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Old 03-17-2019, 12:09 PM   #156
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Drives: 2018 Camaro 2SS A8
Join Date: Jul 2017
Location: East Tennessee
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Originally Posted by Camarolover85 View Post
Yeah I haven’t seen one with mag ride, Becky has a blue one too with NPP and the Bose but no mag ride. Damn. None of my cars have been forced induction, my past 2 Camaros are the fastest and they’re V6’s. I’m just getting that 😳😳 feeling about 65K financed haha. I don’t want the 1LE though because I won’t track it. It’s hard to get over the 2018’s though because I love the style and the 2019 is so god awful. If I can’t snag a ZL1 who knows if they’ll screw that up too. I can’t now with the lease, it will make the payments an obscene amount of money unless there is a 2018 somewhere in America. The dealership didn’t even look, he just mentioned 2019’s. Talking to my wife she agrees but she’s alluding she’s expecting me to do this in a few years. I think she was under the impression there’s no way I could make it work right now anyways. I would hate to wait and the new ones look like the 2019 SS’s and by than I’m stuck trying to buy a car that’s 2-3 years old that someone drove the hell out of and turned in.
If you never had an FI car and only V6 Camaros, the progression I opted for may be worth considering. You snag a 2018 2SS at a great price now, get used to the power, then add FI relatively cheaply for much more power, lots of joy every step of the way, still for less than a ZL1. Avenues are still wide open afterwards for tires, wheels, headers, cam, exhaust, 1LE upgrades, aero parts, engine rebuild, you name it.

In the end this will have cost more than a ZL1 that you leave stock forever, but you'll get the fun in appreciable bursts and you (perhaps even your wife) get to be part of the build story as well.
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2018 Camaro 2SS — G7E MX0 NPP F55 IO6
735 rwhp | 665 rwtq

Magnuson TVS 2300 80mm pulley | Kooks 1 7/8" LT headers | JRE smooth idle terminator cam | LT4 FS & injectors | TSP forged pistons & rods
JMS PowerMAX | DSX flex fuel kit | Roto-Fab CAI | Soler 95mm LT5 TB | 1LE wheels | 1LE brakes | BMR rear cradle lockout | JRE custom tune

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3000 - 2/06/18 TPW 2/26/18
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4300 - 2/27/18 | 4B00 - 3/01/18
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