Sheeeeeeeeet, I'd put those suckers right back there as soon as those fenders were painted and wouldn't care who didn't like it.

I guess its a good thing that I own a real Z06 and am not one of those C6 owners deciding on making a clone, because I most certainly would not stop at the badges.

If I'm going to spend the dough and build an imposter, then I'm going the whole nine yards. I'm not going to let a few more dollars in badges stop me from completing the look.

 

lol who cares what the frame is. are you saying that a worked c6 vert cant outperform a z06? thats a negative. and my whole conversion is going to cost me 12k. but that includes alot of extras such as my rims n tires that are 6200.00 of that. i have a supercharger that came on my car when i purchased it. by the time im done, my car will have around 750 hp have better handling than a z06 and look bettr. why does evryone focus on the negative such as badges? who cares about badges? we know there is no such thing as a z06 convertible. as stated in a earlier post i meant widebody conversion. if i want to put the z06 badges there doesnt mean i think i have a z06 fake. maybe i like the looks. the badge obviously says 505 hp, meanwhile my car has 625hp right now. i am not keeping the z06 badge. it came on the used fender. i might put sidemarkers or a z51 badge. does that mean im a fake because i put z51 badges on my z51 vert?

 

Never said that. A worked Pinto can outperform a Z06. But it still ain't a Z06.

Nope. You're talking to the wrong guy if you are looking for an argument about Z51 badges.

 

you dont need to paint the whole car. if you have a good bodyman, the full car doesnt have to be painted at all. my paintman does ferraris and lambos. he is on the money or he does it over and over till its right. i have no fear of him being off. hes only cahrging me 2k. thats right 2k to do the front bumper fenders hood, and quarters. and they all will match perfectly. some of the prices ive heard about wb conversions is ridiculous. if i didnt spend 6200.00 on rims n tires, it would have cost me total of 3000.00 plus paint and then a set of wheels. i did alot of extra for what im spending including interior and a zr1 front splitter. you just have to be patient and look for used parts.

 

Quick, I'm really disappointed in you. I thought you were better than this.

 

so what makes a z06 that much bettr than a c6?

 

It's cool Fredro. A worked pinto can outperform a Z06, LOL this is true. You should have used the word mustang instead of pinto, that would have been better.

A lot of things, but you have positives about your car that a Z06 doesn't. At least they are both C6s, and yours will look just a mean or meaner than a Z06 when your done.

 

Well, I hate you feel that way, but my position on badges has remained consistent.

I have always stated that if one were doing one of these "conversions", no need to stop at the badges.

As long as one is going to the trouble of making a car look all the world like the model that it is not, how does stopping at badging it acquire the high ground.

Some of the guys in here, take the attitude, "Well, I'll do everything else to make the car look like a Z06, but I will stop at the badges, because thats just not right."

Well, I submit to you, that if one is going to add all of the other features which would outwardly identify the car as a Z06, and has no problem with that, no moral qualms about that, well then why stop at the badges?

Why are the badges sacred, but the rest of the identifying features not?

 

Solution is right here:

Z67 badges in place of Z06.

1YY67 is a vert model number. Z67 might be cool and Austin makes custom stuff.

 

I didn't say that it was better. Just different.

And if one is going to make a car look like the model which is different from it, then why stop at the badges?

 

way to many judgementals and badge police with keyboards.

 

This will be my last post on this subject and in no way am I trying to insult you, so here goes. I don't see this as being a "badge" issue. You are coming across (whether or not it is your intention, I can't really tell) as insinuating your car is far more superior to a "lowly base car" with major performance and/or body modifications. It appears you are somehow threatened by the thought that some or many of these cars may actually be superior to your car in many ways. Whatever your stance is, I still respect yours and others opinions and have no ill feelings. Have good holidays.

Bruce

 

Looking good

 

Didn't say it, didn't think it, didn't imply it.

Threatened? Hardly. I wouldn't trade mine for any C6 made to look like a Z06, I don't care if it had 1000 hp. I have seen a lot of "conversions" on this forum. I wouldn't trade my Z06 for any two of them I have seen on this board. Modded C6s, aren't my bag. Too often, depending upon who did the work and what was done, modded C6s are a "kaboom" just waiting to happen. So "threatend" or envious of a "conversion", um, no.

All I am saying is that some are going to do the rest of the "Z06 conversion" and then leave the badge off and seize the moral high ground because they were big enough to leave off the badge. But did every single thing else to make, or which would make, the car esthetically appear to be a Z06.

Some are going to get on those who do the conversion, but put the badge on, and praise those who did the exact same conversion, but left the badge off. Why?

Seems like a double standard to me because a tremendous effort was put forth in either case to make the car appear as something which it is not.

If one has gone that far, then how does putting letters on it which say "Z06" make it any "worse" than the same exact "conversion" on another car which left those letters off?

Why is doing the "Z06 conversion" and putting the letters on it wrong, but doing the exact same "Z06 conversion" and leaving the letters off, OK?

Both cars look like a Z06 and great effort and expense has been put forth to accomplish that in both cases.

Just something to think about.

Happy holidays to you as well?

 

Great looking car.

I love the WIDEBODY conversion. I personally would leave the z06 badges off to make it more of a sleeper and not hurt the z06 lovers because you are not in their club. lol Great project man. What color are you going with?

 

Quicksilver....are you the same guy that put Z51 badges on your car and then when all the negitive posts started flying about the badges...you sold the car and got a Z06?

 

I'm the same guy who had a Z51 equipped '05 and put Z51 badges on it, and later traded it in on a Z06 same as many in here. Heading into two years of Z06 ownership. But I can assure you that the "negative posts" about Z51 badges had nothing to do with my trading my '05 in.

Indeed, I rather got a kick out of some of the negative posts from some of the folks about the badges. You'll never hear me say anything negative about Z51s, people calling their cars Z51s or Z51 badges.

Its also one of the reasons why I don't understand people who get worked up and fly off the handle about Z06 or Z51 badges on someone else's car and why I have no problem with people putting Z06 badges on a car which is not a Z06, but looks all the world like one.

I'm a firm believer in "you paid for it, so badge it if you want, with whatever you feel like badging it with."

So if its a base car which you have spent money on so that it looks like a Z06, and you want to complete the Z06 look with a Z06 badge, then stick a Z06 badge on it. Stick a Z06 badge on that **** if you want. Or a Z51 badge if you have a narrow body Z51. Whatever badge you want, hell, all it is is a badge. It ain't scripture.

So now whats your point?

 

 

what kind of rims r they?

 

Good point, I just had some Z06 badges overnighted and I'll put them on tomorrow...