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Originally Posted by VADER SS L99
 Two complete different syles of looks , "feel", acceleration, braking and handeling. It would actually be hard to even match the acceleration much less everything else. The ZO6 is a drag radial away from running 10's bone stock down to the air filter. The front end feels like its going to break apart from the rest of the car and run away from you. The acceleration is brutal and down right scary. The car can beat up on cars that cost 5 times its price in any direction. Its just 2 completely different classes of cars. Even if you some how got a Camaro to perform on par with a ZO6 in every direction you might as well have bought a new ZO6 because your overall cost of the Camaro would be more than the Vette. The overall comparison would be like comparing the Camaro SS to a new Joe Gibbs Silverado. |
Good point, you can mod almost any car to run like a true race car, but it takes a team of brilliant engineers to make it cost the price of a Z06 AND guarantee the reliability up to 100K miles. I'm actually in the (drawn out) process of modding my Z06 to run like a ZR1 by bumping the HP and racing out the suspension and brakes (probably a total of $15K - $20K in mods). In the end, it still won't be as comfortable as a ZR1 because it will only have "1 mode" ("race car mode") and, more importantly, I will no longer be under warranty. So considering what it costs to mod a Z06 to perform like a ZR1 and the untangle costs of being able to change the performance mode automatically while being warrantied for 100K miles, even the cost of a ZR1 is still a performance bargain. I'm not sure anyone can justifiably argue about the cost of the Camaros and Vettes in each of their performance categories. They are just right.
BTW, Jamie Furman (Z06 forum member) got a bone stock Z06 on stock rubber in to the 10's
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1/4 - 10.981
MPH - 128.90
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-z...fast-list.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/1562974169-post219.html
NOT easy to do given that that's the world record I believe??? But doable once in a lifetime it seems. DR's make it fairly repeatable though.