Recent content by 65hemi

I am selling the engine in my 2007 Z-06. It has only 900 miles on it. Mature owner. Never raced. Bought new by me in March 2007. Zero issues. Runs great. It is still in the car, you can hear it run. $10,000. Located in Tulsa, OK You pick up - no shipping. Bill

New C7? Talk about butt-ugly! Those headlights look like they were designed for a twelve-year old's toy car. Surely that pic is a spoof and not for real. If that's really the new C7, I'll be keeping my '07 Z-06 for a long time.

Unfortunately, dealers like that are the rare exception.:confused

I absolutely disagree. This is symptomatic of what is wrong with American business. It's called corporate greed. It's the same kind of thinking that drives them to pay a CEO ten or twenty million dollars a year when the company is losing money. And wealthy consumers aid and abet such...

All-wheel drive and gas mileage I don't know where you guys get these ideas about AWD and gas mileage. I have owned two full-sized Chevy pickups in recent years, both with a 350 cubic-inch V-8 engine and auto trans. One was a half-ton two-wheel drive, the other was a 3/4 ton 4-wheel drive...

C6 vs C5 The more I drive mine, the more I love it. The styling has really grown on me. I never did like the pop-up headlights. That was a bad idea that they kept for far too long. It is a gorgeous car and an awesome driving machine. The handling is noticeably better than my C5, and the...

The 2007 Porsche 911 twin turbo all wheel drive is rated 18 city, 25 highway. I wouldn't classify that as terrible. That's only one mile per gallon less than the highway rating on the Z-06. I have a new Toyota RAV-4 all wheel drive V-6 (269 horsepower) that gets 24 in town and over 30 on the...

Paddle-Shift Manual Gearbox You're right - I would assume that if GM does offer a paddle-shift on the Z-06 (or on the Blue Devil), it will be an automatically-shifted manual gearbox, and it will be expensive. I'm betting that one will come out on the Blue Devil, which will likely replace the...

Paddle-Shift Option for the Z-06 Why would you assume that GM would put a transmission on the Z-06 that was not adequate to handle its horsepower? I would assume just the opposite, that if they do offer a paddle-shift option on the Z-06 (the fastest car ever made by GM), they would design and...

Paddle-Shift Option for the Z-06 Good point!:)

You forgot Porsche - the 993 was the first turbocharged Porsche with all wheel drive in 1993. The new twin turbo 911 has all wheel drive and 480 horsepower, and turns the quarter-mile in 11.7 seconds (zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds) according to Road and Track Magazine. But the base price is...

Paddle-Shift Option for the Z-06 I like the idea of a paddle-shift auto trans on the Z-06. I drove a BMW M3 a couple of years ago with the SMG transmission. It was somewhat awkward to me at first, but I could easily get used to it with more driving time (I only drove it once). The thing that...

KaTech Package What does it cost, and what are the actual zero to 60 and quarter-mile times? And what tires are they using on the back? That is the real test as far as I'm concerned. It's not all that difficult to make a lot of power (if you have the money), but getting it on the ground...

Exhaust Switch Thanks, I just found them on the web.

Muffler Valves Thanks for the tip. I had heard that there was a way to disconnect the muffler valves by removing a fuse. I'll give that a try. The durn thing sounds like a sewing machine running at low rpm. It needs to sound like what it is - a world-class sports car! :lou