New ZR1 build

[threestar40]

http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1612773635

Great video on the build.


Rick

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[djpatrick35]

Cool vid.

[LGAFF]

Start the countdown:

15yrs 3months and 4 days until I buy my 09 ZR-1

By then it might be in my price range



LGAFF
92 ZR-1
#234

[tomtom72]

Originally Posted by LGAFF

Start the countdown:

15yrs 3months and 4 days until I buy my 09 ZR-1

By then it might be in my price range



LGAFF
92 ZR-1
#234

I agree with ya! I wonder if I'll be able to get in and out of a vette when I'm 71!!!

[Paul Workman]

Yeah...Put me on the list!! I hope I don't have to wait as long for my ZR1 as I did my ZR-1!! (I wonder if Marc H and Jeffvette, at al will still be the gurus of everything "Z"

Butchaknow...It is still just a hopped up Gen III motor; not that it is a bad thing, necessarily. Just not very unique (motor wise).

p.

[tomtom72]

I agree with you Paul, about the motor....but I didn't want to say anything because it always sounds like sour grapes....at least to me when I hear myself saying that....LS3 w/blower + some other goodies...what's the big deal?.......I always think to myself.....

"Tom, just be quiet!"

[threestar40]

I recently had a mechanical engineer and a hard core ford guy tell me that the ls motor is the most bad *** v8 on the planet even with the fact that it is pushrod and 2 valve...he sounded sincere. I thought it was a pretty nice compliment. No, it's no LT5...but really whats the difference as long as makes the power and stays together, who cares?

I was thinking about these last two posts and the only things I could come up with are that it may not be as pretty...which is very debatable with that blower and it isn't an OHC4V motor...it may not sound as sick as an LT5...I don't know.

I know GM put a lot of thought into keeping the pushrod design when they had the chance to really change the small block when the LS motor was in the thinktank stages...I mean a lot of very smart people decided to keep the design Vs. going the OHC route...That's a testiment to history, heritage, technology, chevy v8 culture, etc.

I wish I could afford one, I would get it in a heartbeat, it's bound to be bad to the bone.

Rick

[tomtom72]

Rick, that's why I put the " it sounds like sour grapes" in my post.......heck at the price of any new vette....I can't even afford to pay attention!

I guess I should have said "envy"....because I do envy the newer stuff...C5 & up....those are some fine examples of home grown know how...ya gotta admire the end result from keeping it simple & staright forward!

I just have one fairly valid "but"........there is nothing like the sound of an LT5 in 2nd gear going thru a series of esses up around 6k rpms.......it sounds like an F1 motor and is glass smooth.....to me anyway

But you are absolutely right....there isn't much that compares to the LSx gen motors.....kudos to the engineers!

It's all good anyway!

Tom

[Cenobyte]

Originally Posted by tomtom72

I guess I should have said "envy"....because I do envy the newer stuff...C5 & up....those are some fine examples of home grown know how...ya gotta admire the end result from keeping it simple & staright forward!

I have the luck to drive both a '93 ZR-1 and a '00 Coupe over here in the Netherlands and although I must say the C5 drives much more relaxed and more comfortably, my Flowmastered Z sounds a lot better than my "Borla'ed" C5 and it kicks more *** too