[Z06] why I hate driving mustangs...
Pro
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From: Shelton, Connecticut
Originally Posted by 5W0P3
I'm 25, but i look closer to 19-21ish, i read the lips of a girl in the car next to me the other day.... "how did you get that!?" lol. I just smiled 
Le Mans Master
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From: Bergen County NJ
Originally Posted by SVT F15O
I own an Auto repair business so my car gets run on a Repair plate. I am walking to my car and some girl in the car next to me says something along the lines of "Looks like the boss let him take out his car." I ask her what she said, she says "Get in the boss' car and leave. I told her I am the boss and got in my car. She was screaming some crap but I just left. People are funny. -Mat-
Safety Car
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From: Ashland, OH
Originally Posted by Ryan L
That sounds about right. Vette owners are getting younger and younger every day and is no longer just for the 'gray haired midlife crisis' type. Soon, the days of stock automatic Corvette vert's with gaudy chrome tail light add-ons and owners wearing those ugly Corvette hats/sweaters/polos/tshirts every where they go will be over. I feel like most older owners are out of touch and have Corvettes just for the image. Take a trip to your local test and tune and you'll find most of the real car performance enthusiasts are young people like myself and don't consider our cars just a trophy. You can turn up your nose in your weak automatic vert, but I'll downshift my 500hp Z06 and drive it like it's supposed to be driven. 
Melting Slicks
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From: Jax Florida
Originally Posted by Cjunkie
man you arent kidding on the clothes i went to a vette gathering in the summer and i thought i was either at a country club or a morgue....i swear this one older couple couldnt open and shut the door on their C6 and as for the clothes i seen more disgusting fat wives wear that Cold Water Creek crap than i cared to see make me proud to be with my wife wearing big hoop earings, low cut shirts showing cleavage from her breast implants and her big hair.
Melting Slicks
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From: louisville ky
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Originally Posted by Blue Blood
This is my only complaint about my Z. I changed out the H pipe to an X which helped some. With the H pipe it sounds like a boat exhaust burbling in the water.
5th Gear
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Mustangs sound better by far. I have a 1965 mustang GT 289 with flowmaster dual exhaust and it's sounds sweet.
Not quite a pushrod mustang sound, but thenew modulars have an almost exotic rasp to them with the right exhaust system.
Check this thread out on 03/04 "Terminator" Cobra's exhausts.
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...d.php?t=316340
Not quite a pushrod mustang sound, but thenew modulars have an almost exotic rasp to them with the right exhaust system.
Check this thread out on 03/04 "Terminator" Cobra's exhausts.
http://www.svtperformance.com/forums...d.php?t=316340
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From: Honolulu Hawaii
Still don't understand the Vette/Mustang rivalry... As long as it’s civil I don't care, both are fine cars. A very good friend of mine has a heavily modified Cobra (his old Police car... Normal for Hawaii Leo’s), I’ve always been impressed by it. Like so many others have said, it sounds great, it’s fast & handles well (full auto-x setup).
As far as my Z’s somewhat “quite” sound signature??? I love it. It’s nice NOT waking up neighbors when I leave the house at 5 am and still have a car capable of a 170+ mph
If I really need a good sound fix I’ll head over to the trim-pad or EOR… Nothing, no Mustang Cobra, Z06, Renault RE26, etc, beats the sound of a F100-PW-220 at max power
Just having some fun, Ahui hou!
Mark
As far as my Z’s somewhat “quite” sound signature??? I love it. It’s nice NOT waking up neighbors when I leave the house at 5 am and still have a car capable of a 170+ mph
If I really need a good sound fix I’ll head over to the trim-pad or EOR… Nothing, no Mustang Cobra, Z06, Renault RE26, etc, beats the sound of a F100-PW-220 at max power
Just having some fun, Ahui hou!
Mark
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From: Ashland, OH
my 03 Cobra with a Magnaflow Off-Road X-Pipe and 2 Chambered Flowmasters sounded great, nice burble at idle great formula one type of sound past 6k Rpms not quite the muscle some of my 5.0's had with an off-road h-pipe and 2 chamber flowmasters dumped at the axle (AWESOME for a street car). My C5z has a NICE factory exhaust nice burble at idle nice sound in the upper RPMS....my C6 sounds like a candy-assed girl car lol maybe why its an 05 with 290 miles and my C5Z is an 04 with 11k???
Drifting
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From: Behind the Orange Curtain, So Cal
I'll never drive one again!
Rented one in N.C. Almost cost me my life!!! Two or three times!! The brakes on that sucker definately did not compare to my Z06....(brakes, what brakes???) 
Race Director
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From: Color my life with the chaos of trouble.
I'll chime in on about every topic in this thread! :-) I've pretty much always been the lone Chevy guy in a group of Mustang driving friends. The only one I owned was a bone stock '67 with a 289 so I can't really speak from an owner's perspective, but I have certainly been around them. The sound of the 5.0 stangs is definately unmistakable, but I would have to say I much prefer the sound of my stock exhaust 02 Z at WOT. (low RPM is a different story).
For the record I am a 25 year old with a Z06 and I get a "daddy's car" comment about once a day. Definately pi$$es me off.
I am a huge fan of "The Corvette Wave." It always amazes passengers who aren't accustomed to it. I have never had another Vette rev at me, but I have had a ton of Mustang/Camaros rev and even more rice rockets feel the need to show off their god awful fart can exhaust. I usually don't even acknowlege the ricers if they are by themselves, but I do like to wink at the girls in the passenger seat. That usually gets them pretty fired up!
I also seemed to have WAY WAY more mustangs and Camaros rev at me in my previous car, a 2004 GTO. I really don't know why. That was the slowest 400h.p. car ever created!
For the record I am a 25 year old with a Z06 and I get a "daddy's car" comment about once a day. Definately pi$$es me off.
I am a huge fan of "The Corvette Wave." It always amazes passengers who aren't accustomed to it. I have never had another Vette rev at me, but I have had a ton of Mustang/Camaros rev and even more rice rockets feel the need to show off their god awful fart can exhaust. I usually don't even acknowlege the ricers if they are by themselves, but I do like to wink at the girls in the passenger seat. That usually gets them pretty fired up!
I also seemed to have WAY WAY more mustangs and Camaros rev at me in my previous car, a 2004 GTO. I really don't know why. That was the slowest 400h.p. car ever created!
Race Director
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From: Color my life with the chaos of trouble.
True... the Goat sounded incredible with the stock exhaust at any RPM or throttle. I had an 04, so it was LS1 with duals, both coming out of the left side. I absolutely loved the interior and the sound of that car.
