Just as a small note Jordan's updated title is global chief engineer of small block engines. And yes the Chevy boys call it a Chivy.

The plastic interior bit on the seatbelt flopping around on Mark's shoulder with the ls7 screaming in the background is the perfect metaphor of this car.

This is exactly why I love this channel. These deep dives on older cars is truly something special. Plus I don't know how you guys even managed to get in touch with the team that built this car, that blew my mind. Good stuff!!

The interviews with the engineers are SUCH an amazing part of this channel. Literally no other youtube channel does stuff like this, and its SO refreshing to hear straight from the people who designed the parts rather than from rumors started by forums/random journalists

It was great working with you guys on this! Great job Mark and Jack!

I'm an automotive engineer myself (vehicle dynamics). The reason I am, and the reason I wanted to achieve something in life when I was young, is the C6 Z06. It is my absolute dream car. I had the chance to afford one 4 years ago and it is everything I wished for. I'm driving my hero and I love it more with every day. The engine is one of the best ever made, of that I am convinced. It's not just a car, it's a dream for young boys all around the world, at least that's what it is for me. Inspiring, exhilirating, beautiful and timeless. I would like to thank everyone on the team that put their heart and soul into the development of this car, you can feel it while driving, it's alive, it is more than the sum of it's parts. It's automotive history!

I had 2 LS7 drop valves, 1 at 65k miles and the other at 30k miles… two different engines, the first cracked the block and the second just the piston. The reason there wasn’t many in the beginning was because most people garaged them and kept the mileage low or babied them. So once prices dropped and people started buying them and driving or tracking them more (after warranty’s are long expired) then it’s started raining valves and GM was no longer liable even though they knew there was an issue obviously.

I’ve had 3 of these. The head issue is very very real. 1. Heads fixed twice, 06 25k-39k miles 2. 18k mile car, guides toast 3. Dropped a valve at 57k before I got it, has engine from 2nd car now.

This video got me feeling tight in the New Balances 🥵🥵🥵

As a C6 Z06 owner and I love the car. I absolutly don't agree with the engineers take on the valve guides. Ive seen many, many examples of dropped valves including people with z28 camaros in the last production units of the LS7. Some people had no issues at all with over 100k miles and some had issues at 10k miles. Issue is if you did drop a valve the motor was complete junk.

This generation definitely has the best gauge cluster of any Corvette. I think it ties the C5 in overall appearance as well.

I bought one of these to have a fun summer car 7 years ago.... and now I still have it in the collection stored away and will never sell it. One of the absolute best vehicles I've ever been in under 60k. It is funny how the guy flat out lied about the heads though, but with the lawsuit I guess they need to cover their tracks.

The GM tech belittling the valve drop issue is wild. Every SINGLE c6z owner has either had a valve drop, owns a car with a new motor due to a valve drop, or personally knows a fellow c6z owner that has dropped a valve, usually witnessing the damage themselves. There’s a reason there is a network of GM dealers that still do valve wiggle tests on LS7’s for next to nothing. Because every LS7 has a potential valve guide issue, and it needs to be addressed. The internet didn’t “blow it up.” They just started posting personal valve drop stories, and there’s a plethora. Fix your heads, throw a cam in it, and get a wiggle test every 10k miles. But don’t act like it’s not a big deal, GM.

Love that the C6 ZO6 is getting the love and respect that it deserves. But, I really wish you guys would've let Mark shit on it more, just to keep the price from sky rocketing due to a youtuber bro tax.

I'm surprised the GM engineers didn't mention the relationship with Katech and the fact that the C5 race cars ran 7 liter engines to totally dominate the endurance racing circuit. Why did they end up at 7 liters? Duh! The square port heads were largely lifted from the race engine program too.

This is my all time favorite car, and my attainable dream car. I even love the garbage interior. My family always had gms in the 90s and 2000s as i grew up and it just feels like home.

everyone bags on the interiors, but take a long look at a 996 interior, it ain't nothing special either

I'm currently on my second C6Z. It is a special car that is truly in a class of its own when it comes to performance and simplicity.

Today, June 30th 2023 - Corvette anniversary It seems unbelievable, but Corvette has reached 70 years of history. Let's celebrate!

C6 Z06 was an instant legend, and icon. It‘s mighty LS7 powertrain by itself is the stuff of legends. C6 Z06 ever since they were unleashed have been wrecking ferraris, Lamborghinis, McLarens, Aston Martins, Porsches and you name the model&make across race tracks all over the world!

Having tracked a C6 ZR1 11,000 track miles ......I've personally seen at least 3 or 4 C6 Z06's drop valves and grenade they're engines in a fireball!! Replace the springs and retainers first thing! Great car , and parts were much more reliable than our C7 Z06's that have had everything fail with hard lapping (mag shocks, rear mains, tie rod ends, overheating, etc.). The C6 was a much more dependable track car once you addressed the valve springs and retainers.

I feel honored to have owned 2 C6z’s. The last of the lightweight big engine N/A cars and IMO the best transmission gearing in any car ever!

Corvette, there can only be one. Greatest car in the world period no matter generation.

I bought my C6 Z51 in 2012. Car has been great and is literally faster than 99% of what is on the street, but watching videos like this makes me really wish I bought a slightly used C6 Z06

As an owner of a C6 Z06. Going to enjoy this so much

"Uploaded 1 minute ago". Oh I am so looking forward to watching this video after work. Awesome machine reviewed by my favorite car testers!

This was possibly the best coverage of the C6Z I've yet to see, extremely well done gentlemen! I own a black C6Z (although with silver C7Z wheels, which look amazing) and use it as my DD. I can honestly say after many years, I still LOVE this car! I know everyone rags on the interior and I agree with all your points regarding it (although, I do love the gauge cluster and much prefer it over the newer digital dashes). My only disagreement with the content was the comments from the GM folks regarding the valve guide wear and failures. While I would agree most LS7's have not experienced catastrophic failure (the valve head breaks off and typically nukes the entire engine when they totally fail), there most certainly is/was a major issue that affected ALL LS7's (it wasn't just one batch or year range). I have yet to see a LS7 with over 10k on it that doesn't have at least one valve with excessive (out of spec) wear, and usually there are several. They can go a long time without total failure, but if/when they let go, it's ugly. It was certainly not a single "bad batch", unless you want to say every LS7 they ever made was from that "bad batch"! The problem can be mitigated, and given the known issue and cost of total engine replacement, any LS7 owner should seriously consider having it addressed as an insurance measure. Besides, it's a great opportunity to easily add another 150 hp while the engine is open, which REALLY wakes these cars up! But GM is so full of crap to say there wasn't a significant issue, that's total bull$hit! and never did a recall for one reason only... $$$!!

I used to own a C6 Z06 and loved it. My good friend had a C7 with a super charger on it. The C7 could not pull away from me. I sure miss my C6 Z06.

Honestly, the C6 generation is still the best looking Corvette in my opinion. I love the sleek clean design.

I still remember riding in one of these back in '08, it was a jaw-dropping experience. Very cool car.

Great video guys! I've always wanted one of these Corvettes. Now I want one even more!

Had a 2007 C6 Z. It was an absolute blast. I sold it for my deposit on my C7Z. Looking back, I wish I would have kept it as well.

This Generation was my poster car growing up. It was my "end of the game/beat the final boss/beat every time trial" car of choice in literally EVERY racing i've ever played.

Only a minute in and I had to rewind the video already due to the fantastic opening 😮😮😮

Just picked one of these up. 2nd owner, low miles and no mods on the car. It’s definitely something special

Love my C6Z. 600+whp NA is something that is hard to explain, and can only truly be experienced to fully understand.

Love these in depth videos of older vehicles!

Major respect for you getting access to the engineers, that’s crazy hard work bros!

How can you not love this channel ! You guys are the best, I truly appreciate the knowledge you are sharing with us. The amount of work behind a presentation like this is enormous, thank you for making this happens ❤️

7.0L LS7. I mean what more can be said….. ❤️

Best looking Corvette in my honest opinion. The new body style looks like a cheap Ferrari and even though it's got more interior room due to the mid engine layout it somehow looks smaller on the outside. Having Todd do a cameo at the end would have been icing on the cake.

I LOVED the banter at the start of the track section at Autobahn country club. Been subscribed for a year or two now, and the contrast of deep diving detail and banter is unmatched. Keep it up gents!

New Chirstmas Tradition! Had to watch this again Merry Christmas!

The Corvette C6 Z06 is my favorite Corvette to date. The last of the analog Corvettes. It's arguably the best Vette ever built. Aside from the C6 ZR1. A complete drivers car that you won't find with the digital cars of today. Chevrolet went out with a bang on this one. And the fireworks at the end of the video are fitting. God Bless America.

Great job with the perfect audio clip to start the driving segment. Really captures the reason why Corvettes are so classic

20:20 I like how the interior piece starts smacking on Mark as Jack is going all out Mark sliding around the car was funny as hell this was a good video 😂

Great video, love these kind of featured vehicle pieces. Those long gears and that 7.0L make my toes curl. Thanks, gentlemen!

This is my favorite channel on KZfaq. Thanks to everyone at SG and all the collaborative efforts!

This is way more fun then some SUV/ crossover review. Thanks!

I have a man crush on you guys, keep it coming.

One of my all time favorite Corvettes. I absolutely LOVE the C6 Z06. Excellent video, guys. Always jealous of your amazing production quality and knowledge. Hope to get to meet you guys in person someday. Keep up the excellent content!

Thank you Chevrolet for the insights, It is truly special to get information from the people who made it. We appreciate that. And for this video, A - MAZING visuals... would love to see behind the scenes of the efforts that went into making videos like these!

FINALLY a cool car. Been a drought of interesting and memorable cars featured.

Once again. Awesome video gentlemen!! I own a 2015 Z/28. The powertrain and carbon ceramic brakes are a key feature on this car. I’m so glad I bought it when I did.

The best car channel ever IMO. So informative, you put so much effort and knowledge into it. No over the top joking making fun of everything there are other channels for that. There aren't many presenters who can convince me about the qualities of a specific car which i never drove and the quality of the footage is also amazing no crazy music video effects but nice cinematic shots. Bravo guys life time subscriber here ;)

Wow this thing is an absolute beast. It's soo cool watching the input from the engineering team.

The GOAT imo. This and the C6 ZR1 are my all time favorite Vettes. If I had the money I’d have either of those two over any Corvette being made today and any other generation outside of the C2.

My favorite car of all time would be the Terminator Cobra but my 2nd place would be a C6 ZR1. Love those cars, I'd much rather have one of them over a C8.

You guys are so thorough and the cinematics are equally impressive. I really believe you deserve more subscribers, but that time will come.

Excellent job on filming and documenting the C6Z! It will go down as one of the greats from this era

Thank you guys for doing these in depth videos on these older iconic cars! Being the owner of a 2005 C6 what I think makes this generation so attractive today is how well these cars can be modified to be tracked. I autocross and the C6 Z06 with varying degrees of modification are always well representated at local and national events.

Still one of the most beautiful automotive designs ever!

How long I’ve been waiting for this car reviewed on this channel. Hell yeah

I was a Bowling Green and saw the very first one come off the assembly line. It was amazing to see that.

One of thr most underrated car channels on KZfaq! The cinematics in all your videos is incredible! One thing I would love to see: every time you get the cars you review on track, you should start recording lap times and keep a overall ranking board. Would be cool to see how the C6 Z06 stacks up against modern performance cars an a value for cost/performance for older generation cars.

Awesome to see you guys review this. One of my favorites cars and even at todays values you can’t find something that drives like this.

Excellent video! Love the primary source interviews with the guys responsible for the beast. A good friend of mine got an absolute steal on a showroom condition (sub 3k miles), velocity yellow '08 and let me drive it a couple times. Was a top-10 must drive, bucket list car and absolutely did no disappoint. It really is hard to overstate the force of that LS7 torque flat out. In any gear, at any speed, there's torque on-demand. Brilliant engine, brilliant car.

Things like getting the engineering team involved are what really sets this channel apart from other automotive channels. Love it.

Great work, a real tribute to such a car.

The c6z is the best modern corvette IMO. It just does everything right, it's what a modern corvette should be. The regular c5 and c6z are just two beautiful cars that you can feel the passion the designers had for them. Can't wait for the c8z.

This video, with all the usual technical review + GM engineers interview, is a great piece of car journalism.

Really enjoyed listening to the engineers. Excellent Jack!!

Thank you Mark for adding that ~40 seconds of track driving at the end of the driving impressions segment. It was aural bliss.

Love the video and the fact you are doing this on an older model. I had a C6 Z06 for about 2 years and loved it. With that said, and as a 15+ year member of the Corvette Forum, the engineers are full of sh*t saying they couldn't find any valve drop warranty issues.

Great video. Never thought I'd care so much to learn about the c6 z06. Would love to have a video on the c7 z06 next!

I just watched Jack’s first review and WHEW LAD, he’s come a long way. Great video my dudes.

Fantastic video for such a special car. Ive had so many LX engines over the years, and this one is just special. There are a number of things in the engineer interviews however that are head scratchers. Like the fact that the bore size had been around since the C5R and most of the valve failures were in the non-titanium 2-piece exhaust valves (which they updated to a thicker wall in ~07/'08). No doubt though that the failure rate is likely overdone on the internet and probably more correlated with modified engines than stock ones. That's another crazy thing about the LS7, it responds so well to modifications. Fairly easy to extract another 100HP in naturally aspirated form without any real drivability impacts. The LS7 will likely go down as the most impressive small block ever made.

Those downshifts 🤩 so satisfying

Thanks for the video. I loved the work put into this!

This was great to watch and reflect back on simpler times when sports cars had natural aspiration, mechanical LSDs and manual transmissions. The C6 Z06 definitely took the world by surprise with that wonderful LS7. In fact, Tiff Needel at Fifth Gear(a Britt and legit F1 driver) named the C6 Z06 car of the year back in the day... That's saying a LOT It makes me happy to see it's still wonderful to drive all these years later.

I love my z06 !Massive improvement with solid engine and trans mount If you can find one with the z07 package it’s golden

c6z and c6zr1 were my dream cars.. the exhaust notes sound incredible. As much as I love z06's (of all generations)... the c6z absolutely has issue dropping valves. shops literally have built entire careers out of rebuilding these heads/motors

Excellent review gentlemen! The short comings really do fall away when you drive this special car.

I think the C6 is my favorite gen of Corvette and SG is undoubtedly my favorite YT channel! Nice work guys.

Guys please interact with Savagegeese community posts, like them to boost the channel's reach. Let's help support these guys so we can keep getting independent content of this quality.

The c6 generation is so damn good. Looks great, and an awesome performance machine with great motor options across the board.

Y’all are effing geniuses integrating the lower res call in the infotainment screen. Love your work!

Was just in a 08 Z06 today.. IDK.. I really enjoyed the interior. Nothing sub-par or inferior about it. In fact no creaks and rattles. The car was solid and comfortable.

This is going to be my next car, I have a ls swapped 240sx that's actually faster than my sisters z06, but the z06 is just so special.

I just watched the RCR review on this car last month. Great points covered in both videos. Thanks for bringing us something that isn't currently out-of-stock at the dealership, but still feels slightly unobtainable.

I owned a 09 Z06 and currently own a 10 Zr1. I love these cars.

This Intro is a work of art. Here because youtube recommended this video, and I am glad they did. Hope to be here for more to come!

How can they say that the internet blew it out of proportion when extremely reputable corvette shops like Katech and Lingenfelter have seen tons of failures. These failures are seen in all years 2006 to 2013... They fail to mention that the LS9 and LS7 may have the same valve guides, but they have different angles. LS7 sees more side loading on the valve than the LS9...

Awesome review. The valve guide issue is real though. We all know this is the truth. Regardless it is ok since it is the perfect excuse to go heads/cam upgrade while addressing the issue! That is what I did and love the car. Thanks for the in depth review.

I'm incredibly energetic after listening to the track sessions. Incredible audio quality

Just when I had my mind in getting a z06 and trying to see if you guys made a review on it already. Perfect timing!

I remember back in 2010 seeing it and thinking this is the first American sports car I genuinely like

This just in: prices of C6 Z06’s have jumped 30% in a single day!

c6Z will go down as the best vette ever ❤

Guys... that intro montage made me wanna cry. Great video, great insight into a still amazing car.