I'm seriously thinking of selling my kidneys, liver, lungs, etc on the black market to go towards a down payment on Z06.

 

^^^ im right behind you

 

Actually, I recall that Dave Hill asserted that the a Z51 equipped C6 will provide 75% of the performance of a C5 Z06.
S.

 

Well the latest news on the C6 Z06 is that supposedly they're not going to make their 500 hp goal, but they're going to make up for it with more weight savings in the body and suspension, the only thing I remember is that they're going to use a magnesium k-member? Yeah so anyway I guess estimates right now should be 2800 lbs, 450+ hp

 

2800lbs.?!?
Never happen.
Team Corvette isn't going to pare 250lbs. off the C5 Z06.
I'd figure maybe an additional 50-75lbs.
S.

 

The C6 was already tested according to my dad's subscription to a corvette magazine (Corvette monthly?). I read it and it stated that they ran a 12.5@ 115mph.

 

the article i have says itll offer z06 performance in a base level C6.



theres no reason not to believe 11 sec. ETs with this car in stock form under the right conditions.



75% is about what a base C5 offers.

 

you know this for a fact?



latest info is C6 z06 is getting an alloy frame.

 

And you know for a fact it'll weigh 2800lbs.? Current Z06 is 3118lbs., coupe is ~3270 and the C6 is only a few pounds lighter than the C5 coupe. I'm sure they'll magically shave an additional 470lbs. off the C6 coupe, when previously the delta was only ~150lbs..
Are you naive enough to think it's going to weigh 35lbs. less than a 4-cylinder S2000?
Is this the alloy "frame" to which you refer?
But you're probably right. In fact it might even weigh less than 2800lbs.. Maybe 2600...or even 2500lbs.
S.

 

From the August 9th issue of Autoweek, page 20:

The Z51 package, though, is the ticket for the track. Hill says the C6 with the Z51 package will get you "three-forths of the way to Z06 performance levels."

As far as the C6 Z06 weight goes... I think they could make it if they priced it at 80K, but they won't price it there, and it won't make the weight. My guess is a few dozen pounds lighter than the current Z06. The carbon fiber hood on an 04 Z06 is about 15lbs lighter than the standard hood. If they extend its use to more of the front end, there's your weight loss right there, and all in the front where it does the most good.

 

Why are they not going to make their 500 horsepowe goal?

 

i never said 2800 did i?i just think theyll get it lighter than a c5 z06.


well have to see wont we?

 

"/cough...cough...uhh...I didn't say it would weigh 2800lbs., I just said you don't know it won't weigh 2800lbs., it might weigh more than 2800lbs., but less than the C5 Z06 which is more than 2800lbs., but you don't know it won't weigh 2800lbs. and I never said it would weigh 2800lbs.."

I don't know for sure that the sun is going to come up tomorrow, but it likely will. And the same notion applies to a 2800lb. C6 Z06, it's highly unlikely to happen. But of course, I don't know that for fact...
S.

 

a simple no wouldve been fine.



current C6 is almost 100 lbs lighter than a C5.C6 vert is lighter than a C5.



im assuming all C6s have some type of removavble roof.nothing has been mentioned of an FRC being offered.


with all that an easy 250 lbs will have to be removed to get this car into the 2800lbish weight.


not impossible but not likely.



the sun will come up tomorrow.

 

Some Z06's are a little stronger than others. My 2002 with nothing more than a lid ran a best of 11.84 with a 1.76 sec. 60' on stock F1s. You see 06s running in this range to mid 12's depending on the track and driver.

That last part is the biggest though. I went from a 12.46 on my first trip out with the lid to the 11.84 many passes later. Driver MOD.

-Mindgame