Originally Posted by DaveB

I've owned a high powered muscle car (modded 94 Z28, 3 years) and I can tell you drag racing a slower sedan is far more enjoyable. It's not about the ultimate ET/MPH, it's about doing the best you can do with the power you have. My Z went lower 13s with minimal bolt-ons and my G is over 1 second slower, but that doesn't bother me. It's incredible fun to roll up to the starting line in a sedan and blow the doors off some cocky and **** poor driving Mustang/F-Body/SRT-4/etc owner. I drag race because I find it a great time. I like to race my cars and I like to watch others race their cars. Running lower 14s in a sedan raises a lot more eyebrows than some Fox body Stang ripping a low 12.



So your 2000 SS Camaro has the LS6 from the 03+ Corvette Z06? Sorry, I find this all terribly hard to believe. I've been around F-Body's long enough to know what it takes to go deep 11s and that I've never heard of an LS6 transplant in an F-Body.

Originally Posted by Wingsprint

Dave,

The F-Body LS6 swap is common these days. Check out LS1.com, there is more than a few guys that have done the swap. Stock they are running in the 12's. Other than the oil pan, brackets and a computer change the LS6 is a direct bolt in replacement for the LS1.

I failed to mention that my LS6 is not stock (is now a 422ci) and nether is the car. My company builds sprint car engines, so we know a few things about aluminum small block bow tie engines. The last time we dynoed the SS it was putting out just under 500hp to the rear wheels.

Originally Posted by DaveB

Gimmick? I don't think so. As I'm coming up to a turn I can downshift into the correct gear in MM. It does it as quickly as someone with a 6MT, probably quicker. That's what I use it for. I rarely see the need to use MM when accelerating unless I want to hold a gear.

It gets a little annoying reading posts from some 6MT owners thinking that having a manual somehow makes them a professional driver because they choose to row their own and that people with autos are lazy and incompetent. I've driven both the 6MT and auto and I've owned a handful of manual tranny cars. To me, the G doesn't feel any less sporty with the auto simply because the auto has the correct amount of gears, a MM, and shifts pretty quick. There were three 03 6MTs available when I bought my G and I choose the auto because I felt it drove a hell of a lot better. The 6MT exhibited excessive shifter buzz, a resistant gear box, and two had faint throw out bearing rattles. My Maxima was the same way and after 6 years I was tired of it. Some people say they like the "buzz" because it allows them to feel what the car was doing. I find the buzz annoying and doesn't fit the character of the car at all. If it was a Vette/F-Body/Stang, I could let it slide, but not in a sport-luxury car. BMWs don't suffer from this, why should Infiniti's?

I'll leave it at that.