[NightmareZL1]

Originally Posted by Bhobbs

The same thing can be said about strapping a blower on a 6.2. It's only a marketing decision, right?

GM engineers called for specific tire specs and the tires they are using met those.

Nope. Blower and associatted equipment adds weight and brings in the heat soak problem. Those are negative for tracking a car, one z strips down, the other z bulks up, each has a leg up in one aspect of road racing. Power versus nimbleness. Now give them the same tires and see which mods came out on top and by how much.
It is so adorable to see that the z28 has fans so faithful that they not only ignore the tire advantage, but deny it is an advantage.

Any two cars, owned by any two person, wanting to road race for the best times, will both pick the stickiest tires possible such that the winner shall be found by the merits of the car or of the driver. Given the same driver for both cars, only the merits of the car will be proven superior. I would like to see the merits of the car seen superior....either car.