1999 1LE Z28, 14K , still has new car smell
07-05-2007, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by blm_stl
I have a 98 1LE with 15K miles but I have lots of mods. ............. Special bushing, power steering cooler, special shocks and you get one really good autocross car.
The power steering cooler unfortunately is next to worthless. My first track day in my 98 1LE was in Oct of 98 at Vegas 98. I made it 5 hot laps before the PS reservoir got so hot if melted the plastic pulley which came off in Turn 7 of LVMS and bounded down the track about a 1/2 mile! Limped home to SF, Ca with a shorter belt on and no PS and added an auxiliary oil cooler plumbed into the PS reservoir and nary a problem since. These days you can add a Turn One pump which has a metal pulley and you should be OK with the stock cooler and synthetic PS fluid.
For a twisty/autox/or track day lover this is the cats meow. For a cruiser you would hold out for a ttop flexiflyer FBod. I have owned a 93 driver, a 93 CMC race car, a 94 1LE (no AC and it was black!) and a 98 1LE. I still have 2 of them and have never had a Ttop car. I simply can't understand why anyone would want to own a car where you could jack up one wheel and watch the car bend like a pretzel. I suffered through a 94 Z07 Corvette Coupe that was so limp that it couldn't close the drivers side door after a day of autoxing. Sold that car in 97 to buy a Z06 which as a coupe is much stiffer.
Someone buy this car and have some fun.
Perry
07-05-2007, 12:40 PM
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Originally Posted by ZeroFear
bump for today. anyone know some other forums this might sell on?
I bought my 99 1le back in 04 w/ 13k miles for 13k so I'm partial to them. Good luck!
