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Originally Posted by 8cam
It really is running better than ever, really a startling difference. My car sat in a warehouse for more than a decade and that neglect just isn't good for anything. By driving and fixing, I've been addressing all those things and now I suspect I'm driving a Z that feels like it did when it was new. Smooth, powerful, and pulls easily well beyond 7000 rpm.
Sounds like you have a vacuum leak somewhere under the plenum. When you can plug the pump line and it cycles off, your pump is fine. If there's a leak, it can't build the proper vacuum and just runs and runs. The pump is really only necessary at low rpm where the engine itself isn't pulling enough vacuum. When the rpms rise, the engine builds the vacuum and the secondaries work as they should, but the transition isn't as smooth as it should be.
LOL I really do enjoy it a lot. I think my wife would rather I had a newer car with a warranty that didn't require care and feeding, but I enjoy this a lot more. A car should have some personality, and give you the chance to bond with it. I had an M3 before the Z and it was absolutely perfect in every way - smooth, powerful, handled beautifully, built like only the Germans can, absolutely stone-cold reliable, perfect. Perfectly boring. To me it was an appliance, albeit a beautifully built one, and I just never bonded with it.
The ZR-1 is that amazingly beautiful American girl who doesn't think she's "got it" but with a little encouragement, can knock out a room with one smile. It just so happens she's become good friends with a fiery Italian who sings opera and knows how to dance. I think they are good for each other.  |
I have been lucky, it seems the more owners mine has had, the better....
I haven't had any "real problems" so far, other than replacing the clutch slave and master cylinder. I alway make sure that both the water temp and the oil temp are at operating temps before any hard acceleration. And I have to say, it has been smooth so far, but then again, I have only driven the Z about 2,000 miles in 7 1/2 months. So more driving is in order......
As far as the possible vacumm leak, I don't have a clue, simply because I don't understand and have alot to learn about the LT5. I have the books and the info from the forum, but no time, as least not the time needed to devote to learning. Maybe when I retire in 2 1/2 years.....
Well said on the comparision of the two....not only do they compliement each other, they were made to be together........
I think that you had said at one time, something in the order, that although they are similar in some ways, they are different.....
On a side note, two weeks ago on the PA pike, on my way back from my run, A 5th wheel pickup passed me with a new Ferrari F12Berlinetta on a car trailer. I couldn't believe my eyes. First time ever I saw a Ferrari being transported like that.....a very nice machine........
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Originally Posted by XfireZ51
I believe thoroughbreds have a personality, a character to them. They have an ego. Watching the Belmont race scene from the movie Secretariat gives you that sense that Secretariat had finally had enough of Sham and decided to just blow him off. Just destroy him so there would never be a question. If it's possible mechanically, I think the ZR is one of those cars with that kind of character.
A bit snobby with that wide tail, not a boulevard cruiser and soooo much more fun at speed. Almost a "come on and try me" personality. I have always enjoyed having "sleepers". A modded ZR certainly fits that bill for me.
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Also very well said, the simple joys of driving great performance vehicles, especially the ZR-1's....what more could you say!!!