C5 Z06 convertible
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Yea its something I wouldn't do myself. I actually think he has a thread in here somewhere on how he did it. But its been a long time. He said he got it with a salvage title so he didn't feel bad cutting it up.
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As I posted on the other related thread, this car has a rebuild title from 2006, five years old. So at some point it was totaled. To compare that to a current situation, think about how bad you'd have to hurt a 2011 Z06 to total it. That's about $40K to $50K worth of damage in today's dollars. IMHO, I'll pass on a car hurt that bad.
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Not a bad conversion from the pics - too bad it was on a salvage title car. Perhaps that guy was just way ahead of his time in making a Z06 vert.
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As I posted on the other related thread, this car has a rebuild title from 2006, five years old. So at some point it was totaled. To compare that to a current situation, think about how bad you'd have to hurt a 2011 Z06 to total it. That's about $40K to $50K worth of damage in today's dollars. IMHO, I'll pass on a car hurt that bad.
Plus why wold you pend $15K on a salvage titled C5?
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One could take a vert and clone it into a Z06 but it would still be a clone. Having a Z06 with a ragtop makes it pretty exclusive. Might not be the bees knees for all but variety is the spice of life.
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Frame on the C5 (and presumably C6/C7) is identical between vert and various flavors of coupe: they designed it stiff enough for a convertible and then added the top(s). If the top was a stressed member, none of the removable 'targa' tops would have lasted this long.
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I have always read that there is no additional bracing in the C5 convertibles. Has anyone heard of any additional bracing? If so--where is it located?
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The factory should have offered convertible C5 Z06s! Or at least offered the Z06 engine in the standard C5 convertible and coupe!
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There is an additional brace behind the seats on the vert. Coupes don't have it because of the open cargo area.
Z06/FRC have the frame features of both the Coupe and Vert.
That's why they are 12% torsionally stiffer. If he cut off the bar across the roof, theoretically it should still be as stiff as a vert.
But I think putting Z06 wheels, springs, shocks, and sway bars on a vert along with a few bolt ons to get up to LS6 hp/tq levels makes better sense than hacking up a Z06.
But I suppose it doesn't matter if this Z06 was already totaled.