Refinishing the engine - Would it take away NCRS points?

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by taximan1

Well said,

The bottomline is this. No matter what any of us think about NCRS, or "NCRS type" shows, the value of all of your zr1 's in the future will be determined by condition and originality. No other organization in the world sets the standard to knowledgeable Corvette buyers, like the NCRS.

Think about it... in 10, 15, 20 years and beyond, you will have the most limited production, full VIN produced Corvette since the 1953 Corvette. When investors, or plain old buyers for that matter, look for these cars in the future, they are going to look for originality, and condition. They won't care how reliable a particular zr1 was when SCCA raced, or how fast another did the quarter mile with a LPE makeover. They will want originality, and condition. It has been that way for every Corvette since 1953.

This doesn't mean that anyone who cusomizes or races their zr1 is wrong. They are not. Their is no right or wrong answer. If a zr1 gives its owner many years of pleasure by beating it down a 1/4 mile track, then that owner made the right choice. If an original owner is a big time "waxer", then that works for him.

If you don't care what your zr1 is worth down the road, then none of this matters. If you do care, you have to realize that the NCRS is extremely well respected as one of the ultimate sources of value (ie. originality and condition).

The NCRS is not the be all end all of vette knowledge. I can garuntee that there are people on this site that know more about the ZR-1 than what is in the manuals. There are many things that need to be changed out to help the car run better than the way it left the factory. Besides pumping money into the ZR-1, GM did very little to help the ZR-1. Hell you can make a 570 rwhp ZR-1 look stock save the powder coating of the plenum/cam covers. There was so many of these cars that were/may have/ could possibly have been worked over at the factory that no one actually knows what is from the factory and what isn't.