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Originally Posted by joelster
Exactly about the "streetability". You could daily drive a Z/28 provided you avoid the rain if you still have the Trofeo's. The magazine guys make it sound like it's a death machine on the road. Far from it, and the LS7 is incredible.
Take a 6th gen. Add a 580hp N/A LT1-variant engine that can pull to 7500 rpm. Add the exact carbon brakes from the 5th gen Z/28. Tweak the DSSV's from the 5th gen Z/28. Add carbon wheels, and gut it like they did the 5th gen Z/28. Get it around 3550lbs, and it will eat a ZL1-1LE alive at every track. Parts-bin shop the car with 5th gen parts to keep the cost in check. Build 500 of them. Keep the price at $75k.
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Then they shoot themselves in the foot by making the more expensive ZLE obsolete with higher performing car that costs less. I also don't think they could gut it down to that weight with out using some exotic/expensive materials.
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Originally Posted by doc7000
Zora has been dead for a long time and Tadge is in charge of the program today, so they choices being made are based on what Tadge wants and not what Zora wants.
The Corvette isn't the limiting factor for Camaro performance today and hasn't been the case for a number of years now.
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Yes and no. I would say Camaro isn't "held back intentionally" anymore but they are still "handcuffed" by Corvette. Camaro still has to use whatever engine is developed for Corvette