"drive the hell out of it"

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by rhipsher

Anybody on here that personally knows me knows that I've pushed mine to the absolute limit to where it had no more to give many times and didn't wreck it, Loose control of it or have a tire blow out at the speeds I've had mine up to in the past. I got all of that out of my system years ago and just cruise in it once in a while and admire looking at it in my garage nowadays.
Kevin just do your own top end porting. All it will cost you is your time. A few carbide die grinder bits and some sand paper. No divorce needed. And it will be much more exciting to drive than a stock ZR-1.

I don't even like eating a sandwich I made myself because it always has blood and bits of my fingers in it...

[yzpilot]

I just look at mine in the garage! I have only put 5 miles on it since I have owned it! But....as soon as the ECM gets here this week....I am down to run with Kevin anytime!! Drive it til the wheels fall off!!

[JThomas]

My car is all stock except for a program from Marc Haibeck, that makes the fans come on earlier and eliminated the 1-4 shift. I pretty much drive mine casually but every now and then I like to remind myself what it was designed for and I have autocrossed it once. The car is too small for me to get serious/comfortable to drive too aggressive, so I save that for my Z06, in a controlled setting, of course.

[Racinfan83]

Mine is all stock except for the Haibeck chip as well. No intentions of changing it unless something happens to the cat converters in which case I will do headers and exhaust. I have all the stuff to switch the seats out to 95 Sport seats - waiting for a nice day to do that. (I don't really consider that a "mod" though) And I romp on it about every time I drive it - just not a lot of places around here to do that with all the cops.... Most I've ever been able to get out of it was a short run on a service road and I had to let off at 107 in 3rd..

[Paul Workman]

With regard to 7000 rpm, it was Dave McLellan that said (in effect) running the LT5 to 7000 rpm is no problem, "And, the motor will thank you for it!"

One does need to get the secondaries open and then cruise with them open on the highway whenever you can. Otherwise the intake valves get really gummed up and coated with carbon. (Marc spoke of this at Bowling Green a couple years back. Keeping the throttle above 5%(?) after opening them will do it.)

[Blue Flame Restorations]

I run my Turq car through the gears eat least once every time I drive it. The car is just too much fun and brutally loud not to.

The Purple car just gets driven around the 1.3 mile block of my neighborhood every two weeks or so. It's so smooth and quiet that you barely notice it's not an LT1 car. Feels like a Cadillac. LOL

[GOLDCYLON]

Originally Posted by PhillipsLT5

Exercise what secondaries, removed and happy

Ditto

[Bob Eyres]

Here's one more vote for "Driving the Hell out of it". I've been doing that for nearly twenty years now.
I can't imagine any other rational reason to own a ZR-1.
You don't have to go really fast, just to the red line in the first four gears.

[5ABI VT]

I baby mine when its clean. After 5 minutes of driving I kniw theres dust all over it and it will get a wash before it goes out next time.. Its all over from then on lol ! In the few months I've owned my z Ive rolled vs about 15 cars on the freeway and tried to top her out twice and 150 mph say about 190 times

[DaveK]

I tend to drive mine fairly sensibly most of the time. There are too many idiots on the road to do otherwise, not to mention the cops around here are not very tolerant (and we have two lots of them - OPP and RCMP. I choose my moments carefully

That said, I've had the Z on the track and thrashed it with relish - would do it a lot more if I lived closer to a track

Dave