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Originally Posted by 5ABI VT
I have owned a few german cars, VW and a BMW. I sold them because like you mentioned.. they require a fair bit of $$ for maintenance. Im a DIY kind of guy so none of my cars has ever seen a dealer or shoppe (fingers crossed) for the last 15 or so years and hopefully never will. Turning rotors is a fraud in the auto industry in my opinion. it should never be done. $2300 sounds like a lot but if it were me and priced out accordingly I probably could have picked up a used brembo kit or retrofit from another vehicle for the car for that amount scavenging the forums for those cars. Of course I will admit that I do appreciate the level of refinement they provide, its just not in my income range to be able to just drop one off at a dealer and say service it. I have yet to drive anything american that compares to even my e46 M3 in terms of refinement. Even my passat wagon.. puts my ctsv to absolute shame in terms of design, engineering and refinement. But I chose to buy a ctsv because its a pickup truck drivetrain in a 4 door chassis and its cheap to maintain and modify/upgrade when repairs are needed and is a more diy friendly vehicle.
If I had a LOT of money.. I would buy a blue c6 ZR1, paint the roof and b- pillar blue, lower it on coilovers and add some HREs. I would pull the LS9 and sell it to someone looking to do a restomod, and I would plop a fully built no expense spared LT5 in there  . i would also enlarge the window on the hood for obvious reasons  |
You are right about the refinement of the euro cars and high end asian cars. they put alot more money in those cars but it tends to price out a lot of people who would like to own one but cant afford it. The Corvette is relatively affordable to middle income Americans. It is not to hard to save a little and buy one and be in the hobby. It is only recently that a Corvette has sported a real nice interior with the c7. It is a semi-high quality interior instead of the low quality it has put in virtually all other Corvettes. the Corvette constantly gets ripped by reviewers on the cheap seats and interiors and I have to agree. For that, thank God for the c7. I think a blue zr1 c6 is a fantastic car. An absolute gem that really hauls azz. I would love one of those cars and if I had room, which I dont, I would try to acquire one. You are right about the brembo brake kit for that audi but I was out of town so I just had the car picked up by the mechanic and paid for the work. I eventually gave her that car in the divorce that way i got rid of problems in one swoop. by the way, I love your youtube video and the sounds you car makes. It made me call corsa and order and corsa system for my car. It is being installed and I would be happy if it sounded like yours. I dont have gears or the fidanza flywheel but I do have agressive porting with long tube headers, no cats and custom chip so it should sound similar. I drive around with my back window slightly propped open with a corvette gadgetman latch just so I can hear that sound really loud. I also liked your shifter so I went out and bought a hurst shifter with custom shifter ball in black. All your mods are great so keep up the good work.
ed ramos #3028