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It actually makes me think more of an Audi R8 than a Camaro. There have been a lot of uglier concept pics of what the rear might look like so I don't mind it.

Just about all nameplates lost money and the whole worlds sale's were in the crapper. It isn't a Vette specific issue. Bad cars and no interest doesn't happen over night. Stock market crashes do. The toy market crashed and the Vette is a toy. Ask anyone who has tried to sell privately in the...

I am looking at buying a C5 from about 2000 miles away. It has ride adjustable QA1s, 19" wheels, and has been lowered. I am really worried about it being damaged in shipping. Other than overinflating the tires(which might give what ,3/16") what is the simplist method of temprarily increasing the...

Thanks Jeff. I think I must be close to that. I am sure I could still squeeze out high 20s with a 60 mph cruise but I don't usually drive that slowly.:) I find the Hotcam drives pretty close to the cam in my C5 Z06 except it doesn't smooth out until maybe 1800 rpm where the Z was cruisable at...

I don't really care for myself but will be selling her this year and a lot of people ask. I have gears and headers/catback as well. And Merry Christmas:beer

I don't think you need to do a head swap to get 450 crank hp from an LT4. Just a mild port and a lumpy enough cam. The tranny is not as beefy in the LT4 as the earlier LT1 cars. The ZF is rated for 400ft lbs or something llike that and the T56 from the Z28s and C5s is much stronger. I think it...

With stock valvetrain, headers and CAI. I have only ever seen dyno sheets on LT1s with this cam and they seem to fall off pretty fast after 6000rpm but it seems like my curve doesn't dive quite as early. Anyone?

I am going with a 255 45 Sumitomo on the stock 17" front rims and it is about 1/2" taller than the runflats, although no wider. The tire shop says I will have rubbing issues. They are not a performance tire specialist so not sure if I should take the car elsewhere. Will this 1/2" height cause...

It looks like ZF says every 30,000 miles so you are right on there. It also looks like the recommended product is actually an engine oil rather than a gear oil:confused TRANSMISSION OIL (status) - Vascular flow of oil through the porous Phosphorus-bronze (Pb) material of each synchronizer is...

I don't recall ever doing it in the old 4 speed cars but the technology has changed obviously. In a sealed unit does age of the fluid matter, or should you be looking strictly at mileage? My 96 has only 24k on it so I wouldn't be assuming the oil is degraded but what do you guys think?

I paid 18k for mine with 23,000 miles. Very nice BUT mods(hotcam, headers, gears etc). This would have really narrowed the market for the seller but was worth more to me so I consider it a huge score. Bought out of Autotrader. Corvetteforum.com has a nice for sale section and is a great place to...

Bob the info I have on the weights from published GM sources is 3298 for the LT4 and 3117 for the 02Z so 181 lbs difference and presumabley GM used the same process and fluid levels for the record. If your numbers didn't match these I'll bet the discrepancy was with the scales you used rather...

Gears. http://www.corvetteactioncenter.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90001

I think an LT4 would hand it to an L71 car unless the older car had slicks. I remember one of the car mags ran a stock early C5 against a restored 427-435 and the big block got destroyed, even with modern rubber(N50-15s?). Nose heavy and peakier engine in a heavier car with worse aerodynamics...

C4s are at least 20 years away from being collectable, and given the absence of body changes during the model run(people who don't know C4s can't even pickout a ZR1)only a few models have much hope. Excluding the zero miles cars, I would think only low mileage LT4s and ZR1s have a shot at being...

I was on one of the Vette boards a couple of weeks ago and found a compilation of magazine road test results for the Z06. It had the results of maybe 2 dozen tests in a spreadsheet layout. Now I can't find it. Has anyone seen his stuff?