01-16-2011, 08:41 PM | #85 |
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You two can both simply slap on a supercharger on your LS3s and try and fit some wider tires (good luck making 285s and 325s fit, by the way), and then do a drag run or, even better, take a lap around a road course and see how close your non-Warranty SS comes to the Z/28. It won't even be close, you would get destroyed. There is a few other tiny details that you are forgetting about that will make the Z/28 a vastly superior platform: MR shocks, huge rubber, better cooling, more aggressive bodywork, awesome CTS-V brakes, and an intact GM Warranty.
But, by all means, keep modding those SS's of yours (and see if you can match the list above and come in under $50K), meanwhile the guys who buy Z/28s will mod them as well, and basically have supercar performance at that point.
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01-17-2011, 05:05 AM | #86 | |
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As a owner of a modified CTS-V, it doesnt take much to make 700hp on a LSA equipped car. A 9.5 pulley and full exhaust for around 3k is a bargain
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01-29-2011, 11:54 AM | #87 | |
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You guys make very good points but are a few steps behind whats really happening! Get your LSA ( High HP Edition) Camaro now because in a couple years it's gone. Has nothing to do with Corvettes! The same thing that killed these cars in the late 60's and 1970 have doomed them again. Cafe standards (Govt fuel efficiency standards) My bet is the 2012 wont be called a Z28 because the original Z28's had 302 cubes and were track cars (more about handling and SCCA), not 500 HP or 427 behemoths going stoplight to stoplight (read SS Camaro here). So with the 2012 having an LSA and 500 plus HP it will be called something else. There wont be an LS7 to compete with the Laguna Seca Mustang, it will be a 5.5 liter, already in the Vette C6R when they moved to GT class. Maybe it will come out around the same time as the Camaro gets it's new redesigned platform and drops a few pounds (2014?) Maybe the next iteration Camaro with a 5.5 liter will be called Z28, competing with Fords Coyote engines/ Laguna Seca etc. BTW, There are two Chevy dealerships already producing the Camaro's you want; an LSX 454 Cube NA and a LS9 SC'd Camaro. These could be called todays COPO's.... Check out DeNooyer in NY and NeSmith in Georgia as mentioned in GM's performance parts catalogue Whether factory or dealer COPO, get your baddest Camaro now, because in a few years, they're all gone, as histoty repeats itself http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/...e9#/0637c8e9/4 I know, Best, ZR1 |
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01-29-2011, 01:01 PM | #88 |
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Who cares what original Z28's had, those cars (and that company, really) are dead. If that logic were true, since SS Camaro was top of the horsepower heap, we should never ever see a Camaro with more hp than a Camaro SS (GT500 be damned!).
As you can see, that logic makes little sense GM can use any badging they want on any model they want, the 99.999981% of the population interested in a Camaro could care less if the badging "goes up against" the name of some car from the 60s or 70s they prolly never owned. I'd rather not yearn for a heyday by looking backward. Who's to say GM wont hire out Yenko to do a Boss302 killer on the 2015 Alpha chassis? No one |
01-29-2011, 01:40 PM | #89 | |
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01-30-2011, 10:08 PM | #90 |
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01-30-2011, 11:57 PM | #91 |
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+1 That is what I did on my SS. I have owned too many sunroofs. I like the extra headroom with the sunroof gone! !Vamanos!
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01-31-2011, 09:11 AM | #92 |
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Underwhelmed, but then again.... pre-production and camo, wait and see approach.
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01-31-2011, 05:16 PM | #93 |
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Beautiful car, I wish we had and could get those wheels in post #11
My big question is why do they still have the ugly grill, why noy put the heritage grill on the Z?
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01-31-2011, 05:32 PM | #94 |
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Interesting comments and automotive forecasts in here...
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06-24-2011, 02:40 AM | #95 |
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any one seen a pic of the camaro with the chin spoiler without the ground fx pack?
holler at me!
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06-24-2011, 01:25 PM | #96 |
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