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REGARDLESS, preventing option selection is weight prevention, not weigh reduction. My point in many threads is the Z28 was never light weighted. And everyone on Camaro5 (seems like everyone) believes that lightweighting the Gen5 is in the spirit of the Z28 and my contention is that it was not. And an automatic was available in the 70 1/2 Z28 was it not?
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You are correct on the automatic for the 2nd gen Z's. Only Muncie 4-speeds for the 1st gen Z's.
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So you are saying no weight reduction right?
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05-04-2011, 08:03 PM | #34 |
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Look to the Boss 302 for Z28 content.
Don't look for major weight reduction until the Zeta platform ends. IMHO |
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I'm ok with that. My beef is everyone thinking that "light weight" is part of the Zquation. It never has been. So I can only wonder why everyone seems to think the Camaro needs to lose weight. Hmmmmmmmmmmm??? Simply that the Mustang is a smaller and hence lighter car. So people are "fabricating" this light weight Z28. It never was. It may have been a "restricted" weight but that's all.
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I think you and I are in violent agreement except on the point of not adding mass actually makes the car lighter. It simply make the car not as heavy as it could be. But maybe that's just ta-may-toe and toe-mah-toe. Quote:
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05-05-2011, 09:45 PM | #39 |
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I haven't had the pleasure of being in this game for the past 30+ years like some....and so I wonder...
Was the "fix-all" weight perception as strong then as it is today? |
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To respond to earlier decussion about the early year of the Z/28. Automatics and A/C were not an option on the Z/28 until 1973, before that the engine had an RPM range just not compatable with those options. |
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The Boss is almost 3,700 lbs yet it puts up some supercar numbers. Skidpad, slalom, and braking are unbelievable. Look at the lastest comparisons in June's Road and Track magazine.
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