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Old 12-08-2005, 02:45 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by gobs3z
Well if you gut a car, put slicks on it, stiffer suspension, and better brakes, what the heck do you think is going to happen. The engine and drivetrain are basically stock and everything done to this car, even down to the carbon fiber parts would cost under $15k, where as a Challenge would be in the $50k range in parts if not more. THe Z06 gt3 is much closer to it's road going car compared to a Challenge and the 360.
And your point is?
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Old 12-08-2005, 03:37 PM   #17
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Whoa! 325s in front? With that waight and those tires, you can bet that thing can corner like something wicked.
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Old 12-08-2005, 04:22 PM   #18
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
Originally Posted by gobs3z
Well if you gut a car, put slicks on it, stiffer suspension, and better brakes, what the heck do you think is going to happen. The engine and drivetrain are basically stock and everything done to this car, even down to the carbon fiber parts would cost under $15k, where as a Challenge would be in the $50k range in parts if not more. THe Z06 gt3 is much closer to it's road going car compared to a Challenge and the 360.
And your point is?
That this car is much closer to stock than the Challenge is to the 360. The Z06 is based off the C6R while the Challenge is based of the 360 road car. So in reality your just putting the Z06 back to it's original state while your taking a 360 and making it into something it wasn't originally, but the 360 still does a good job at it at a much higher price and the Challenge has a lot less relation to it's road. This isn't too difficult to grasp.
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Old 12-08-2005, 04:28 PM   #19
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Originally Posted by gobs3z
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Well if you gut a car, put slicks on it, stiffer suspension, and better brakes, what the heck do you think is going to happen. The engine and drivetrain are basically stock and everything done to this car, even down to the carbon fiber parts would cost under $15k, where as a Challenge would be in the $50k range in parts if not more. THe Z06 gt3 is much closer to it's road going car compared to a Challenge and the 360.
And your point is?
That this car is much closer to stock than the Challenge is to the 360. The Z06 is based off the C6R while the Challenge is based of the 360 road car. So in reality your just putting the Z06 back to it's original state while your taking a 360 and making it into something it wasn't originally, but the 360 still does a good job at it at a much higher price and the Challenge has a lot less relation to it's road. This isn't too difficult to grasp.
Okay so?

The fact remains that its not road legal lol. Sure you can make it road legal, just like you can turn a 360C into a road legal car.

You try to make it sounds as if its just a Z06, well it isnt. It will take the same to make a 360C road legal, and it will take the same amount of work to make that Gallardo and GT3 road legal as it would with this GT3 Vette.
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Old 12-08-2005, 04:52 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by SFDMALEX
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Originally Posted by gobs3z
Well if you gut a car, put slicks on it, stiffer suspension, and better brakes, what the heck do you think is going to happen. The engine and drivetrain are basically stock and everything done to this car, even down to the carbon fiber parts would cost under $15k, where as a Challenge would be in the $50k range in parts if not more. THe Z06 gt3 is much closer to it's road going car compared to a Challenge and the 360.
And your point is?
That this car is much closer to stock than the Challenge is to the 360. The Z06 is based off the C6R while the Challenge is based of the 360 road car. So in reality your just putting the Z06 back to it's original state while your taking a 360 and making it into something it wasn't originally, but the 360 still does a good job at it at a much higher price and the Challenge has a lot less relation to it's road. This isn't too difficult to grasp.
Okay so?

The fact remains that its not road legal lol. Sure you can make it road legal, just like you can turn a 360C into a road legal car.

You try to make it sounds as if its just a Z06, well it isnt. It will take the same to make a 360C road legal, and it will take the same amount of work to make that Gallardo and GT3 road legal as it would with this GT3 Vette.
I really don't understand your comparison to the 360c, all i'm pointing out is this is a Z06 to it's basics and it wouldn't be hard to make it road legal, there shouldn't be an argument to this. This isn't a C6R it's a Z06 GT3, it has to have a huge relation to it's road car. What can you possibly argue about with that statement?
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Old 12-08-2005, 05:08 PM   #21
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Okay so?

The fact remains that its not road legal lol. Sure you can make it road legal, just like you can turn a 360C into a road legal car.

You try to make it sounds as if its just a Z06, well it isnt. It will take the same to make a 360C road legal, and it will take the same amount of work to make that Gallardo and GT3 road legal as it would with this GT3 Vette.
well, you cant turn any 360 Challenge into a street legal car... a large portion of them have no title; and therefor, can never be driven on the street. i wonder if the same is true of these Z06 R's ?
the 360 modenas that were converted to challenge spec, can be converted back again... and a 360 challenge with a title can be converted to a road going car...
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Old 12-09-2005, 06:06 PM   #22
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Make the same thing to a regular Z06- just add wing, front splitter and rims. And then you have a streetable package as well. This car is just like the 1995 and 2000 Cobra R models, ready for homologation into a racing series. Could we see these at next years LeMans?
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Old 12-21-2005, 02:29 PM   #23
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Now if only they would make a GT2 version.
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