Seems they do it every review of the camaro.the ls1 Even lost to the mustang on one review due to just smoking the tires off the line.

@@VcArena reviews from that era and even occasionally today manage some of the worst times I've ever seen. They get a LOT of goodwill for being "professional drivers" but just because you get paid doesn't mean you're any good at it. Unfortunately these poor results end up in magazines and parroted by everyone so these cars will forever be crap in the eyes of many. My personal results with Z28s i've owned (all t-top cars).. 1995 Z28 Automatic 14.1 @ 97mph, 1996 Z28 Automatic (2.73 geared) 14.2 @ 98mph and 2001 Z28 M6 13.1 @ 108mph.

Cant blame em I love doing donuts and burnouts in my camaro. I also just like cruising listening to that LT1. I have a couple videos on my channel!

Bold stance.

I really wish they’d give pony/muscle cars modern styling rather than this blunt ended retro garbage. The F-body was _always_ styled for its era. 1st gen was blunt ended like most 60s cars. 2nd gen was more aerodynamic and round. 3rd gen more angular to fit in with the 80s like the Fox Body. And this was more organic and ergonomic as were 90s cars like the SN95. Then the F-bodies died and we got the retro S197, Challenger, and Camaro in the mid-late 2000s.

I'd rather have the new LT1. And I daily drive a 97 LT1. Let's be real, the new car is 100 miles ahead of the old one...

Have you driven the new one ? I prefer the raw analog feel of my 1994 z28 6-speed.

​@@calvinnickel9995But the mid 2000s was the era of retro, so it fit right in!

gotta think compare the minimal options on a new lt1 to what was in the old lt1... $5k and you get all the new car stuff including safety and around 150hp more... what a deal! and a low end LT! has more comfort items than any 4th gen had.

Interesting story

Buy a t56 lt1 4th gen and revisit the old days B)

Classic story

Nice 🤟🏻

I had a 95 Z28 as well and man I wish I never sold it

Mine made 460hp to the wheels with a 383 LT1 and a 24X swap. People keep sleeping on these old LT1s.

@@markovich3605 I loved those engines.

@@markovich3605 My Camaro had surprisingly good handling. More than I could have expected. It surprised me how good it handled handling.

@@MarkBarrett For sure! I did full UMI suspension under my 96. Thing handles like crazy. Really lightened up the car too. Honestly for a street car it is quite violent lol. Love the deep throaty sound of a cammed 383 LT1 too

@@markovich3605 The growl came from the crossplane crank. The new flat plane crank engine I designed and gave to GM in the new Corvette is better, but lost the "Growl". I remember on gravel, my '96 Camaro screamed its ABS about being on gravel.

they have the potential t fry themselves once the waterpump goes bad

@@DropDMurphyyou don’t know cars buddy

@@tonymancuso1340 really.. So you're telling me that the Optispark unit in not under the water pump and when the water pump fails and begins to leak, it does not damage the optispark unit? I will argue that with you all day long sir because my comment is correct.

@@DropDMurphy Ive been through at least 3 waterpumps with 160k miles+ on a 95z and have never had the opti fail. The opti fails because of moisture and ozone building up inside from the high voltage spark causing corrision on the electrodes, which was addressed in the 95+ models by applying a slight vaccum from the engine to get air moving around it. Another common reason for opti's to fail is not aligning it properly with the cam dowel. The opti is also a sealed unit, - it can get wet, but if you have a bad water pump its a good idea to not sit on replacing it.

​@BCToby Naw, he's right. I had a bypass hose blow, and it took out my opti. I have a 95 with the vented opti, too.

Murica!

You will really regret half of these mods on these cars lol

@@Original_Edition well im not regretting them yet😁. I drove the car stock for a year and driving it now after all the mods still no regret. Why do you say that? What is there to regret?

My ‘96 Z28 was auto, t tops and had the GSC tires, I programmed the computer. Ran 13.8 at 98 mph at Island Dragway.

@@rwk673 that's pretty good for back then, I should have done the chip. I did eventually change the exhaust to a Borla cat back and tried it again, I got it down another couple of tenths to a 14.0 and something I can't remember. These days I went backwards to driving a 3rd gen, back then I getting out of driving one.

@@irocitZ I had the hypertech power programmer. ‘96 didn’t have the chip, it was OBDII. I firmed up the shifts to where it would chirp 2nd gear. My friend had a ‘95 Trans Am w a borla exhaust. He was faster on the highway than me

@@rwk673 that's right, power programer that's what I meant. Obviously I didn't go crazy with performance mods because at the time I was ok with the way my car ran, I wasn't losing to Mustangs as much anymore. However, a friend worked at a stereo shop, because of him I wound up doing a huge system. 4 12 in subs, 3 amps MB Quartz speakers, I wasn't the fastest, maybe the loudest for a time.

I know right.. I ran a 125hp shot for 2 years tryin to kill mine. Bulletproof engines. Spark delivery is a bad design for sure…

Or exhaust systems that sound like a gun shot, worst and dumbest add on ever..

Basically the average person

@@johncholmes643Eggheads and Bookworms…

They are cool. I prefer my 1996 LT4 C4. But, I wouldn't kick a 4th Gen out of bed for eating crackers. They are VERY fun to drive.

I doubt that was the goal. If anything, it was to keep the numbers far from the Corvette.

275hp. I have the same 94 z28.

The '98 to '02 were referred to as the catfish Camaro.

Shark

This is rubbish.

Not if they were taken care of.

@@JoeSmith-tu7viIf that means more than basic maintenance than it’s junk.

@@Andyface79 I've owned three of them and none of them ever required more than basic maintenance, so they are fine by me.

Alot of them ended up junk because it was affordable performance for the day. Big number of these cars had the shit beat out of them and ran out of them. So You had to search around for a good one even when they were 5 years old.

You need your brain checked