GTO or Corvette?
Thread Starter
11 Second Club
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
GTO or Corvette? Ok here's the deal. I have a 2005 GTO with a Magnacharger. Great car, I like it a lot, but I'm thinking about getting a C5 Corvette. It just seems like the best American sports car for the money. I've been told good and bad about going to the Corvette from the GTO. I'm looking for Pro's and Con's on selling my GTO and buying a Corvette. One big thing I'm concerned about is power. The GTO with the Magnacharger makes over 500hp at the crank. After selling the GTO I would be willing to get a loan on a C5 for up to $20k. I would also have $3k on top of that to spend on it to make it faster. I would want the vette to be as fast or faster than the GTO. Also, if I can get the vette for less than 20, then I would be able to put more $$ into it to make it faster. Besides just speed, let me know the good and bad about selling a GTO and getting a C5 vette. Thanks
Mike
Mike
Ok here's the deal. I have a 2005 GTO with a Magnacharger. Great car, I like it a lot, but I'm thinking about getting a C5 Corvette. It just seems like the best American sports car for the money. I've been told good and bad about going to the Corvette from the GTO. I'm looking for Pro's and Con's on selling my GTO and buying a Corvette. One big thing I'm concerned about is power. The GTO with the Magnacharger makes over 500hp at the crank. After selling the GTO I would be willing to get a loan on a C5 for up to $20k. I would also have $3k on top of that to spend on it to make it faster. I would want the vette to be as fast or faster than the GTO. Also, if I can get the vette for less than 20, then I would be able to put more $$ into it to make it faster. Besides just speed, let me know the good and bad about selling a GTO and getting a C5 vette. Thanks
Mike
Mike
i LOVE the GTO, but i've also never driven one (sat in one at rolex24 a few years ago)
If you can use the maggie on the c5, i'd say go for it, everything i've read has said they are totally different cars.
TECH Enthusiast
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 504
Likes: 0
From: Michigan
For me its the inshurance in the end you will be forking out alot more for a Vett thats why I have a camaro its Called a Cupe in MI because it has 4 seats. Other than that Go for it but your going to have to spend just as much and more to make the vett go faster because everything is expensive for vett's.
May get more responses in another section. But my opinion, for what it's worth, is that the GTO has a nicer interior than the C5. Other than that, I love just about everything about the Vette. The Vette will also hold resale better than the Goat. Speed wise, the Vette has a good advantage from the start being a lot lighter. So probably wouldn't take as much to make as fast or faster. 450-475 crank hp would probably get the job done and be had with many heads and cam packages. I'm sure others will chime in on this. I've been contemplating a C5 myself. Good luck!
bolt ons are more expensive for a Vette, but aside from that it's all the same parts put together a little different. Vettes are awesome..I didn't think so until I drove one, then I bought one.
Not a whole lot of things are more expensive for the Vette. Think about it. Headers/exhaust, CAI, and maybe some chassis/suspension parts. But a FAST 90/90, injectors, heads, cam, pulley, and Nitrous are all pretty much the same price anyways. It's the insurance and if you get into a fender bender (body work) is what kills ya. I dont know if the LS2 Mangacharger will be compatible with an LS1. But I think you should go for it. Get a Vette.
Trending Topics
I say go for it. the vette is fun as hell to drive since it feels so small. The handling is just badass compared to my trans am. Don't know how a gto drives but the vette to me feels like a big gokart
LS1 Tech Stories
The Best V8 Stories One Small Block at Time
6 Common C5 Corvette Failures and What's Involved In Repairing Them
Pouria Savadkouei
Retro Modern Bandit Pontiac Trans AM Comes With Burt Reynolds' Autograph
Verdad Gallardo
Top 10 Greatest Cadillac V Series Performance Models Ever, Ranked
Pouria Savadkouei
Top 10 Most Powerful Chevy Trucks Ever Made!
Hennessey's New Supercharged Silverado ZR2 Has 700 HP
Verdad Gallardo
Coachbuilt N2A Anteros Is an LS2-Powered C6 Corvette In Italian Clothes
Verdad Gallardo
Awesome K5 Blazer Restomod Comes With C7 Corvette Power
Verdad Gallardo
10 Camaros You Should Never Buy
10 LS Engine Myths That Refuse to Die
Verdad Gallardo Thread Starter
11 Second Club
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
For me its the inshurance in the end you will be forking out alot more for a Vett thats why I have a camaro its Called a Cupe in MI because it has 4 seats. Other than that Go for it but your going to have to spend just as much and more to make the vett go faster because everything is expensive for vett's.
Thread Starter
11 Second Club
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
Thread Starter
11 Second Club
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
Thread Starter
11 Second Club
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
What about rattles? I've heard people say that C5's start to get "rattly" with age? One thing I like about the GTO is the interior is very nice and nothing rattles.
i say go with the vette. you could always sell all the parts on the goat and then use that money to put into the vette. and youll always have that "he drives a corvette" and you cant really do that with a goat or trans am or camaro. but yeah i say go for it
I spray on track, but all motor its low to mid 11s in a TA when I'm hooking and 4.30s.
lol Thread Starter
11 Second Club
Joined: Mar 2008
Posts: 185
Likes: 0
