First Corvette ZR1 in Europe + shakedown

[f6fhellcat13]

A corvette is a type of warship IIRC. I was being sarcatic

[Roentgen]

Originally Posted by baddabang

Gtr sucks!!!

Let me guess, you're either drunk when you said that, or you're insanely rich, therefore consider the GTR as too cheap.

[DFH]

holly crap i didn't expect the corvette to be this fast amazing it is but i'd still have the Viper SRT10 because that car will kill you

[clutch-monkey]

i bet they don't make it RHD. fail.


hellooo GTR..

[henk4]

In the USA all ZR1s will come together with a special driver training. Haven't heard about that for the deliveries to Europe (maybe not required).
Interesting comment in the latest issue of Motor Trend. Any change to engine control chip to run more boost will result in serious overheating problems, which would require a larger cooling circuit plus a hood protruding intercooler.....

[monaroCountry]

Originally Posted by henk4

In the USA all ZR1s will come together with a special driver training. Haven't heard about that for the deliveries to Europe (maybe not required).
Interesting comment in the latest issue of Motor Trend. Any change to engine control chip to run more boost will result in serious overheating problems, which would require a larger cooling circuit plus a hood protruding intercooler.....

European buyers have their driver training at Paul Ricard circuit in France.

Like most cars designed to run FI there is a very good margin of error, running more boost would be OK. Like everything else if you want to go over the top (IMO 800hp and above) then of course you should toughen up other components. The performance market would have already looked at cooling issues and would have solved it. The LS9 is similar to other SC LSx engines and this type of setup is already a well trodden path.

[henk4]

Originally Posted by monaroCountry

Like most cars designed to run FI there is a very good margin of error, running more boost would be OK. Like everything else if you want to go over the top (IMO 800hp and above) then of course you should toughen up other components. The performance market would have already looked at cooling issues and would have solved it. The LS9 is similar to other SC LSx engines and this type of setup is already a well trodden path.

The comments by ZR1 team in Motor Trend are not in line with what you are saying. For the time being I have more trust in them than in you. Well trodden for the first supercharged engine????

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by henk4

In the USA all ZR1s will come together with a special driver training. Haven't heard about that for the deliveries to Europe (maybe not required).

Unlike us they are not used to go above 55mph...

[henk4]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

Unlike us they are not used to go above 55mph...

the great state of Washington allows 70 mph.....

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by henk4

the great state of Washington allows 70 mph.....

That may be a scarily fast speed for them...

[henk4]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

That may be a scarily fast speed for them...

my Town and Country felt quite at ease.....

[Ferrer]

Originally Posted by henk4

my Town and Country felt quite at ease.....

I wonder how it'd cope with European speeds and motorways though.

Let's say italian ones...

[Matra et Alpine]

Originally Posted by kingofthering

Or a viable write-in candidate for the 2008 election.

I thought it had.
After Barak's line about "lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig"

[ScionDriver]

That is a monster of a car.

[cmcpokey]

Originally Posted by Matra et Alpine

I thought it had.
After Barak's line about "lipstick on a pig, it's still a pig"

not to bring politics up, but that is a really old phrase, the media even pulled out a clip of john mccain saying it. anyone that follows US politics has heard that phrase before.