This thread has kind of gone to hell in hand basket. Didn't mean to start a big FRC vs. Z06 war or anything.

Still haven't bought a car another deal fell through was going to pick up a 04' Torch Red Z06 from IL but once again even though I was the first to respond offered cash and was willing to pick it up and pay for it in under 3 days it was sold from under me to a local buyer. Rather frustrating. Tuesday morning we set on a price and I was going to fly up thursday, tuesday night someone local looks at it and he sells it to him.

The search continues...

Yeah, sometimes these threads start acting like a teenage child; doesn't matter what your intent is or the logic behind its actions, it does what it wants to do. :rofl:

All I can tell you about your purchase is to have patience. It took me about 6 months to find mine, and you're in a target rich environment. It is frustrating, though.

Good luck with your search, and have a good one,
Mike

And what makes you think the Z06 that wants to race has to stay stock?

That's the whole point of this thread, what's the difference between the Z06 and FRC if you are going to mod them anyway.

Did bowling green make that supercharged coupe? Nope. You keep saying this modded and that modded. Who cares. The discussion WAS about a FRC vs. a Z06. STOCK! And STOCK, there is simply no comparing the two cars. Any car can be modified to beat another car, so what. The intent of this thread was to show the differences between the two cars. I had a LPE twin turbo C5 vert, but I did not mention that it was faster than a C5 Z06 because it would not have answered the question that was asked. Please, can we stay on topic.

^^^:iagree: I have owned and driven both too. As I said before, the Z06 is like an FRC on steroids. More power and more handling. A stock for stock comparison will leave the FRC eating the Z06's dust.:yesnod:

That being said, a lot of people like to work on their cars and modify them. When you buy a car you need to take into consideration how you plan to use it and what you intend to do to it. If you have big plans for your car, like some of us, it can make a lot more $en$e to buy the FRC because they can be purchased for a lower price.

I believe that was the only message that the FRC supporters on this thread were trying to make. There are too many people on this forum who like to share their inflated opinions of their cars by putting other people and their cars down.:sadangel:

The take home message is to not let other peoples' prejudicial views unduly influence you.

And with that I hope this thread is closed.

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I have a very nice millenium yellow Z06, that you can get and if you make a deal with me I won't sell it out from under you.

Look here

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show....php?t=1639803

Nice car but pretty far out of my budget.

You were going to buy and 04 Z06, what was he charging you ?

I can't believe that it is higher priced than mine, unless something was terribly wrong with it.

Anyway, good luck in search, hope you find a nice pampered Z06 to call your own.

Tony

He was desperate to get rid of it because he already had another custom hot rod he wanted to pick up. My budget is more in the 01-02 Z06 30-45k miles range. I don't want to lowball you I've been watching values and your car looks real clean if you wanted a quick sale you could price it around 29-29.5, 31-32.5k if you could hold out for a few weeks to find a buyer and that probably woulden't be to hard. Either way both those numbers are out of my budget and you should be able to get that much for it.

I sent you a PM.

I tested both before I bought my 2007 Z. The ZO6 beats out any other type vette out there as a stock car.

That's true, but take the $25K difference and put it in mods and you got a Z killer.

I don't know that I'd go as far as to say that you'd be spending Z06 money to get to Z06 perfomance level... I bought my FRC for a minimum of $4k less than a comparbly used Z06, and I have put just a tad more than that into my heads/cam/headers/intake/etc, and I'm going to be well above a stock 355whp Z06 in terms of power (I'd better be; I'm in the final stages of putting it back together). I'm not trying to talk smack, or anything, just saying that you can make a 450 whp FRC for about what you'd spend on a Z06 (I'm aiming for 415-420 with a medium sized cam). You are right, though, that my FRC will be worth a FRC price, and I'll be either de-modding, or losing my shirt when I sell, but I plan to keep this baby for a long time. :)

It sounds like the thread-starter isn't looking to hit mid 400's, though. I would think with all the bolt-ons, he'd be within a couple of horses to an '01 Z06 for about $2,300 with headers, an intake manifold, CAI and a dyno tune.

Thats exactly what I need and I just love when some Z06 pull next to me and hardly give me a look until that here my little old red FRC. Than all they want me to do is pull over and see what I have done to it.:D

The only thing I'll add is that the 02 Z06's have the advanced Active Handling stock, and you mentioned that either a FRC or a Z06 would be above your limits.

AH is probably worth the difference if you take into account how quick these cars can get away from you, and what a crash would cost.

I agree 100%!

When I bought my FRC, I didn't care whether it had active handling or not, and it just so happened to have it. Now that I have driven the car for a while, I am soooooo glad it has it. Even in stock trim, this bad boy can get squirrely on you, and with another 100 horses, it's only going to get worse. If I were in the market again, active handling would be on the "must have" list along with an M6...

If you are going to do some high HP mods to your car than AH is worthless as it was never programmed into the car for that use. AH is good in bad weather if you happen to use your vette as a daily driver, but if you are going to mod to 600 HP I don't think it is worth it.

I have driven cars with and without AH. I find the one's without AH to be less jerky when I get on it.