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Originally Posted by BigAls87Z28
(Post 442060)
Alright well I guess not everyone can be happy.
It takes exponentially more horsepower to go faster, on top of the fact that it also reequires a lot of aerodynimc work to make sure the car will be stable and able to a high speed.
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When Peter Brock designed and built the wooden buck for the Daytona Cobra coupe, a very well respected areonautics in the field of aircrafts questioned him about the design of his car most notably the roof and Kamm tail, and said that his design would not work for the speed they were looking for out of it, which was to go from 160 to 180mph. The guy predicted the motor would need to have twice the horsepower in order to get to that speed. Peter pushed on and had it built. On February 1st 1964, When they tested it at riverside, they used the same block as in a 289 Cobra, with a few tweaks, not producing the twice as calculated horsepower needed to get it to 180. Within a few laps Ken Miles was clocked at 183mph!!! so Areodynamics play a big part, and in this case with the vette, that should of been addressed as well. I know it has a lip and spoiler and such, but the body should of been redesigned, thats one of the major problems that I have with this car, it looks like a Z06, witha few changes, and has almost a 20% increase in power output, and thats the number it gets. Hey I know probably 99% of the peopel who wil ever own this will never get to that speed, so then Y buy it? At this point and time it becomes braggin numbers for car companies. The new ZR1 does have alot of changes performance wise, like alot more carbon fiber added, the brake setup, ando ther goodies, but it doesnt....idk...it doesnt grab my attention.
You know theres a saying at my work, opinions are like asshol3s, everyones got one, my opinino is this car could of been better, price wise, hey not too shabby, but id take a Z06 over this if I had 100K. The thing with me is im nota die hard Chevy fan, Im an all around car guy from the shops in So Cal, to the Maranello factories, to the busy country of Japan, I have to respect all car companies, but at the same time I have to scrutinize the car, I cannot play favorites cause then I cannot see other cars true value and potential of what makes them great. I could rant and rave about 5 companies right now wbout why they are all highly overrated, but it owuld take too long. Ill let you know Ferrari and Lamborghini are on that list, so even the superclass cars need to look at themselves and realize that they are not the best, and they do have some work to do, but at the same time I applaude them at their technical advances, and the same goes for the ZR1, theres some work that needs to be done with that car, but at the same time, good job GM, you FINALLY made it to the 200mph club.
I feel that this isnt my conversation for me anymore because you guys are Chevy fans, but I think differently then most of you guys. If you were in my shoes and have come across or drove or ridden in some of the cars I have, you'd be singing the same song as me. Ive been to the Pebble Beach concours d' elegance, and feel like im walkign through an art muesem of what a car should be, because the automotive world has lost that many years ago. There are no cars anymore that are handbuilt from start to finish, there are none that are road cars merely because the company wanted to go racing, so they took the racing car, added an interior, detuned it and sold it to the public, gone are company rivalries contested in the way that checkbooks had no end ( Ford vs. Ferrari, it was reported that Ford spent over 200,000,000 in the GT40 program to defeat the Ferrari team) Today we are given hunks plastic and resins, meshed together with a motor strangled by hoses, and sensors, and are no longer set free, for a computer tells it what to do. So to everyone that has read my last few posts in here, I am sorry, I didnt mean to fly off the handle like that, but Im sick of peopel who will flame my opinion, and I know you guys cannot see what I see and know what I know but if you did, even at 22 years of age, I stun many at events for my thirst of historical knowledge of REAL cars, you would understand my opinions and my reasons for why it doesnt excite me nor impress me.
