Change in Plans

[edram454]

Just to let my forum members know, due to terrible logistics and my inability to find anybody in Florida to work on my car and my bad experiences with a noted Georgia tuner I have bought a modded c5 z06 and am selling my zr1. Living in Miami with a zr1 is like living in no mans land. The closest notable lt5 repair shops are 20 hours away. After spending in excess of $3000.00 in truck freight tows, mainly to repair mistakes done by the mechanic, I cannot continue to dump money and time into this car and keep my sanity.

I dont have the space or tools to do my own work and even though my car has been very good to me, my idea of performing some upgrades on my car lead me into a world of suffering and missed promises and loss of money and time that has soured my feelings and my drive to keep my car. My car has wonderful mods including a black refinished engine etc... but I must think when I retire I will not be able to take those kinds of losses in case anything did happen to break on it. The car throws no codes and runs great and is properly set up. This is a good time to pass it on to someone whose circumstances are better than mine. I will always love the zr1 and will always have my memories. I only got to drive her 2,000 miles the whole time I owned her and half of that was driving one time to the Georgia tuner who has decided to close his shop.

Being a member of this forum is mandatory if one is going to own one of these beasts. Before I bought my Zr1 I sold a 505 horse c5 coupe to make room for the z. I now go back to a c5 but this time a z06 with 553 crank horsepower and 481 rear wheel horsepower on dynojet dyno. It is all natural engine power with forged internals, cam kit with ls7 clutch and it has 30k miles in mint condition. It is of course, black on black. I heard that black cars are a bit faster on this site. I will always respect the zr1 LT5 car and its owners. I wish you all the best. I have sold most of my misc parts to a forum member whom I met on the phone and schooled him on the history of the zr1. He did not even have one at the time and now he has two!! There is a wealth of knowledge in the forum membership and you are the ones directly responsible in keeping the LT5 relevant and promoting the fact that it is probably the finest engine chevy has ever sold. There is a terrible need for knowledgeable repair people in the southeast since the only guy closed his doors for good reasons. Thanks for replying to my silly questions and comments in the past.

ed ramos #3028