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Corvette ZR-1 : Why it Was The First Mainstream Super Car

In April 1995, after six years and a production run of 6939 sports cars, the ZR-1 version of the Chevrolet Corvette slipped into the past tense. It was a car that made some grown men pant and others think twice, and exactly where it will fit in automotive history has yet to be screeched and railed over. Certainly Chevy's stats on the car reflect its hilly ride — down in sales volume, up in price — right until that last ZR-1, the 448th copy of the 1995 model, rolled off the assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and straight across the street into the embrace of the National Corvette Museum. The seeds for the ZR-1 were planted in the mid-Eighties. Dave McLellan, the former chief engineer of the Corvette crew, recalls: "We had produced the [redesigned] '84 Corvette, and starting with the '85, Dick Guldstrand and Tommy Morrison and Jim Cook started seriously racing the car in Showroom Stock. We supported that technically at Engineering, and it grew. In those three years that the Corvette was running in SCCA, we learned a huge amount about the car. By '89, there was virtually nothing left untouched in the chassis." In this series, we talk about the C4 ZR1 Corvette. C4 years for the corvette were 1984-1996 model years. The C4 corvette was a game changer for the sports car in it's day. Although not found that appealing at the time, popularity of the C4 corvette is slowly gaining traction as a classic. If you are a C4 enthusiast, you can find a C4 poster in my eBay store. LT5 V-8 was designed by Lotus and built by Mercury Marine, an all-aluminum, four-cam V-8 that was developed from the Lotus Etna concept engine, not a Small Block. It shared the traditional Small Block 4.40-inch bore spacing (after a quick redesign) and used an early form of passive Variable Valve Timing. The 32-valve V-8 breathed through 16 individual intake runners, half of which could be closed off at low loads. When opened, those runners breathed through valves that ran on a far more aggressive cam profile. This allowed the engine to be both torquey and efficient at low-rpms, but powerful at the top. The 2023 Corvette Z06 is the first DOHC V-8 in a Corvette, but the ZR-1 was the only ever installed in the front. And through the ZR-1 broke records, it wasn't the sales success that Chevrolet had hoped for — and there are many very interesting reasons why - culminating in the grudge-match development of the LS-series Small Block. https://www.ebay.com/str/paylessposters - Thanks!