[ParisTNDude]

Originally Posted by Deki

No but you're $4300 away from a full Pedders set up that will pull 1.2G's at the track and that will more than walk away from the ZL1 in every respect. The point I was trying to make, you can't compare modified cars. It's a useless argument. Stock for stock, they are neck and neck. MT observed brake fade, no other publication did. I think a few things attributed to that....1. Insufficient cooling because Ford wanted to claim the 200mph+ top speed 2. RP took the car to it's ragged edge and exploited the weakness of the insufficient cooling of the brakes and 3, which is just a speculation, they did not use the proper fluid as stated in the manual to prevent the over heating of the fluid. We have no evidence to show us whether the fade was caused by the pads, rotors or fluid. From the Raven footage at Sebring and the other track which I'm too lazy to think of or look up, their modified GT500 with tune and DOT4 fluid, on stock rotors, pads, and tires, never had an issue with brake fade, which leads me to believe it was the fluid in the MT that did the car in. 15" 6 piston Brembos up front are no joke, and have been shown to slow the GT500 from 60 and 70mph faster than the ZL1. Just my 2 cents.

Dang!....Deki...this is the second time in recent weeks we agree on something...the sky is falling!

It is silly to bench race two fantasy cars with mods. Just take both of these awesome cars at face value and enjoy them. It's unfortunate that I will never be able to afford both, so I have to rely on the magazines for their impressions on cars I'm interested in. When you read ALL the reviews, a savvy car guy can weed out the BS and, even by concensus, determine for themselves which car is the better. At some point in life, we have to realize our "favorite" isn't always the winner.