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924RACR
Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 8794 Location: Royal Oak, MI, USA
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Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 9:12 pm Post subject: OT - The Day Job - it's finally here... |
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Yes, mid-engine Corvette invading even your 924 forum... years of abuse - I mean development - and we can finally bring this beast into the light...
I'm actually barely visible this time around, briefly, hanging out behind the speaker (Mike Petrucci) in a race suit in the first crowd scene (mostly just a disembodied face floating)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeMfPDURncw
Amusing counterpoint to the other car I just tuned with the engine behind the driver...
https://www.instagram.com/p/BzqX3bqhBN2/ _________________ Vaughan Scott
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Cedric
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2600 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Sat Jul 20, 2019 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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Must be really nice to finally see ut being released. As far as i know its been on the way since before the big crisis. To bad its auto only, but there are other corvettes for people like me
For me it's nice to see engines i worked on make consumption records in different magazine tests, but its way less sexy than red sports cars _________________ 1980 924 Turbo
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morghen
Joined: 21 Jan 2005 Posts: 8868 Location: Romania
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TJC
Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Posts: 828 Location: Central-ish Arizona, USA
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Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2019 12:35 am Post subject: |
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Very cool!
I've seen entry price at $60K...true? _________________ '95 BMW 318i/5 ..."Pearl"
'87 Porsche 944 NA... "Liebchen"
'02 Porsche Boxster..."Sunbeam"
'04 BMW X3..."Xander"
Still on the Prowl!
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Fasteddie313
Joined: 29 Sep 2013 Posts: 2596 Location: MI
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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TJC wrote: |
I've seen entry price at $60K...true? |
That's not bad at all, and they are all drysump as standard?
Why did they go back to basically a LT1 (LT2 seems barely different) engine rather than one of the LS engines?
I have looked at this car a bit and it seems to be one of very few new cars that I would actually want and is somewhat realistically attainable..
I have been looking at the newer Alfas too..
0-60 in under 3? But only a double clutch box?
Wonder what will fit from all the older vettes..
that car is pretty sick for only 60k.. Wonder what it comes with for that price..
Think this will make the last gen of vettes price crash?
I can just imagine twin turbos under that glass engine panel.. I bet their is room..
How awesome would it be to get one of these things ASAP to develop a twin turbo kit for to sell..
495 NA might be an easy 1200 if the bottom end isn't stupid..
One of these days I want to build something that is ... relevant .. and will make real numbers...
Sorry 931 but nobody really cares and your never going to make big numbers
Maybe an LS 951..
This chevy does seem amazing though.. They seem to be in the right direction with their later model vettes and now this one looks like it just might flip the lid on the rear engined competition with that relatively low starting price especially if it is going to be Chevy V8 reliable..
Amazing car, might be groundbreaking at this price point, and in the videos I saw that they made it right hand drive as well, so it looks like thay are targeting sales all over the world.. When I saw that I thought that it being front engined would make it a lot easier to make the driving arrangement ambidextrous because their isn't anything in the way..
Maybe a lot of you euro cats will get to play with some American muscle..
i'll tell you as an American that these Chevy V8 engines will really get it, but most of them are all wasted on tractors (trucks)..
Even running like crap becuase of electronic faults, the engines last forever..
Tons of them driving around mounted in rust buckets running like crap for years because they don't fix them when the tune screws up..
Looks real good.. _________________ 80 Turbo - Slightly Modified |
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924RACR
Joined: 29 Jul 2001 Posts: 8794 Location: Royal Oak, MI, USA
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, my understanding is they start under $60k USD.
"LT" is a name. The CURRENT LT is derived from the "OLD" LS, not the old "LT" - to my knowledge. I'm not a Powertrain guy. But it's a mistake to think that LS was thrown in the trash. These are just labels.
No other trans from the previous cars would fit, that I can tell. The packaging is probably just too different. Though if it had a manual, that'd be one helluva donor package for kit cars etc! LOL _________________ Vaughan Scott
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Cedric
Joined: 27 Aug 2004 Posts: 2600 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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Fasteddie, its maybe not known everywhere, but sweden is the American vintage car center of the world. We have 100s thousands of them, and thousands are imported every year from the us. If you ever wondered where all your old cars went they are over here
Corvettes are plentiful aswell, c5s are getting really affordable, i might try one to see how it feels. _________________ 1980 924 Turbo
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Johann
Joined: 07 Aug 2016 Posts: 240 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Mon Jul 22, 2019 11:49 pm Post subject: |
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This new 'vette looks really good! Unfortunately after the Dutch government is done adding taxes and emmisions charges it will be well over 100k Euro |
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Carrera RSR
Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 2309 Location: Somerset, UK
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Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 4:13 am Post subject: |
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Johann wrote: | This new 'vette looks really good! Unfortunately after the Dutch government is done adding taxes and emmisions charges it will be well over 100k Euro |
Will be same in UK. Especially as it will be sucking in enough gas per mile to power a third world county for a month.
My mate ordered the Ford Mustang Bullit edition. They removed all the must have options and then charged a big premium compared to the US. Cancelled his order pronto. _________________ 1980 931 - forged pistons, Piper cam, K27/26 3257 6.10 hybrid turbo, 951 FMIC, custom intake, Mittelmotor dizzy & cam pulley, H&S exhaust, GAZ Gold, Fuch'ed, Quaife
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jazz guy
Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 434 Location: Colorado
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Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2019 2:57 am Post subject: |
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Carrera RSR wrote: | Especially as it will be sucking in enough gas per mile to power a third world county for a month. |
Yeah it's a shame the Corvette has always consumed so much more fuel, compared to its' fuel-sipping counterparts from the UK & Europe... _________________ '81/'81/'82 |
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Paul
Joined: 02 Nov 2002 Posts: 9491 Location: Southeast Wisconsin
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Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2019 12:49 am Post subject: |
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Chart from link above:
_________________ White 87 924S "Ghost"
Silver 98 986 3.6l 320 HP "Frank N Stein"
White 01 986 "Christine"
Polar Silver 02 996TT. "Turbo"
Owned and repaired 924s since 1977
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