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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 10:29 PM
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Grabbing some breakfast with my buddy we are going down Westheimer, we are in his Z28, open Borla, no cat, we pass what we think is a regular clean red C4 Vette on Zr1s, give it some gas, he doesnt do much. As he passes us in traffic we see the car is a real ZR1 Vette, rare site indeed. So we pass him again, then get to some open road, the ZR1 gave us the most wicked wide open throttle fly by ever, needless to say it sounded ******* awesome. Made that morning for me, car was clean as hell too. Just cool to see, its not a car I would ever want to own, but I admire greatly because growing up, face it, that was the baddest Vette made. Just a cool car, glad to see some people still rip on theirs.
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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 10:47 PM
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I was looking into buying one of those, I bet that was awesome to see and hear
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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 11:24 PM
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Was it even better than the Purple C4 at the shop Neil ? HAHA you are off the chain
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Old Mar 23, 2006 | 11:37 PM
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They sound really good.

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Was it even better than the Purple C4 at the shop Neil ? HAHA you are off the chain
That was a cool car, when I went to get my header botls and gaskets they had a really clean admiral blue C4 in the back of the shop. Still though, rather have a black FRC C5
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 11:21 AM
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That guy in the ZR1 works around the corner from me! Sweet *** car and a rarity indeed.
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 11:28 AM
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I can beat that. Riding in LS1tech member SlowTA's car the other day, we raced a Grandsport going in divergent directions. Length-wise it was pretty even; but the faster we went, the farther we were grew apart. It was amazing.
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 01:21 PM
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Must have been the race of a life time Alex
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I can beat that. Riding in LS1tech member SlowTA's car the other day, we raced a Grandsport going in divergent directions. Length-wise it was pretty even; but the faster we went, the farther we were grew apart. It was amazing.
A grand sport is not a ZR1! A grand sport is an LT4 while the ZR1 is an LT5 and if you barely beat the grandsport you cannot beat the ZR1
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Originally Posted by ZL1SS
A grand sport is not a ZR1! A grand sport is an LT4 while the ZR1 is an LT5 and if you barely beat the grandsport you cannot beat the ZR1

LT5
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 02:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Bizzzatch350
Grabbing some breakfast with my buddy we are going down Westheimer, we are in his Z28, open Borla, no cat, we pass what we think is a regular clean red C4 Vette on Zr1s, give it some gas, he doesnt do much. As he passes us in traffic we see the car is a real ZR1 Vette, rare site indeed. So we pass him again, then get to some open road, the ZR1 gave us the most wicked wide open throttle fly by ever, needless to say it sounded ******* awesome. Made that morning for me, car was clean as hell too. Just cool to see, its not a car I would ever want to own, but I admire greatly because growing up, face it, that was the baddest Vette made. Just a cool car, glad to see some people still rip on theirs.
Sounds like a cool rare site! Nice to see one on the roads still, and like you said nice to see them still beat on it.


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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 02:44 PM
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Originally Posted by steveo346
LT5
its a 32 valve motor only available in the ZR-1
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 02:48 PM
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i got the phone call, while slowta was racing... brilliant



very bad *** site to see :o
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by ZL1SS
A grand sport is not a ZR1! A grand sport is an LT4 while the ZR1 is an LT5 and if you barely beat the grandsport you cannot beat the ZR1
I know what a Grandsport is and I couldnt care less about who wins any race in any car.
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 04:50 PM
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I love those lt5 C4 ,My VETT buddy in pearland just sold his . 150,000 on it needed a little work but all was there went for 16,000 Hell sticker price for motor was 20,000 +... I wanted one, see N how much wider the body is and better looking the wider rocker panels make it look ..................

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Originally Posted by bitchncamaro
I love those lt5 C4 My VETT buddy in pearland just sold he's . 150,000 on it needed a little work but all was there went for 16,000 Hell sticker price for motor was 20,000 +... I wanted one see N how much wider the body is and better looking rocker panels made it look ..................
WTF did you just say (try)? lol


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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 05:29 PM
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[QUOTE=CRAGER]WTF did you just say (try)? lol


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LOL what craig said!
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Old Mar 24, 2006 | 06:28 PM
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I was Just sayN i love the way c4 vetts with the LT5 is wider then your basic c4 and the door jams are deeper then the reguler c4 wich makes it a wide body ... SRRY its friday and a few after work and type in this on a dam PSP LOL small screen........
Can anyone tell what the diffrence is in the 84 vett and the vett with an lt5


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Old Mar 25, 2006 | 01:41 PM
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I had a really good picture of a dark purple one from Japan on my lap top, try and find it later.
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