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gmonsen · 04-25-2017

Eventually, various cognoscenti will see its value. It remains a remarkable outlier among all Corvettes. I described it earlier in facetious terms as a bastard, but in many ways it is a bastard child of the un-American pairing of Chevrolet and Lotus. The Corvette motor had always been a push rod and not some fancy, expensive, sophisticated European dual overhead cam motor. I wouldn't doubt that the LT4 pushing out 300 hp and roughly equaling the performance of a 1990 ZR1 was the result of Chevy engineers saying we can push the boundaries of the push rod even further and don't need no European technology. It's "un-American". It's expensive. Eventually, all this is going to enhance the desirability of the ZR1 imho.

04-25-2017	#9
gmonsen Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 64	Re: Value of ZR-1 Eventually, various cognoscenti will see its value. It remains a remarkable outlier among all Corvettes. I described it earlier in facetious terms as a bastard, but in many ways it is a bastard child of the un-American pairing of Chevrolet and Lotus. The Corvette motor had always been a push rod and not some fancy, expensive, sophisticated European dual overhead cam motor. I wouldn't doubt that the LT4 pushing out 300 hp and roughly equaling the performance of a 1990 ZR1 was the result of Chevy engineers saying we can push the boundaries of the push rod even further and don't need no European technology. It's "un-American". It's expensive. Eventually, all this is going to enhance the desirability of the ZR1 imho.