Re: 67z vs 93z
Don't embarrass yourself, let the legend live, and don't run the '93. Those cars aren't particularly fast, but the 'ol Z's aren't nearly as fast as everyone remembers them being.
To get a 1st gen to run like most think they remember them running back in the day, you gotta have headers / open exhaust, and at MINIMUM a 4.33 gear... You also have to be running better than pump gas so that you can actually advance the distributor so that she can rev. All of these things equal terrible street manners in the old ride, which means that the new Z will walk you with the A/C on while in "D", listenting to his/her favorite Dan Fogleberg song on the CD player.
I love looking at the old stuff, but modern horsepower is so significantly better than stock vintage horsepower that it should not even be compared. The only thing that probably actually does compare between the two is curb weight. The '67 is no lightweight, and I'd be willing to guess that they are within 100 lbs. of each other.
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