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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
In most cornering situations (where there is not any significant bumpiness) and braking (up to the point of fade), the ZL1 is at best tied. Of course it'll run away and hide from the 1LE once the road straightens out again.
If you look a little deeper into the Lightning Laps comparison data, you'll see that the 1LE is a very good bang for the buck - and this holds true whether you're looking at this on a car cost basis or on a price-independent power to weight basis. For reference, the more top-end oriented GT500 is less efficient at generating its lap times than either the ZL1 or the 1LE regardless of whether you're looking at a cost or a power to weight basis.
Blueclyde - that the 1LE manages almost 98% of the ZL1's VIR lap performance on a course that has significant stretches that favor pure HP is huge when you consider that comes at only 2/3 the price and barely more than 3/4 of the power to weight. Brute force still wins, but by a closer margin than power to weight suggests should be the case.
Road & Track consistently found braking distances for the ZL1 to be longer than for the 1LE. Up toward 10 feet longer from their standard test speed for braking IIRC.
Norm
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My point was simple. A 1le is a factory modded ss. Even when I had one it was a bit frustrating at times when people thought or spoke of it as a completely different car. You hear "is that the ss?" Followed by "no, it's a 1le"....wrong! Anyone can buy an ss and make it the same as a 1le with with little investment (assuming your not buying wheels from gm). The 1le is still an ss. As a matter of fact you can buy the 1le suspension upgrade and add it to an ss and still maintain factory warranty.
So this thread is really still the basic ss vs zl1 topic. The only difference is with a 1le the cars coming with some factory mods.
I love both cars and think both are good values. The 1le package may be the best bang for your buck performance option available from any car manufacturer. You can't go wrong with either.