tim414
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Yesterday turned out to be a BEAUTIFUL spring-like day here in North Texas. Temp was near 60/deg. Bright sunshine w/not cloud in the sky. Perfect day for the Vette top-down. So, I took her out late in atfernoon after I got the chores done. Great day for riding the whining backroads that have the 'curves' Z51 was designed for. While motoring along at just about sunset I noticed something which makes me appreciate the engineers who desinged the C6 much more. My Vettes headlights had switched on given sun was almost down (still some daylight though) and driving the tree lined backroads made conditions lil bit darker as to present the 'halo' effect I see from the headlights of my C6. Anyway, I was coming out of a 45 degree right turn under 'hard acceleration'. The turn was (I think) called "reducing camber" turn? (meaning the curve was banked inward rather than outward). Vette was in 2nd gear. turning 39k rpm. I punch it. Initially it broke traction lil bit with bout 60-70% pedal. As the car hard-accelerated approaching 60mph the road suddenly had allot of 'ruts'. I noticed out front of the car the halo'd headlights were shaking up/down VERY rapidly. That visual sense gave me a feel of the road that I did NOT feel inside of the car. Yeah, I definitely knew I was on a rutted road, but the feeling sitting/driving the car was not near the visual sense of actually seeing how the suspension was traveling verses what I actually felt inside the car and how the vette handled under those conditions. Am I making any sense :confused??? The suspension design of these C6's is awesome. I know from driving vettes of the past the road condition I was driving on yesterday would have shook the car off the road without slowing it. I did let off acceleration but did not brake. (Only shifted to cruising gear). Anyway, thought I would share my experience w/Z51 yesterday. 
