I Need some advice

hey guys i need some help i found a grayish metaillic 1995 z28 it has about 135,000 miles on the body and about 75,000 on a corvette engine(a late model). He painted the interior silver and put 5 spoke wheels on it and he also painted the brake calipers, he also put leather seats in it and its a 6spd. He just put a new sound system in it and he wants 5800 for it. What would be the most you would give for it or what would you say it owuld be worht, ge abck to me asap.

hows the quality of the work, and was the engine/tranny swap professionally done or shadetree?

Whats wrong with shadetree?

What year corvette engine? Where did he get it? Get reciepts for it then test drive it and make sure everything works... Then offer him 5K and see if he bites...

yeah i would check that car out before i buy it, im getting a engine out of my friends vett but its getting put in at the shop by well trained people so thats what u gotta find out. is it what i call nigga riged or is it well done work. thats where people get screwed u wanna make sure it aint gonna fall apart next week. and i also say offer him 5k and see where u get

N**** riged, thats some funny s***! Philly, was there a diffenrence between vette LS1 and F-body LS1?

As far as I understood it the way GM did it was the f-bodies got the corvette motor a year or two after it was in the vette just cause GM can't have camaros and T/A's being competition for the vette of the same year. That being said I wouldn't be surprised if there were certain things done to the engins in the vettes to give them a little bit of an edge over f-bodies with the same engine...

I've heard that some vette were dynoing what an f-body would put to the wheels, sometimes the f-body puttin more. Where's Mr. Lous, i think he was the one who said this.

I do believe some 00-02 f-bodies were putting 300-305 to the wheels stock

Same motor.

The Vette was lighter, therefore faster. Not by much though.


I do believe some 00-02 f-bodies were putting 300-305 to the wheels stock
Most LS1 powered cars put that down. Not just the 00-02 models.

good to know, i stand happily corrected

Taken from a reliable source a couple years back....

Note: Factory LS1 powered F-Bodies have approximately the same Horsepower and Torque rating as the C5 Corvette of their perspective model years. GM actually underrates the specifications of the F-Body for C5 marketing purposes. Both the LS1 F-Body, and the C5 Corvette both show and average of 305rwhp on the dyno.

to sell C5s, and also I heard for less insurance on f-bodies?

Which corvette engine did it get?

well see it my friends car and the work all looks professional on it (he did it though) and there is nuttin wrong with the car and it runs awesome, i think the engine is out of like mid 90's vette nuttin special just an old vette engine, he has all receipts and everything, but see i'm lookin for ttops to but if it's worth about 5500 or somewhere close to that then i would be interested in gettin so do u think if i can get it for 55 then or what, u guys are the pros at this shit!

So the work LOOKS professional but isn't, does your friend know his shit when it comes to cars? And is the engine an LT1? or just a random corvette engine? If he knows his shit and it's an LT1 I think it's a decent deal, offer him 5500

find out what year vette also

the difference from an ls1 and a ls6 is the intake and heads and maybe the cam. a ls1 may put out 280-305 and the ls6 i think is around 350. since our cars are only heavier but a few hundred pounds its not a big difference. i had no idea vetts weighed so damn much but our vett guys were at the shop and pretty much told me the new engine will run about the same in my car than it did in his

id love to own a C5 Z06 over a camaro, but they cost so much f-ing money :(


how badly damaged was that vette that dude is selling you the engine from?