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Originally Posted by ricknasty.com
Guys,
I'm on a 4-10wk plan to get a ZL1 in the 33-38k price range. I have seen from stock with warranty up to 130mph trapping cars in this range. My intent with the car:
1. Year-round daily driver in Florida. It will essentially be my mini-van that will haul a 3 and 6yo around with all the family endeavors in between. Monthly cross state road trips are likely. If left in mild-medium/mild form, these things are bullet proof. Check the thread "How many miles on your ZL1" and you'll see people with north of 40,000 miles with no issues.
2. At this stage, reliability and maintenance free are a slightly higher priority than a few extra whp. Yeah, no problems there.
3. I've daily driven a 115mph trapper and always wanted a few more hp.You can do some basically bolt ons, will discuss below
How are you guys daily driving these cars? Are you mostly stock? Basic bolt-ons and still reliable? What about a nice cam in this car? Curious to see how many miles on each configuration and the goods and bads that came with it. Bolt ons are dead reliable in these cars. A cam, eh, it does put a little more strain on the parts, I'd hold off on a cam for now.
Does first gear dead hook from the factory? If not, at what power level does first become unusable with a street worthy tire? No, on OEM tires, my ZL1 does not dead hook in 1st and I'm 100% bone stock. Honestly first thing I'd do is get tires for the car, and I'd run some BF-G Comp 2 A/S Tires if I was you, super affordable but a helluva performer. They perform better than stock tires from what I've read, plus they can take cold temps and rain, in addition to lasting for a lot of miles.
Anyone hit 100k miles on one of these yet? Not sure about that.
Also, do any of you engineers have a consumables type spreadsheet that shows your TCO over time?
Thanks for the help!
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Answered most of the stuff above in bold. Also, if you're planning on daily driving the car, then I'd leave it stock. If you want to mod, I'd do a cold air intake, headers/cat delete, and tune. At most you could add a 10% overdrive pulley. ANYTHING past this and you'll run into issues with high temperatures and running out of fuel due to the stock fueling/injectors. Yeah, leave it stock if you daily it.
However if you must mod it, then there's all kinds of stuff we can talk about. As a Floridian though, you are going to struggle with temperatures if you increase boost. These cars, and all supercharged cars for that matter, become dogs in 80%+ humidity and 85+ degree days. So like I said, I'd leave the boost alone unless you want to invest big coin in heat exchangers, thermostats, and possibly an interchiller.