mike1952

okay....is it Z zero 6 or Z oh 6? There does not seem to be agreement even on GM sites.

Mike

JDogg

zee oh 6

mike1952

up early or out late tonight? I know it is pronounced that way but the RPO code looks like a zero....

Just bored....waiting for my production week (10/3) and your excellent status updates.

take care

Mike

LTC Z06

It's Z zero 6, as in Z 71, Z 28, Z 24, see how it works? But we do pronounce it Z oh 6, unless you are from Canada then it's Zed oh 6

mike1952

Todd, that is what I thought but I wonder why it is pronounced with the letter O? If you look at how it is written in different places, sometimes they use the skinny 0 and other times they use the fatter O, and this is just on GM sites.

I know...who cares...

Mike

GOLD72

Regardless of pronounciation, its Z zero six. Its just easier to say Z Oh six.

GOLD72

vetterlatethannever

Like the way you would pronounce the year model. "I have an '05 Vette", so 'oh five' not 'zero five'. Still a zero though.

self1

zed zero six

RandyVettes

Ci"pher (?), n. [OF. cifre zero, F. Chiffre figure (cf. Sp.cifra, LL. cifra), fr. Ar. ssifrun, ssafrun, empty, cipher, zero, fr. ssafira to be empty. Cf. Zero.]

1. Arith. A character [0] which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold.

More important than the name for zero or its origin are the properties that sets zero apart all other numbers. Zero is often considered the identity of numbers because of the Law of Addition. Similar are its properties with multiplication. Dividing by zero is cause for questionably the most common math question. What may be even worse, is zero in exponential value.

The Law of Addition states that any real number added to zero is itself. Any real number subtracted from zero is the opposite of itself. Because the original number will repeat itself in this way, the laws of addition are very similar to the Identity Property, also called the Reflexive Property of Equality. The Reflexive Property of Equality states that for any real number a, a = a. Using the Transitive Property of Equality, for any real number a, a + 0 = a + 0. This is why zero is often considered the identity of numbers.

By the Laws of Multiplication, any real number multiplied by zero equals zero. Zero is the only real number in which everything multiplied by it equals the same thing. Multiplication is seen as taking a number and putting it into a certain number of groups, for example: if there were three bags with four apples in each, how many apples are in all the bags added together? (12). If there were five bags, with no apples in each one, how many apples are in all the bags added together? If there were no bags, and there were five apples sitting where the bags would be, how many apples are in the bags? The answer to both of these questions is no apples, or zero. So anything multiplied by zero ends up with nothing in those groups, or with an answer of zero.

Division, like multiplication, is also best described by groups. If there were 18 bananas, and you put them into 3 boxes, how many bananas would be in each box? There would be six. If there were no bananas and you put nothing into 3 boxes, how many bananas would be in each box? The answer would be no bananas, so this shows how zero divided by anything equals zero. What if there were 18 bananas; how many bananas would be in each box if there were no boxes? If the boxes were there, could we tell how many bananas would be in them if we don't know the total number of boxes? It is most commonly considered "undefined," because we don't know enough information to say how to divide the bananas up. A better way to look at this problem is by using an example from division's cousin, multiplication. 10/2=5 because 5x2=10, 9/3=3 because 3x3=9, but 4/0=?? Nothing times zero can equal four, because everything times zero equals zero.

If this is true, then isn't 0/0 undefined? But also, any number divided by itself is one. For example, if there were nine ducks and you put them into nine boxes, that's one duck in each box. But if there were no ducks and you didn't put them into any boxes, then there would be nothing that you didn't put into anything. Isn't that just zero? Because there are too many questions about this function also, it too is "undefined."

Zero has caused many fears and confusion, especially during the Middle Ages because it was thought of as almost satanic. Zero is associated with darkness and nothingness and pretty much evil in Western civilization. In Eastern cultures, zero is associated with in-between, balanced, Nirvana, and other blissful things. Zero has more emotion attached to it than any other number. It is a number that hurts your mind when you try to understand its properties. And yet, such a number is necessary to do mathematical calculations with ease. Nothing is necessary to make something. Does zero even exist? In a perfect world there would be an answer to this question.

mike1952

I think I need a nap after that one.....

Mike

BlaznZ06

A little less cowbell please!

RandyVettes

ROFL Sorry I was exploring the space....

MikeG06

OK, it's Z0(zero)6, any one knows from where this name came from ?

speedwaylemans

The first Z06, back in 63...an option pkg, if you got one of these in the garage, got a nice collector Vette!

1Day

Unless you are in USA it is Zed Oh 6, only in US it is Zee oh 6

RandyVettes

Many people, especially the sports car racers, anticipated the 1963 Corvette. The Corvette had been king of its class for years before winning many local and national championships and Zora Duntov, the late chief engineer for the Corvette, wanted something more. He wanted to move the bar higher and he did just that with the introduction of the 1963 Sting Ray in late 1962. He and Larry Shinoda, the man who sketched the first drawings of the ageless body style known as the Mid Years, work tirelessly to develop the car that would set the automobile world on it's heels. Part of the their plan was to develop a race car that could beat the best in the world.

The Special Performance Package, known as RPO Z06 was created to market a turnkey racecar to the public. The Z06 option included unique dual circuit power brakes which included sintered metallic linings, that were larger than the standard metallic linings, vented backing plates, larger finned brake drums, cooling fans in the drums, self adjusters that work going forward instead of the standard when backing. The suspension modifications included heavy-duty rear transverse spring (7 leaves rather than the stock 9 leaves), heavy-duty front springs and specially calibrated shock absorbers all around. A 36 gallon fuel tank that took up most of the area behind the seats and aluminum knock-off wheels were initially required as part of the package but were dropped from the list in January 1963. Besides the Special Performance Package, additional extra cost options were required before the package could be ordered. There was the 360 horsepower fuel injected engine, four speed transmission and a posi-traction rear end. By the time you left the dealer you'd spent nearly seven thousand dollars. The Z06 option at $1,818.14 plus the other required options added $661.75 to the base price of $4,252.

The 1963 Z06 could only be ordered in the Coupe body style, just like today's Z06 but only being able to order the option in the Fixed Roof Coupe. The original Z06 cars were also limited production cars with only 199 being built in five production runs. The first cars were built for established racers such as Mickey Thompson. Six cars were built in October 1962 and sold to the dealers that sponsored Corvette race teams. These cars were picked up at the factory in Saint Louis and driven on the road to California. Within weeks the Z06 Sting Ray had won its first race at Riverside. Those early racers learned about the scary brakes just as I did. The metallic linings, basically metal on metal had to be heated up for them to stop the car. Even then you never knew if the car was going to pull hard left or right depending on which brake warmed up faster. Once the brakes finally did get warmed and you got used to anticipating their behavior you were fine.

Chevrolet had a problem with the aluminum wheels holding air, the tires were tubeless and the wheels were porous. These wheels were never delivered on a customer ordered car until the middle of the 1964 production run. I ordered my car in October 1962 and took delivery in June 1963, the main reason being the wheel problem. I bought my car with the wheels and that is how I wanted it delivered. The Z06 option was only available in 1963 until the reintroduction of the 2001 model. Today it is estimated there are between 80 and 100 1963 Z06 cars remaining and the value of these cars has gone from the purchase price near $6,000 to the six-figure mark.

The 1963 Z06 was an outstanding car from the start. To drive the car on the street was very enjoyable and not many cars in their stock configuration could keep up with 63 Z. From the outside there was no way to tell that the car was a Z06, the badging was the same as the normal fuel injected Corvette. The best Vette yet? Well, ask any Corvette owner and they'll tell you which is the best...theirs.

SWCDuke

zee-zero-six or zee-aught-six as in .30-06

Americans are screwing up the language by substituting "oh" when they mean zero. Yeah, "everybody does it", and everybody (including Dave Hill) is wrong!

Oh and zero are NOT the same thing. Try mixing them up on your computer!

If you know firearms you would laugh your butt off is someone referred to the .30-06 round as "thirty-oh-six" rather than "thirty-aught-six".

If you don't know firearms, this round was introduced in 1906 - thus the suffix "aught six", and it was used in the WWI Springfield to the M1 Garand and is still a popular big game round. Back in the early 20th century, Americans still knew how to speak the English language.

Duke

RandyVettes

At $1,818.45 the Z06 package alone cost nearly half the base price of a split-window coupe, but for die-hard performance enthusiasts, there was no way to put a price tag on a factory showroom-stock race car--especially one sporting the brutish power of America's finest V-8 for the time. The fuel-injected L84 solid-lifter 327 with 11.25:1 compression and 360 horsepower was ordered in over 2,400 "normal" Corvettes in '63, but it was only one of the numerous mandatory options (How's that for an oxymoron?) tied into the Z06 package, along with some special, heavy-duty Z06-specific items. In lieu of the standard, smooth-shifting Borg-Warner T10 four-speed transmission, all Z06s were equipped with a beefier Muncie four-speed. A heavy-duty 1-inch front anti-sway bar replaced the standard 7/8-inch one, and much-stiffer-than-normal springs and shocks were factory installed at all four corners. An extremely stiff seven-leaf rear spring replaced the standard nine-leaf model in the new independent rear suspension, which also featured Posi-traction limited slip as part of RPO Z06.

Perhaps the most unusual component of the Z06 package, however, were the "Competition Brakes." Since four wheel discs would not be available on a Corvette until 1965, the Z06 exhibited the best Duntov could do to make a drum-braked car ready for sports car competition, especially when disc brakes were already prevalent in Europe. Larger and stronger-than-standard Al-Fin power drum brakes with sintered metallic linings maximized the stopping power of the less-than-cutting-edge technology. The heavy-duty finned cast-iron brake drums measured 1 1/2-inches wide with a diameter of 11 13/64-inches (standard drums were 11 inches), creating 334.3 square inches of total sweep compared to 328 square inches for conventional drums. A unique Kelsey-Hays master cylinder and a Morraine power booster controlled these big drums. Special brake self-adjusters worked while rolling forward because race cars spend very little time in reverse. In addition, the Z06s received ventilated front and rear backing plates and a unique 24-blade cooling fan for both front and rear drums. For extra cooling, external air scoops for the front brakes were left in the cars as they left the assembly line, to be installed by the dealers later.

All Z06s were originally slated to receive fiberglass enduro-style, 36.5 gallon fuel tanks, but only 63 ended up with them. Likewise, cast aluminum knock-off wheels were intended to be standard, but also became a victim of "production complexities." Knock-off wheels were available through dealer parts departments. Even though the Z06 package was expensive and ill-suited for street use, the majority of the 199 street-legal race cars produced were ultimately sold for exactly that.

RandyVettes

Cool 1963 Z06 Link

mike1952

now see what I started......at least we're not complaining about our cars being delayed.

Mike