Who are you and what have you done with GT Premi?
Dude, I wouldn't brag about titanium nuts. It is the dumbest modification ever. For the ounces you save, you risk differential expansion and your precious nuts and wheels separating from your vehicle.
Viper vs. ZL1.....it must be the titanium lug nuts.
FTFY
Once Chevy puts the ZR1 engine in the ZL1 1LE, it's going to smash this GT500 everywhere. They already started offering it with the A10 transmission back in January just to make it kind of keep pace. I bet as soon as the GT500 hits production/dealers, Chevy is going to announce the 755HP engine going into the ZL1s. At that point, price and weight, you'd pretty much have to be crazy to pick the GT500 over a ZL1 counterpart, if performance is what you seek.
Nope! Don't start trying to let Ford off the hook! That kind of thinking is why we're being given a 4200 lbs hog for the top dog Mustang. To those trying to hint at how great it performs at this weight, imagine how much BETTER it would be, if it was 500 lbs lighter.
Where Ford squandered opportunities to save weight:*
- Steel rotors instead of carbon composite
- Steel k-member instead of carbon composite
- Stamped steel suspension components instead of lighter metals (Al, Mg, Ti)
- Getting stuck in the more power -> more cooling -> more weight loop
*For the "it would be too expensive" argument, this post was brought to you by the letter C and the number 8.
Dude, I wouldn't brag about titanium nuts. It is the dumbest modification ever. For the ounces you save, you risk differential expansion and your precious nuts and wheels separating from your vehicle.
Yes they were, that's why I had one of each (2013 and 2014).
What cost? Listen, I get that everything has a value, yada yada yada. The days of the Fox body Mustangs that can CHEAPLY be made in to track cars, are over. Period. Nothing is cheap. Adding power isn't cheap, reducing weight isn't cheap, adding lateral grip isn't cheap, reducing stopping speed isn't cheap, etc.
The MY20 GT500 ARE NOT your blue collar track cars, period. They have entered in to the white collar track guy's playbook, ie Porsche, Viper, etc.
For instance, I decided I wanted to lose some weight in my Viper. I spent $350 on titanium open lugnuts, $1300 on a carbon fiber belly pan, $1300 on a carbon fiber driveshaft, $2000 on lightweight wheels (not light enough, about to purchase some Forgeline GTD-1s for $6k), twin disc clutch and light flywheel for $3000 and I ordered Tillet seats to save weight for $5000. So adding that up, excluding the wheels I haven't ordered yet, I'm sitting at almost $13,000 to save just over 150#. I'll be in it for nearly $20000 and save 180#.
A friend of mine has spent $30k lightening his car up. He's just under 3000#, and he just spent an additional $35k on a heads/cam package running on E12, put down 803/730.
Moral of the story, no it won't be cheap/free, but this car isn't about being cheap or free.
Viper vs. ZL1.....it must be the titanium lug nuts.
No excuses here, just the truth. I'm not a stellar driver by any means, but I wiped the floor with a ZL1 1LE this past weekend. I was turning 5-6 seconds faster a lap than he was, and he was on Pirelli slicks, while I'm running R7s (easily a 1.5-2 second advantage his direction).
This car will be faster than the ZL1 in a straightline, and will run damn near as fast as the Redeye. On the track it will run with the ZL1 and kill a Redeye. Wait until you see a few lap times.
Maybe on a sub 1.5 mile track.