Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 (2014)
for sale
Price: US $200.00
Price: US $200.00
This is a race car in street car clothing !
This technoligy is astounding ! WOW ! This is a 427 6speed manual and has a pedigree. This was a Chevrolet factory car and has only 729 miles. This new was just shy of $73, 000.00. This has the dual mode exhust, blue tooth., c/d, carbon fiber hood insert, ricaro suede seats, suede steering wheel and shifter, power winows, radio controls on the steering wheel, cruise control, electric power steering, automatic headlamps, and more. This Z 28 is Chevrolet Certified.
The legendary Z/28 returns, but forget the 80s: This one takes its inspiration from the original Z/28 of 1967. It’s a serious track car—more than 300 pounds lighter than a ZL1—powered by a 505-hp 7.0-liter V-8 mated to a six-speed manual. With a unique suspension and 19-inch wheels, it hugs the track like a lover, pulling more than 1.0 g on the skidpad and lapping the Nürburgring faster than a new Porsche 911. It’s not designed for the street.
2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 This is America's track star.
INSTRUMENTED TEST
From the May
2014 Issue of
Car and Driver
“I told ’em on the radio
that I was pulling over a Z/28, and they said they don’t make them no
more, ” the cop says with a drawl straight off the pages of Faulkner. “I told
’em, ‘Whatever it is, this is a bad-ass car.’ ”
This member of Alabama’s
finest claims that Dick Knoll, Camaro lead integration engineer and driver of
the Z/28 I’m riding in, put a wheel over the yellow line a mile back on
Interstate 20. Knoll doesn’t dispute it because it’s already evident that no
tickets will be written today. This is a fan-boy shakedown. The officer barely
glances at Knoll’s driver’s license before collecting his take. Cell phone
already in hand, his question is rhetorical: “Do you mind if I take a few
pictures?”
Officer Instagram can’t
be faulted. There’s been enough hype around the Camaro Z/28 revival to launch a
dozen blogs. It is retro done right: the return of a storied name applied to a
modern car crafted in the same spirit as the 1967 original. Like that first
Z/28 that homologated Chevy’s Trans-Am racer, this new incarnation’s mission is
to lay down fast laps on a road course. It was developed on the Nürburgring, Road Atlanta, Road America, and Virginia International Raceway, as well as at
GM’s own Milford road course. Fittingly, our road test covered more distance on
the 2.4-mile track at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama, than on
public streets.
The Z/28 is not the
quickest, the fastest, or the most powerful Camaro, but it is the most
expensive at $75, 000, or more than three times the price of a six-cylinder
model. Its only clear-cut competitor is the $49, 990 Mustang Boss 302 Laguna Seca that
Ford stopped building last year. And even then, the parallels exist in concept, not execution. With a 7.0-liter V-8, carbon-ceramic brakes, damper technology
borrowed from Formula 1, and the widest front tires on a production car, Chevy’s Camaro Z/28 is a Boss 302 fighter raised on growth hormones and
testosterone.
Plucked from GM’s last
track-day special, the 2013 Corvette Z06, the Z/28's port-injected
LS7 V-8 is fortified with new pistons and titanium connecting rods whose
bearing inserts are now spray-coated for improved durability. There are also a
cold-air intake, revised exhaust headers, and a repackaged dry-sump oiling
system, but there’s more hardware that’s carry-over than new under the hood. At
505 horsepower and 481 pound-feet of torque, the Z/28’s LS7 makes just six more
pound-feet than when this engine made its debut eight years ago.
Just as it did back then, the LS7 oozes power whether the Z/28 is standing
still or at speed. The car quakes under a loping idle as heat radiates from the
carbon-fiber extractor and blurs the view through the windshield. Racing toward
a 7000-rpm redline, the Z/28 smears Barber’s manicured landscaping as if it
were a still-wet watercolor, while the exhaust’s raucous bawl rattles the
cabin. Zero to 60 mph passes in 4.4 seconds, and the quarter-mile clears in
12.7, by which time you’re doing 116 mph. True, the Z/28 isn’t as quick as the
ZL1 in a straight line, but that’s not the point.
The six-speed manual
transmission shared with the Camaro SS 1LE is
geared for road-course duty, with closer ratios passed through a shorter 3.91:1
final drive. Shifts are heavy and stiff, and the pedals are spaced a
toe’s-width too far apart for easy heel-and-toe action. The substantial
displacement of the naturally aspirated V-8 compensates with a low end that’s
nearly as forceful as its top end is intense. We work over Barber using third
and fourth gears and every rev between 3000 and 7000 rpm.
The Pirelli P Zero Trofeo
Rs are essentially street-legal racing tires so tacky that, during development
testing, they occasionally stuck to the pavement better than to the wheels they
were mounted on. To keep the Pirellis from slipping around the rim, the wheels
on production Z/28s are media-blasted to increase friction at the mating
surface, a common practice in racing.
The massive front tires
are the same size as the rears, a remedy first used on the 1LE to address the
Camaro SS’s penchant for understeer. Here, though, the rubber is sized up to
305/30 and mounted on smaller, lighter 19-inch forged aluminum wheels. When
warm, the tires stick to the pavement like four wads of melted Wrigley’s. In
Barber’s long, mid-speed corners we saw as much as 1.06 g of lateral stick, despite a damp track and temperatures struggling to top 40 degrees. The Z/28 is
neutral and responsive at the limits, and the Torsen-type limited-slip
differential prudently doles out power on corner exit. The flat-bottom steering
wheel has the same heft and on-center sharpness as the Camaro ZL1’s.
update: 2015-07-18
Certified pre-owned |
“This is a race car in street car clothing ! This technoligy is astounding ! WOW ! This is a 427 6speed manual and has a pedigree. This was a Chevrolet factory car and has only 729 miles. This new was just shy of $73,000.00. This has the dual mode exhust, blue tooth., c/d, carbon fiber hood insert, ricaro suede seats, suede steering wheel and shifter, power winows, radio controls on the steering wheel, cruise control, electric power steering, automatic headlamps, and more. This Z 28 is Chevrolet Certified.” |
VIN (Vehicle Identification Number): | 2G1FS1EE6E9699039 | Year: | 2014 |
Mileage: | 729 | Make: | Chevrolet |
Sub Model: | Z/28 | Model: | Camaro |
Interior Color: | Red Hot | Trim: | Z/28 Coupe 2-Door |
Transmission: | Manual | Engine: | 7.0L 7011CC 427Cu. In. V8 GAS OHV Naturally Aspirated |
Warranty: | Vehicle has an existing warranty | Drive Type: | RWD |
Vehicle Title: | Clear | Number of Cylinders: | 8 |
For Sale By: | Dealer | Body Type: | Coupe |
Disability Equipped: | No | Fuel Type: | Gasoline |