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Originally Posted by Idaho2018GTPremium
It’s 650 ft-lbs, of course you can spin the tires. I can easily spin the tires in my A10 ZL1 in 2nd gear. And traction control reins it in out of a turn. Turn off TC and you’ll probably end up sideways or in a ditch. But clearly you want the GT500 so just get one.
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I was going to say that. You don't know what you don't know. In my 5th ZL1 I wanted more tire spinning power. The bolt on mods including tune and e85 put it around 700 crank. It just spins 1st and into second with a 6 speed auto. I did get sideways a couple times as you point out. Stability control helped me save it from looping around in the middle of the street. I rarely turn off TC because I know what will happen. So now you have
TC pulling back your power from your mods until it's even less than stock as you spin the rears and it fights you to get them back under control. The rest of the pull feels like a dog. The big hp is only good for a highway pull which I don't do or a prepped drag strip with sticky race rears which I don't go to the strip anymore as they close down and don't buy those kind of tires. You don't know what bigger hp does on the street from just numbers or youtube.
I still love the ZL1s and the GT500s are cool with me too, I'm not so brand loyal but they are behind in handling for certain at least in the mid 2000s.
Yep with TC and Stability controls off like a Keyboard Hero we'll see the car on AA auction all smunched up for sale soon.