[Cammer-6]

nice
loose the steering wheel and its all good

[Scarebird]

Nice. I like how the front seats have the wear patina but no rips - color is great, back when cars had a dozen different colors.

[Shiny]

Excellent! That's a beautiful color interior without looking cheap. I hope it grows on you.

Nice car!

[72projectbird]

Originally Posted by performerrpm

the z was velocity yellow, it was a beast, cam, t trim sc, arh headers n x pipe, borla atak. even with the charge tube disconnected it did 50mph burnouts with ease.

alot of stuff is discontinued on those cars. electrical parts etc. melling quit making the ls7 dry sump oil pumps so used ones average 3 to 500 bucks, the aftermarket is 1500-2k . this car had none of those issues and i wanted rid of it while it didnt.

my c5 has some tough to find parts as well but atleast the ls6 can be fixed or rebuilt pretty easy. the la7 though tough to beat, it aint cheap to repair.

The C5-C7 Vettes are brutes when you start modifying them. I recently sold my C7 and I miss it. I've been eyeing C6Zs lately.

The new Poncho is sweet tho! Sometimes a change is needed, and every now and then we're gifted an easy sale/trade that makes sense.

[performerrpm]

Originally Posted by 72projectbird

The C5-C7 Vettes are brutes when you start modifying them. I recently sold my C7 and I miss it. I've been eyeing C6Zs lately.

The new Poncho is sweet tho! Sometimes a change is needed, and every now and then we're gifted an easy sale/trade that makes sense.

if a person was gonna ls swap a pontiac...and i just couldnt do it...i tried...traded my 6.0 for a bare 428 lol...but the ls427 is just hard to match

[Skidmark]

Really like the stacked head lights and smooth rear quarters. I think I'm falling in love.

[onetirefire]

I dig the color combo. But I'm partial -- looks the same as mine.
67 Mariner Turqoise over Turquoise interior.
A head turner, IMO.

[performerrpm]

Originally Posted by onetirefire

I dig the color combo. But I'm partial -- looks the same as mine.
67 Mariner Turqoise over Turquoise interior.
A head turner, IMO.

its growing on my, after driving it around good part of the day it seemed i didnt care about the color at all.

i do like the exterior color for sure

[jhein]

Originally Posted by 67drake

I like it!
Funny how the colors I used to dread as a teen seem nostalgic to me now, like green and even burnt orange metallic.

That's definitely true for me about colors. Things I would never have considered at the time now look really cool to me. A lot depends on certain car and color combos too.

[jhein]

Originally Posted by performerrpm

i bought a 08 supercharged z06 i was working on, it still needed a couple thousand put in it but it did run and drive. then this car came along. i had offers on the roller for enough to buy a nice pontiac. for some reason this one kept on eating at me. surprisling ive not missed that z06 a minute and come home and open the shop up to check this thing out daily. the green interior is a bit much but oh well

As far as the finances are concerned, sometimes it's not about that. It's about what you want.

Separately, about the color, I like it.

[performerrpm]

i thought this had an old holley looking at the dual feed line...come to find out it has a new 600 qft vac secondary carb. once i started looking, i seen the cable was not in the right spot only giving less than half throttle. also modulator valve was connected to metered vacuum, advance was connected to full vacuum. runs considerably better now. its peppy taking off, but itll cruise 80-90 barely in the gas...no tach.

[SRGN]

I don't really think it was a bad trade. I'm at the point where I'm sick of seeing an LS or LT platform engine in everything, I was in it 25 years ago during the"tuner wars" stuff, now I look forward to not seeing an LS in anything. If you ever need any C5/C6 stuff, I still have a lot of parts. I have an LS7 block with a cracked sleeve (LS7 is the only LS block with replaceable sleeves) and a 5.7 LS1 that I need to reassemble. If I feel the need to do anything new-ish I'll swap a GN engine into something. I still have a pair of 89 TTA heads laying around....

[performerrpm]

Originally Posted by SRGN

I don't really think it was a bad trade. I'm at the point where I'm sick of seeing an LS or LT platform engine in everything, I was in it 25 years ago during the"tuner wars" stuff, now I look forward to not seeing an LS in anything. If you ever need any C5/C6 stuff, I still have a lot of parts. I have an LS7 block with a cracked sleeve (LS7 is the only LS block with replaceable sleeves) and a 5.7 LS1 that I need to reassemble. If I feel the need to do anything new-ish I'll swap a GN engine into something. I still have a pair of 89 TTA heads laying around....

the c6z kinda fell in lap, i really didnt want it when i was fixing it for the seller. the valve guide problem sucks with ls7s along with depending on your luck, if the sleeve cracks, alot of times the block does too. that and alot of the discontinued parts. i will say it was alot more car than my c5, but i only bought the c5 as a childhood goal. im definitley glad i got the pontiac...but...when i was happy about the 2nd gear scratch it did...i started thinking about the vettes murdering the tires at 40 or 50 mph rolls. they do have a gear advantage though...i dont doubt this 400 will knock some tires off with good gears

[SRGN]

Originally Posted by performerrpm

the c6z kinda fell in lap, i really didnt want it when i was fixing it for the seller. the valve guide problem sucks with ls7s along with depending on your luck, if the sleeve cracks, alot of times the block does too. that and alot of the discontinued parts. i will say it was alot more car than my c5, but i only bought the c5 as a childhood goal. im definitley glad i got the pontiac...but...when i was happy about the 2nd gear scratch it did...i started thinking about the vettes murdering the tires at 40 or 50 mph rolls. they do have a gear advantage though...i dont doubt this 400 will knock some tires off with good gears

You don't have to explain anything about the C5, my 01 was the first new car I bought. I was in my 20s and I have no regrets. Got it into the mid 11s with bolt ons, it was a lot of fun. I helped out at a friend's LS tuner shop (Cartek Performance Engineering), so I got to work on a lot of fun stuff. Probably why I'm sick of LS stuff now. I think a mild 400 with 3.90 + gears, a T56 behind it or a 6spd auto would run right with a lot of newer cars.