2002 Chevrolet Corvette C5 Z06 - Images, Specifications and Information

"Why is it people constantly compare stock cars vs modified cars. A hennessey Viper 800TT vs a stock Z06 are you dumb? No kidding the Viper won let's compare a Yuog to a modified Trans-Am WTF man. Also to those how are referring to the Car and Drive Viper-Z06 Challenge read the article again the Viper does beat the Vette in acceleration and top speed, but both cars had pro's and con's and I quote ""The viper's steering demands constant attention and even makes the best drivers look dumb, it will also make you pay for the poor decision of driving on a less the perfect road."" Being a proud Z06 owner I'm happy that my car can hang with an $80K car. I also am looking into a Lingenfelter upgrade for a measly $8400 you can boost the Z06 to 530hp giving it the edge over a stock Viper for a fraction of the cost 0-60 in 3.7 seconds for a car under 60K please show me a comparison for that cost I bet you will have a hard time. Everyone has made valid points in this forum, but you really have to consider cost."

zo6

anotherzo7
10-6-2003

this is the best sports car ever change to 7.0 and ford,tvr,doge,will nerver come close hows a 10.0 at 147 1/4 mile time with no nos or superchager/ mti 10yrs blowing ass of road!! all inports suck

wasabi

Supercharged
24-4-2003

wasabi your absolutly right, i totally agree with you,.....nuff sed!

turbo on a tvr?

wasabi
21-4-2003

"man, that would be sacrilige. tvr's have no electronic aids what so ever with the simple reason being that you don't need it. if you screw up in a tvr it's all your fault. no one to blame but your own ineptitude. now i say turbo is a silly idea cos it screws up the delivery of the engine power. in a car which already has so much power going through the rear wheels pushing not a lot of car, turbo lag would cause accidents. tvrs ""only"" have 350/400 bhp because that's the safe amount in a car that's supposed to be used regularly in wet and dry. can you imagine the turbo kicking in at the wrong moment at a round-about in the rain..."

kudosdude......

Supercharged
26-3-2003

kudodude i totally agree with you,you hav a very valid point in sayin american V8 hav an advantage over us in terms of engine size .....however theres more to tunning cars then jus cubic displacement,there are many ways of squeezing more power out of cars, changing the aspiration, is one of the most popular ways , could u imagine if some one slapped on a turbo to a TVR engine!!!(somebody plz do it!!) Anyway there were two points to my argument one was that i think the yanks are missin out on the TVR experiance and 2ndly i think its unfair to compare tuned cars to stock cars.

Supercharged ---

kudosdude
24-3-2003

TVRs are fantastic, no doubt about it, however, their tuning potential is nowhere near as good as you might think. The reason being is simple. TVR engines are fantastic to begin with. Old american V8's are not (sorry yanks), however, they have cubic displacement on their side, which means tuning them centres around making them more efficient. An efficient large capacity engine will make proportionally more than an efficient small one. Simple physics I'm afraid.

Awesome Vette

Blaze
23-3-2003

this car is awesome for the price.My uncle has one and gave me the chance to drive it.it was so fun, way better than my iroc!(oviously lol)

Your missing out one detail...

Supercharged
22-3-2003

Having, read through most of the comments i think u americans are unfortunate not to have any TVRs being sold in ur shores, if u did then u would know that TVRs are capable of whupping both a stock viper and a Z06!!! You may think im jus sayin that cos im british, however , in last years april edition of EVO magazine , they group tested a Z06, and a Tuscan S,(along with a honda NSX, porsche 911 CS4, and a BMW M coupe thrown in 4 good measure), and the Tuscan S was stated as being the fastest car there. Also a few years ago jeremey clarkson, held a drag race over a whole mile ,with a viper, lotus espirt, aston martin V8 vantage,porsche 911 turbo, caterham JPE and a TVR cerbera, to find which was the fastest car availible for under �100,000, and the cerbera won!!, the porsche came a close 2nd followed by the aston then the lotus , caterham and finally the viper. It could be argued that viper could hav performed better if it had slick tyres , different gear ratios etc but hey it lost so badly i doubt it would hav made a differance, and besides the other cars in the race didnt hav slick tyres either. Oh and before some moron mentions hennessy or lightnefiger (however u bloody spell it!), let me jus say if they tuned a TVR it would fly!!, a stock TVR, be it a cerbera or tuscan is pretty damn fast already, a tuned one would be untouchable! Oh and one more thing TVRs are far better lookin then both the viper and Z06,......hmm no doubt ive probably pissed off a lot of people , with my comments , but hey the truth hurts! lolz :-P

yes BlackSunshine, you are wrong about the L-88

Mikepilot777
21-3-2003

the L-88 was introduced in 1967, but was improved in 68/69. I have read several different articles on this engine type and they gave it a rating of 550+, and even possibly 600hp. The 454 cu in engines introduced in 1970 up to either 72 or 73 were huge, but could not produce the same power as the 427 L-88. Therefore, a 68 or 69 stingray with the L-88 package exceeds the early 70's and is a better car, plus the 4 gills on each side of the car are sexier then the 70-72 sides.

hmmm....funny...

iceman23
17-3-2003

"Funny the Lingenfelter Vette was mentioned, because Car and Driver and all of you should've been at the Kanawha drag strip saturday. We happened to race a Lingenfelter Vette and had our best time ever with an 8.548 run. The vette only ran an 8.9. lol Yeah, ONLY 8.9. haha I think it's extremely ironic you all mentioned that particular car, especially since we've been waiting for that race for a long time. The Vette actually came in 3rd for the night, and I REALLY HATE giving Ford any props, but someone brought in a Mustang that destroyed that Lingenfelter Vette and on that run the Vette had a 9 flat. I myself also being a Vette fan really hated that with a passion, but at least the ""gaytang"" didn't beat our Viper. And actually he doesn't have a ""stock"" ZO6. It too has TT and pushes close to 750hp. He also has an SLP Firehawk that gets a 9.4 run, but that's a diff story. He and his family are Viper enthusiasts. His dad, his sister and him all have one. And the boy has more cash than he knows what to do with so spending $170,000 on his Viper wasn't a big deal. And as I put, the Viper is being ran against cars it was meant to. I think the former fastest car in the world, the McClaren F1 is a formidable opponent. It's in the same class, or was, but my main argument was the fact that people say no Viper could ever toast a Vette and I think we've proven that's not true, because nothing yet out of anything we've raced has touched his car. That is where our argument lies. When you're pushing 833hp and over 900 lb-ft of torque, it's kinda hard to take that car off the block. And it's quite a bit lighter than a stock Viper as well. If anyone has any cars they would like us to race, feel free to contact us. We can find people around the country to bring their cars in. We can be reached on ICQ instantly. Our numbers are 14933464(mine) and 58000161(his). Oh and did you know Lingenfelter also makes a Viper package? Didn't know if anyone knew that or not."

HEHEHEHEH

116 corvett
13-3-2003

yo ice man ( nice name by the way , lol) your friends got a venom 800 tt and a stock z06 right well if he/she/it was gonna spend all that $MONEY$ on the viper but not the vette? Why didnt he take his vette to lingenfelter . The Stage 2 Lingenfelter vette beats the viper and i think my friends at car and driver will agree with me . Also now theres a lingenfelter vette w/ a Twin Turbo LS1 427 CID engine that gives 725 BHP and 650 lbs-ft of torque that could kick the crap out of the viper! also who cares about the f1 f50 and diablos we're talking about the True american sports car here !!! By the way my personal favorite vette is the 67 roadster,

Viper vs.C5????

stu_md
13-3-2003

"ICEMAN, your not really trying to tell us you are comparing a stock C5 Z06 to a Hennessy motorsports Venim 800TT are you? A stock $52,000 Z06 to a totally blown $200,000 Viper? If the Viper couldn't win I you would have been the biggest fool in the world to have bought it. That is similar to racing a Z28 against a 6 cylinder Mustang. Why don't you try running the Viper against a Lingenfelter 427 Corvette Twin-Turbo which it is really designed to race. Then the match becomes a matter of driver expertise instead of just ""I have more money to buy more power than you"". I'm not saying your friends Viper isn't hot (there is no denying that) but you cannot say it's everything whne you aren't racing the vehicles it was designed to run against. No, I don't have a 427 TT for you to run and I never will regardless of how much money I have, I like speed but I also like inteligent investments."

hahaha

iceman23
12-3-2003

As I read the comments on the Viper and ZO6 on this page I have to laugh. For whoever said Dodge and Chevy need to look into DOHC, they haven't paid much attention, because the Dodge Viper Venom 600 is just that. It's the ONLY DOHC Viper that was ever made and one of the top performing Vipers as well. There is no rice burner on this planet with enough power, speed and NOS to toast a Dodge Viper Venom 800 and I will gladly set it up to prove that! We prove it on the strip every week during the summer. The Vette is a great car, but will never top the Viper. A ZO6 can't beat a McClaren F1 or a Ferrari F50, yet a Viper Venom 800 destroys them. The Venom 800 is THE fastest car(street legal) on the planet. 0-60 in 2secs, 0-100 in 5.2secs and an est. top speed over 240mph. I've personally hit approx. 222mph in 5th gear at 5500rpm with a gear to go, so 240 probably isn't near top. I also have to laugh at the diehard Ford fans. A Mustang isn't even in the same class as a Viper or a Vette, so it needs to go back to fighting it's Camaro and Trans Am adversaries. And to whoever said the ZO6 beats the Viper in every category except top speed is SADLY mistaken. The only thing the ZO6 beats the Viper in is braking from 0-100-0 mph. Unlike some posers on this comment page, I do, however, have the distinct pleasure of being able to drive a 2001 Venom 800TT and a 2002 ZO6. My friend owns them both. And we've raced the Viper against everything you can think of, street and drag, and nothing can touch it. Not even a Ducati 998. We've raced each other in the Viper vs. Vette crap and we usually do it around tracks here locally and whoever was driving the Viper always won. I even beat him by 9.783 secs once with the Viper vs his ZO6 on a 5 lap race. It's kinda hard for the 0-60 in 4sec ZO6 to beat a 0-60 in 2secs Viper. Handling don't mean diddly when you take the car by 2 secs off the block, because by the time he reaches the first turn you're already out of it and gone again. Our Venom is 27-0 vs everything from 1100hp Skylines to Diablo roadsters. We offer anyone $1000 if they can beat our car. 0-60 in 2sec - 0-100 in 5.2 - 8.6secs on the strip @ 132mph. And I'll close by saying once again, the ZO6 is an awesome car. It has looks, luxury and everything you could ask for. My friend's ZO6 is a truly beautiful car...all black with it's black and yellow ZO6 rims, black leather interior and custom chrome on the dash and doors. I do love the ZO6 just as much as any fan of it and I don't mean to dis on the car, but it can't beat an equally matched Viper. It just can't do it.

A Great Car

5point0tbird
15-2-2003

The Z06 is one of the greatest cars of all time. I think Chevy should come out with the ZR1 package again with over 500hp to compete with the GT40 and to put a nail in the coffin of the Vette vs. Viper argument.

viper & vetts blow

03 svt
6-2-2003

While your talking money for the performance what about the 03 svt mustang cobra 281 Thats a performance car cheaper than the both of them and it only cost 35,000 a vett Z06 50,000 viper 80,000 so you take the difference and spend it on the cobra and it will kill the both of them in performance so get real on the price to performance ratio b/c it already does a pretty good job keeping up with the both of them and guess what it is dohc.

Mikepilot

BlackSunshine
31-1-2003

Your right about the trani stuff, I'll give ya that. But a Z06 still aint ganna take a Viper, ECSPECIALLY if you have a highly skilled driver behind the wheel. Personally, I'd rather have a '69 with the aluminum block 427, preferably a convertable. It wouldn't do 12 flat (neither would the '68), but it would make the mid to highs. And, I'm probably wrong about this, but wasn't the L-88 the 454 they dropped under the hood in '72? Like I said, I'm probably wrong.

Liar

Mikepilot777
31-1-2003

Whoever it was that said you have viper and a vette is talkin crap, the ZO6 is stick shift manual standard (6 speed), there is no option for automatic on the Z06. There is the automatic option on the coupe and convertible, but they do have less horses and the viper would beat them, but NOT the Z06. Anyways, i still think a 1968 stingray corvette with a 427 cu inch L-88 engine is one of the best corvettes ever, i read it does 12 seconds flat on the 1/4, and its sexy, you just don't see those kinda curves on any new cars today. CORVETTE RULES!!!

wake up america

FPV_GTHO
2-1-2003

i think its about time chev and dodge realised the advantage of multivalve and dohc technology. both the rt/10 and zo6 have pushrod valve actuation. chev even wants to keep pushrods in the gen4. ur complaining about people saying the japs are heaps more powerful than the american cars and u know why? japs have dohc and multivalve dont they. neither of the zo6 or rt/10 will stand up to the ford gt when its released. it will look a heap better than the both and go better too! and whats the go with american interior quality? here in australia, the aftermarket right hand drive conversions of the first generation viper actually increase the quality of the dash!

viper ......PLEASE

DOHC
6-12-2002

This new viper is one ugly car (dodge sucks). The vette is the king of American muscle. The Z06 is a beautiful machine and for around $50.000 this makes this car even better (if thats possible)$80,000 for a dodge!!...please

HEY!

laderek
4-12-2002

Kid your crazy if you think the viper is better than the corvertte. The viper is a sissy compared to what you can do with a corvette. The viper barely beats some of the corvettes. And m,ost kinds of corvettes will smoke the viper. This car is better. Just think if someone gave you $79,000 to spend on a car, you could by the dodge viper with no money left, and you could by this corvette for about $50,000 and have $30,000 left to soop it up to one badd ass monster that could smoke the hell out of any viper. Besides Cheverlet is a way better manufactor than Dodge. The viper is shit compared to the vette. And in my opinion the vette is a hell of alot finer that the new sissy design of vipers. Now that is the Line.

my love

vivalog
30-8-2002

you cannot find better than this car in the world thanks god

Corvette

GT3
25-8-2002

The corvette is a symbol of american pride. When I saw a corvette I thought that the viper was faster but the corvette beat the viper by 3 - 5 sec's on any track. The viper is cool but the corvette is faster on the track but the Viper is faster on the drag strip. The corvette Z06 can beat a Porsche 911 Carrea and Acura NSX on the track and people say that ameracian cars slow and Japanise cars faster but the NSX cost twice as much for and you get TWICE LESS.

VIPER ONLY

WOW
9-8-2002

I have both cars the viper RT10 and the corvette Z06, i like all the fastest cars, both are wonderful but the different that the viper car you can feel it more cause its stick shift(manual)so its more faster, but the corvette car is more safe.

dodge or chevy

AHigherPower666
8-7-2002

what are you talking about the new viper is faster, more powerful, has better exaleration,bigger engine and lookes better. the only thing that the corvett has that is better is that its lighter, cost less and better handling.END OF LINE VIPER IS BETTER THAN Z06!

Chevy Kicks Dodge's butt yet again

proxcel
6-7-2002

read the comparision between the viper, and the z06 in car & driver if you did you would kno that the z06 kills the viper in every comparision from handling to acceleration , except top speed (but i heard nasty rumors of the vipers engine not bein able to handle the temp. at top speed) so, try again dodge the most competition to the z06 is ford with the gt 40 , now thats a race!!!

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