undertaker

looking for a M7 vert. I'm leaning towards ordering a GS and throwing an ECS blower, meth and headers on it, vs jumping into a Z06. Most likely looking to avoid the Z07 package as well, I have no need for carbon rotors and disposable tires. While I've done spring mountain and had a gutted out C5 with a 427 C5R setup for road racing, I don't have the time nor energy to dedicate to a track car, so I'm purely looking for extremely aggressive non-track use.

Yes walking into the dealership a base stingray/GS will bore me, a Z won't do much better, my last blower car was 800 at the wheels, the turbo car before that 700. So I need something to keep it exciting.

I'm just wondering is the GS simply a LT1 vs a LT4 with identical suspension, gearing etc. or is there more to the story under there?

Blvdbrawler

Why order a GS and add all the $$ to it when you can jump into a Z for possibly less $$. Not sure the Z can or would "bore" anybody...Have you driven one yet? If you have a real need for speed, then dont cut corners dude...Get the King of the hill and go from there. That way you have a car already BUILT properly to hand that kind of power and more. Getting to 800 at the wheels in a Z would cost far less then trying to do so with a GS. Just my opinion because you asked. Good luck either way.

CDH76

I can see a few reason why he wouldn't want the z06 over the GS. He may want more power, which a ecs blower and meth will get him. He doesn't want the aero from the z06. It's a track car not a straight line winner over 130 mph.

However at the end of the day I would ask yourself do you plan to keep the car or sell it one day? If the answer is sell it then just get a z06 or ZL1 as you will have more value when you sell it over a s/c vette you will have to probably part out the s/c and alky kit to sell it anyway.

djnice

Isn't there more to the LT4 than the supercharger? I assume the bottom end is built stronger, among other things.

undertaker

From what I've seen in my small amount of research, it seems the tiny little 1700 cfm blower on the Z06 is close to maxed from the factory. As to the Z being more properly built than the GS, thats what I want to know, it seems the same Z07 would be available, although I have no interest in it. But like C6's is the gearing different between a Z51, a GS, a Z06, like it was between a Z51/GS, Z06 and ZR1.

Getting a Z to 800 at the wheels means replacing the blower, unless you want to deal with a heat soaking mess and a one hit wonder. If I"m already in for a blower why waste the extra 10-15k at the dealer on the Z. Headers are equal, meth is equal.

Power not withstanding what makes a Z that much better, than a GS?

Yes a C7Z would probably be fairly exciting, but C6Z's totally put me to sleep, too darn quiet and refined, I never got into the C6's because I prefered the nasty viceral feel of the C5Z's.

The_Gretz

The LT4 is definitely much more robust than the LT1, because GM knows it has to handle much more power output. Here is some info from GM that details some differences:

http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/...owerhouse.html

Hot Rod Mag's deep dive:

http://www.hotrod.com/articles/the-2...e-z06s-lt4-v8/

And finally, Corvette Magazine's comparison of the two engines:

http://www.corvette-mag.com/issues/9...k#.V5zusJMrImp

GOLD72

just like an LS9 is far more than just an LS3 with a blower thrown on top it it!!