PatriotZ

You saying that 34K with a lot of track isn't stout?

PeterM

My sentiments, exactly!

Mopar Jimmy

Excellent post and write up Counselor, about an excellent high performance super car, that is by far the best bang for buck ($) value out there in the super car market, and a DARN reliable one at that!

redZ06bri

Great post ! To guys like me with "young 6K vettes", this is music to my ears. I haven't beaten too much on her yet, in part, because of all the negative posts about exhaust valves, oil problems, etc, etc. Good to hear the other side and keep em coming.

k w f z06

I been happy with mine the only problem two rocker arm , and one after market coil MSD bad , been to the track on the mounthly base seice 2007 , lot of mile on the track , lot a brake pad and 3 set of Hoosier , the car run good , the paint not so good lot a chip , but you cant blame GM for the paint when you track your car every mounth .........

tim414

Ranger...do you use 3M type material over the vunerable areas of your 'Z? (refering to the area in (front) of rear wheels around the brake vents and front area to help prevent rock chipping and pitting? One of the names is "Cleartastic" clear protection film I think.....Tim

Ranger

No Tim, I just keep ample coats of Finish First polish on the vulnerable areas. The paint still looks great at five years.

Had a couple club members use the 3M stuff, professionally applied. They were happy with it.

Ranger

GreekPT

Lordy man, at what point (on or off the juice) do you find traction? I have similar mods/HP as you and have had NOS on some Z28's but traction is already a joke in 1st (rolling) or 2nd (1/2-3/4 throttle) so another 100 plus instant ponies sounds as ludicrous as it does addicting...

johnnywoz

Saw this post and said "what the f*#k", so I got my 45 and shot my vette a few times, it still fires right up!!

Now I wish I had not done that as I have this annoying whistling noise at speed, off to the dealer for service. Guess mines not "bullet proof"

vettenut5

Lawdogg

There's one in every crowd.

RUBYREDVET

Temp is 29 today, some sun, dry roads. Gonna take the Z out today for a spin. Keeping my fingers crossed that today is not the day that the motor takes a dump.

Silver05GTO

2006 Z06, 34k miles, just regular fluid changes.

LEJ ZO6

I have 40,000 miles on my 2008.

It's been back to the dealer twice.

1st time I got a check engine light. Turned out to be a blown skip shift resister (I added from the after market).

2nd time I got a check engine light. Turned out to be a bad RH cat.

No other issues.

It's a GREAT car !

royski

try to make things better and end worst sometimes .you got to try,and go for the gusto

bowtiguy

same here. the farther I got away from stock the more problems I had...relined blocks, radiator, dry sump pans, custom made pistons...

I'm closer to stock and have been trouble free for quite a while now.

If done enough of this for a life time.

Dirty Howie

My 08 will be 3 years old in April and I have 68,000 miles on it. It goes to the track every month. It starts right up every morning when I drive it to work on the original battery. I still enjoy every minute I drive it wether on the track or daily driving. Not one mechanical issue !!!!


DH

duffy'sblackc6

71K mi on a modded 09...508rwhp..26+ mpg highway fuel economy@ 80-90mph.

My car is a DD and has been more dependable, besides being much less costly than previous foreign "exotics"...a Ferrari 430 with paddle shift and a 911 turbo with "Tiptronic'

Of course, given the number of Z's sold since 2006, statistically a few will have serious mechanical issues...and of course we read about'em here on the Forum.

Glad to see a thread reflecting the overwhelming majority view!!

Take care all,

Regards

Duffy

Kyle Lemish

I have had 6 of them as daily drivers from Nov of 2005 up until I started driving ZR1's and I have not had a bit of problem out of any of them. Many,many passes at the strip and a little road course here and there and still never an issue! They are well built cars and its funny how people hear of 1 in every couple thousand having an issue and then they say its a bad car. I would tend to belive that of the ones saying something happend to theirs I would venture to say that most of it is self induced......I saw one have a problem at summit point (Major driver error) He was downshifting and went to 1st instead of 3rd and boom......then back in the pits he was telling people that it must have had the common problem of dropping a valve

Lawdogg

It is nice to hear from owners WITHOUT problems for a change. While it is only natural to post about problems, it is nice to remind others that these cars are pretty stout.