Thread: SS to ZL1
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Old 03-19-2025, 02:43 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by arpad_m View Post
No contest to the fact that a ZL1 straight out the gate is more cost effective. This isn't the question here, though.

At this point, however, we've reached subjective territory. My current setup with 735 rwhp is absolutely night and day vs a stock SS and it's much faster than a stock ZL1, too. However, I rode in 900-1000 rwhp modded ZL1s, and those are the only Camaros that I feel are yet another notch higher up the "crazy pole". So to me, personally, a 200 rwhp difference (starting from sub-1000) is where "night and day" kicks in, but to someone else a much smaller gain could be life changing, too. As I said, subjective stuff.

Corner speed and out of corner acceleration depends heavily on tires and suspension, too, a properly supercharged SS 1LE is very close, if not better than a stock ZL1.
Agreed on most of what you said, just again we get to the same argument. Dumping X amount of $ into an ss 1le to be at best, marginally better than a stock zl1 which at that point, the zl1 would likely cost less & gives you that much more of a platform to work with.

Both are great options whichever direction someone goes, time and budget usually are the constraints why one picks one over the other. Ego too I guess, it's same argument the m340 guys have with the m3 guys and vice versa. At the end of the day one is an ///m or ZL1 and the other isn't.
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