C6 ... roof or no roof?
10-03-2007, 11:00 AM
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Melting Slicks
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C6 ... roof or no roof?
I suspect I know the logical answer but it just struck me I wasn't sure.
I am tracking my new C6 for the first time next week and I just always assumed I would track with the roof off as I did in my TA. Then I wondered if that would be wise. The TA was a T-Top versus a targa top and the "T" provided some integrity that would be missing in the vette design.
Maybe I just answered my own question but what do you think?
TIA
Paul
I am tracking my new C6 for the first time next week and I just always assumed I would track with the roof off as I did in my TA. Then I wondered if that would be wise. The TA was a T-Top versus a targa top and the "T" provided some integrity that would be missing in the vette design.
Maybe I just answered my own question but what do you think?
TIA
Paul
10-03-2007, 12:44 PM
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What would be nice is to get a conversion for the C6Z roof. From what I've heard/seen, it's the same as the targa top but bolt-in instead of latches (and magnesium, of course). If we could get a bolt-in AL roof...
10-03-2007, 12:57 PM
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Safety Car
10-03-2007, 04:03 PM
#6
Melting Slicks
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Thanks guys. I think I knew the answer but I wanted to hear it from others too. Plus, I'm just getting anxious so I just wanted to talk about it 
I may be wrong but I think he's suggesting that with this option one could convert a Targa Top Coupe to a FRC like the C5's. An option I think GM should have never dropped.
I may be wrong but I think he's suggesting that with this option one could convert a Targa Top Coupe to a FRC like the C5's. An option I think GM should have never dropped.
10-03-2007, 05:05 PM
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Besides the added safety factor, the noise in the cockpit at +100MPH with the top off is earsplitting.
..not sure how much the helmet would help that but --- IMHO, leave it on.
..not sure how much the helmet would help that but --- IMHO, leave it on.
10-03-2007, 06:06 PM
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Melting Slicks
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Again, I ran my 500 rwhp TA with headers, cutout open, gutted cats and the roof open. Nothing like it! Of course it had a 6-point cage for safety and flex control but man did it have the sound of a race car 
Actually I even ran my camcoder and the sound was not over whelming at all.
10-03-2007, 08:51 PM
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That's what I meant and thought was easily understood. Never thought I'd get my head ripped off for suggesting a C6 FRC 
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10-03-2007, 10:05 PM
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you should feel the wind and 160+ with the windows down and roof off w/o a helmet on the autobahn. It's actually painful after a few minutes.
