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> Z28 VS C4 handling (modded for road racing), Handling potential of an f-body vs C4
Augusto
post Jun 21 2009, 09:34 AM
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Hi, everybody. I'm really excited to go for an all out track car project.

I'm really puzzled at this dilemma: could a 98 Z28 be modded to match or surpass the handling of a C4 with Z51 like susp (Crossmember and camber brace mods)?

I may be able to trade my 98 LS1 Z28 for an auto '95 C4 (and like 3K of cash, and I would swap a ZF6 and mod susp). C4s are not so cheap to get in my country (as opposed to fbodies), let alone C5s. I was just about to swap a T56 (with relocation crossmember, Z06 clutch, etc) on the Z. Before I just do either of it, I want to make sure to know if I can achieve handling capabilities of a Z51 C4 or close through modding (shocks, tires, rims, sfc, kmember, a-arms, torque arm, lcas, panhard, strano swaybars, rollbar, a little diet, etc). Guys please be honest.

I've seen biased opinions on the C4 side by people who do not really focus on track improvement (and take stock form as a reference) so I thought this would be the right place to ask.

I want to make sure to invest time and effort on the car with better handling potential (modded) on the following couple of years. (Ultimate purpose: Road Racing and a little of AutoX).
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Augusto   Z28 VS C4 handling (modded for road racing)   Jun 21 2009, 09:34 AM
trackbird   Augusto, The only information I can add is that m...   Jun 21 2009, 02:40 PM
roy   With the mods you listed the C4 vette will always ...   Jun 21 2009, 02:56 PM
prockbp   Check historic autocross results here: http://www...   Jun 21 2009, 03:40 PM
Augusto   Thanks, guys. Really appreciated.   Jun 21 2009, 05:14 PM
00 Trans Ram   I'm going to have to disagree, but only becaus...   Jun 21 2009, 09:22 PM
Mojave   Auto-x classing and results (in AS vs FS, BSP vs E...   Jun 21 2009, 10:24 PM
Blainefab   QUOTE (Augusto @ Jun 21 2009, 02:34 AM) a...   Jun 21 2009, 11:25 PM
00 Trans Ram   Mine may very well be some skewed results. I know ...   Jun 22 2009, 04:08 AM
00 Trans Ram   I knew there was soemthing else I wanted to say...   Jun 22 2009, 04:10 AM
Mojave   QUOTE (00 Trans Ram @ Jun 21 2009, 11:08 ...   Jun 22 2009, 04:20 AM
Augusto   I'm aware the first mod to an A4 C4 will be ZF...   Jun 22 2009, 05:21 AM
Blainefab   The C4 chassis is fixed with way less cage than a ...   Jun 22 2009, 08:20 AM
Augusto   QUOTE (Blainefab @ Jun 22 2009, 03:20 AM)...   Jun 23 2009, 04:33 AM
roostmeyer   Just curious what are c4's weighing in at in f...   Jun 22 2009, 02:37 PM
Mojave   QUOTE (roostmeyer @ Jun 22 2009, 09:37 AM...   Jun 22 2009, 06:36 PM
trackbird   I want a '91. It's the last year of the SB...   Jun 22 2009, 03:46 PM
roy   That one in the Video is a full caged car weighin...   Jun 22 2009, 06:56 PM
Blainefab   AFAIK nothing significant happened to the C4 suspe...   Jun 23 2009, 10:20 AM
00 Trans Ram   Does anyone have any other head-to-head results?He...   Jun 23 2009, 07:51 PM
Mojave   QUOTE (00 Trans Ram @ Jun 23 2009, 02:51 ...   Jun 23 2009, 08:01 PM
00 Trans Ram   I'll give the better suspension, front and bac...   Jun 24 2009, 04:06 AM
Augusto   QUOTE (00 Trans Ram @ Jun 23 2009, 11:06 ...   Jun 24 2009, 07:33 PM
00 Trans Ram   You're not going to go wrong either way.   Jun 26 2009, 03:33 AM
wannafbody   Let me throw some fun day autocross numbers out th...   Jul 5 2009, 03:22 AM
LT4Firehawk   Here's my personal experience, I've tracke...   Jul 15 2009, 04:55 AM
00 Trans Ram   Perhaps I need to borrow a C4 and see what I can d...   Jul 15 2009, 01:17 PM
Sam Strano   This goes back some time. But in 1999 there was a...   Jul 15 2009, 07:45 PM
00 Trans Ram   QUOTE (Sam Strano @ Jul 15 2009, 02:45 PM...   Jul 15 2009, 08:46 PM
SSTAT   QUOTE (00 Trans Ram @ Jul 15 2009, 04:46 ...   Jul 16 2009, 04:34 AM

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