & Z06 GM Track Specs: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...ecommendations
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Z06 Order Guide: https://www.gmfleetorderguide.com/NA...D=22412&type=0
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*2023 SR & Z06 Official Owners Manual: https://www.corvetteblogger.com/docs...ersManual.pdf; and,
https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...owner-s-manual
* 2023 GM Bash Major Seminar with HQ video: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...ore-bash-video
*2023 Stingray Visualizer: https://visualizer.chevrolet.com/ui?...US&channel=b2c
* COPMPLETE 2023 STINGRAY PRICING: https://www.corvetteactioncenter.com...ion-Center.pdf
*2023 Stingray (ONLY Order Guide: https://www.gmfleetorderguide.com/NA...D=22412&type=0
*70th Anniversary Combined Press Release For SR & Z06: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...iversary-model
*Z06 Press Release: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...-press-release
*Z06 Reveal Pictures: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...eveal-pictures
*Z06 Visualizer: https://visualizer.chevrolet.com/ui?...US&channel=b2c
Order Guide (unofficial): https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...-action-center
*Z06 vs Z07 Aero Components: https://www.midenginecorvetteforum.c...s-similarities
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  • Clay model in aero video

    What is this model, and why do they have it in the video of the C8?

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    Exactly. Your guess is just as good as anybody. Could it be past ? Could it be future?
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    • #3
      That side vent looks sleeker than the Stingrays......very nice......
      I’m goin’ driving 👍

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      • #4
        Well I love ME cars, and that also looks way cool
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        • #5
          I think it was an early clay when they were still working out the main features. I wonder if the other side has different sculpting? They often do that when this early in the process.

          And don't be deceived by the ZR-1 in the background, it could have been in the studio well before its release having final tweaks being done. So the timing may be earlier than you think.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Meldoon
            That side vent looks sleeker than the Stingrays......very nice......
            The side vent *looks* like a stingray! Squint a bit and you'll see the similarity to the emblem. Personally, I'm glad they didn't get too attached to that concept.

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            • #7
              I made a thread on this before, personally I think it’s a future hp variant.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by CraZ8
                I made a thread on this before, personally I think it’s a future hp variant.
                I understand your logic, but I find it hard to believe GM would leak anything remotely related to a future product this way.
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                • #9
                  I spoke one on one with Kirk Bennion at the Petersen Museum over the weekend. He said they had no less than 30 iterations for the front corner intakes to get them just the way they wanted. I'm sure this clay is one of many they had, and not a future design.
                  Last edited by Chris Draper; 07-30-2019, 02:46 PM.

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                  • #10
                    Looks like an early clay model. The C7 ZR1 in the background is also a clay model.

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                      Originally posted by Chris Draper
                      I spoke one on one with Kirk Bennion at the Petersen Museum over the weekend. He said they had no less than 30 iterations for the front corner intakes to get them just the way they wanted. I'm sure this clay is one of many they had, and not a future design.
                      GREAT post Chris!!! Excellent info and lucky you to have had that conversion. Kirk loves not just his design times, but as an HPDE instructor himself, loves to spend time in the wind tunnel refining the aero on our Corvettes. As Tadge reported, Kirk was in GM two great wind tunnels over 100 hours just fine tuning the 2019 ZR1. I will ask him at the Bash how many hours he spent inside of them on the C8.

                      GM has this excellent process for aero, first initial design, then subjecting those designs to a combination of Cray and other computers, superb software, wind tunnels, fine tuning with 3D printing fractionally each small-changed part, testing them again in the wind tunnel, etc. I know that the C7 Stingray/Z06 door mirrors, its spoiler, and its top-of-rear-fender NACA ducts collectively went through that process hundreds of times for the C7 development process.
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