The best of street/strip...2001 LPE TT Z06
10-22-2017, 07:16 PM
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Year: 2001
Make: Chevrolet
Model: Corvette
Price: $45000
Mileage: 17000
Private or Dealer Listing: Private Listing
Location (State): MA
Color: Silver
Transmission: Automatic
Drivetrain: Rear Wheel Drive
....and since it was nice out I took it grocery shopping.
- Travis
11-12-2017, 08:36 PM
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The car is now wearing brand new 345 ET Streets out back as well.
Took the car off to the SlowHawk Performance Open House/Dyno day last weekend. After that since I was away I figured might as well take it into Boston for the night to watch the Bruin's game.
Just your average 8 second daily driver putting around the city....
- Travis
Took the car off to the SlowHawk Performance Open House/Dyno day last weekend. After that since I was away I figured might as well take it into Boston for the night to watch the Bruin's game.
Just your average 8 second daily driver putting around the city....
- Travis
12-12-2017, 10:13 PM
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Just so we are all clear, you couldn't reproduce this car for TWICE this price. There's an ungodly amount of money in this one. This is not your buddy's f'boy roll race vette...hahah.
- Travis
12-25-2017, 09:25 AM
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UPDATE
For those that don't know during another magazine's photo shoot the car decided to have the passenger headgasket let go. Luckily I was able to catch it very early and shut things down before any real damage occurred to any of the hard parts. The car was immediately shipped off to SlowHawk Performance for repairs, and I pulled it off the market until everything was back to 100%.
During the complete teardown it was discovered that the several of the cylinder sleeves in the ERL Superdeck block had shifted thus allowing coolant past the head gasket. The motor was then sent out to Precision Racing Technologies for a full rebuild. There it was torn down completely and the block was re-sleeved with new sleeves. Several other ERL machining mistakes were located and corrected at this time too. While everything was apart new rings and bearings were installed. The motor then came back to SlowHawk were it was reassembled with a new BTR custom turbo cam as it had been running a factory ZR1 cam which was clearly holding the car back.
As the car went back together it also received new drive shaft couplers as well as a new meth pump, and a fresh tune from Don.
At this point the car now makes 821whp and 731trq at 19psi on the 93 pump gas street tune and 732whp/671trq at 15psi where it is set currently. (Mustang Dyno/unlocked converter) Basically, with the cam change the car has picked up over 100whp at every boost level as compared to the last cam yet still maintains extremely docile street manors.
It should be noted that the car's previous best/constant 9.29's with the old cam were run on 16psi of boost and in the mid 600's for HP on Don's dyno.
With the power increase the car should easily be in the 8.90s still running pump gas, using the foot brake, and not even on the 19psi setting.
The cost of these repairs/upgrades/labor has been north of $15,000 (receipts to interested parties). I will not be raising the price of the car, as I'm not that type of person. I'll just eat it and be quiet.
At this time the car is now back on the market and the asking price remains at $60,000 for EVERYTHING...car/drag pack/DW trailer ect. ect. ......
The car was one hell of a deal for the money before the all happened.....now, its even sweeter (for you...I get royally F'd)
Below is the latest dyno sheet....
..... sorry for the long quote.
12-25-2017, 07:42 PM
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In my mind the car wasn't 100% and that didn't sit well with me. My reputation in the racing community means a lot to me and I wouldn't want to have anything tarnish that. Plus, I'm really **** when it comes to these things. I like nice things, and the nice things I own I like them to stay nice while they are with me. This is not a project car...so when it passes to the next owner, it should be 100%. The next owner deserves that, but almost more importantly....the car deserves that.
I could have taken any number of short cuts to invest less into the car through its time with me, but like I said....that's not my style. It might not make sense to others, and I'm ok with that. I'm not in this hobby to make money, I'm here because of a passion that was passed to me from my father. Frankly, I've taken a complete bath on every car I've built/owned and this car will be no different.
Such is the price we pay for what we love...
- Travis
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