....and some magnesium

 

Yes, the engine cradel. Hell, it has a hydroformed aluminum frame, hand built engine with titanium con rods, makes 505 HP, weights 3100lbs and gets 28mpg.

The Z06 Fawking rocks, and appart from not having hand stitched leather interior it's a fully fawking ***** on car, nuff said, it's just a fact.

Anyone who says otherwise just has not driven one, or did not drive it where it should have been driven.

I own both. I have a fairly modded 996 Turbo S, and a Z06. I prefer the handling feel in my Turbo S and I love the Porsche experience, but the Z06 does it all, they are very comperable, vehicles, but hard to compare because they do it differently.

 

28mpg, im assuming it turns off half the cylinders ?

 

Plus the roof structure(frame ) is magnesium...There is an option for 2008 for leather dash and door panels

 

No.....6th gear is an overdrive gear.

 

It does take over 600 wheel hp in a Porsche to smoke a 505 crank HP car.

I took out a 680 rwhp car mustang cobra (with a good driver) with a stock z06. The cobra is a quick car but its a little fat.

 

You only need about 600 crank to beat the c6z06.............trust me I know.

 

bro you havnt ran into the right driver yet! either these people you waxed cant drive. or you are a good driver. for 1 your 1/4 mile time on you 996 is what i have seen a stock zo6 with DRs run. your 996 is mooded to hell. it all comes down to driver most of the time. next year when the new supercharged ZO6 comes out just about any driver will beat you in the 1/4. now track is different like said many times the better driver will win.

 

Agreed. You must own both! That makes it easy.

If I had to get rid of one, I would have to flip a coin. The vette is ***** on fun to drive, you can hang the *** out anywhere you want, do big smokey smoke shows, rolling burnouts, etc... but when your mood changes, you can take any twisty road and pull a G through the corners. The Porsche just feels right, and I love it's crisp precise feeling!

 

No, its mostly good gearing.

 

I have 640hp crank in my TurboS. It isn't faster than the Z06.

trust me I KNOW.

 

Hmm that's strange. At what speed did you run?

 

comon man, Ranger is a professional drag racer, all he does is try to break the stock Z06 records and he probably has over 500 passes on the C6Z already, he lives at the track, I wouldnt count that.

Not to mention he runs at what is considered the fastest and best prepped track (or top three) in the country, compared to Joe running in hot elevation in AZ. Trust me, that turbo is much faster than any Z.

Only 1800 of the supercharged Z will be produced, 100k msrp, millions of crazy and lots of rich garage queeners will have them, you wont see but a couple at the track EVER. They are a non issue, almost as bad as mag racing.

BTW GM did a fantastic job of covering up all of the cheap stuff they did to the car, the whole thing is glued together, to save weigh, which is why the roofs are flying off, there are lots of cheap components on corvettes, always have been, always will be, Porsche ARE built better with better materials.


Look at it this way, if Porsche made the 997 Turbo like a track car (not GT2) and just eliminated some of the deadening, lost more weight but kept AWD and tried to make it anything other than a fast cruiser (face it the turbo was not built for racing, the vette was designed after the race car) it would smash the Z06, but even as it is, without even trying to beat the Z06, Porsche has come close, like I said earlier, its way overpriced as new but you cant argue that for what it contains and was built for, it's one bad ****.



IT DOES NOT TAKE 600WHP TO BEAT A Z06!!!!! It only takes k24's, a very good ecu and an exhaust. I can prove that any time.

 

Then either your Turbo S is a fat pig or you dont have 640 crank.

 

Because when you build so few units, you have to subsidize your cost more with each one. Ferrari and Porsche don't have the Chevy volume. Additionally, Ferrari intentionally builds expensive cars and does not overproduce so that the cars will retain their high values.

Z06 isn't just fast in a straight line. If you're comparing stock to stock and performance only, the Z06 wins. If you start looking at other items like price, luxuries, marque, steering feel, etc. it's personal preference.