I never said people didn't like the Z06, where did you get that from? [/u]
I got that from your own post where you stated you'd never met a person who didn't drool over your omnipotant car (ok, so I summarized your words a bit.
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Blkout
You can disagree all you want about not having any competition but stock for stock, there is no street car under $100,000 except the Viper and that includes your Cobra. While I will admit that the 2003-2004 Cobra is a fairly close match at the drag strip, its still slower and on a road course its not even close so please don't even try to go there. I compete plenty with the car at the drag strip and have many friends that run DE's with their Z06's, I know very well what this car's capable of and if you knew as much as you seem to think you do, we would not be having this discussion.
Thanks for giving me permission to disagree, I appreciate it. Actually, all you said was "...the viper is the only competition for this car under $100,000". That's not true. Competition is defined in many different ways, a road course only being ONE of them. While I've never claimed the Vette didn't do very well on a road course, I find the performance of the vette on the street to be a different story. The roads, where the vast majority of these cars spend 99.9% of their time, are not built well enough to allow the vette to run at it's best. It's handling advantage is seriously handicapped. On the street, the vette is certainly not the undisputed king as you would make it out to be. If the road course was th eonly place I could shine, I wouldn't be tooting my own horn too loudly.
Hehe...especially when you consider how many corvette guys actually race to begin with. Most of them are worried about if their chrome license plate is shiny enough, or where they can buy hand towels with the word "Corvette!" written on it.
You love to point out the price differences in your vette compared to other vehicles at $100,000 or less. Well, that same theory holds true for my ride....except it's a full 12-15 thousand LESS then the vette even. I'd say that's a pretty good bang for the buck. Especially when my entire list of mods (445rwhp/470tq) cost me less than a single set of headers for your car (I've spent $800 total)
and can put you in the mirror on the street anyday.
Blkout
Of course I said its not common, but it has happened and more than once. No one said it was easy, I said the car was capable.
No, you said low 12 sec passes were "...VERY common...", and that "...high 11's on stock tires with a stock car is a bit less common". A bit less common than VERY common? Hardly. I think that's quite an exagerration
All in all, I wouldn't be having this conversation at all if you didn't come off so pompus. As I stated on my origional post, I'm not one of the guys who doesn't like the Vette. I have three friends with ZO6's, two of whom only recently sold their ZO6's (and are on your ZO6.com forum). All are modded. One had bolton's, one had the magnasun supercharger on it, and the other has a 383 stroked nitrous motor. I know what these cars can do. But I also know what they CAN'T do. A bit of humility would probably go a long way towards you living in reality with the rest of us.
