This is why I sold my Jeep...
03-18-2005, 06:52 PM
#31
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Re: This is why I sold my Jeep...
http://www.familycar.com/RoadTests/CorvetteZ06/ Couple of eight
second C4s: http://www.challengevideos.com/
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
> > Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
> > http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
> > http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
> > BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
> > shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
> > until crawl into your stock Vette:
> > http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > "Zorin Inc." wrote:
> >>
> >> These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
> >> same
> >> articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
> >>
> >> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
> >>
> >> Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
> >>
> >> '97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
> >> '01 WJ "Limited"
> >> '95 C4 "30,000 miles"
second C4s: http://www.challengevideos.com/
God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
> > Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
> > http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
> > http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
> > BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
> > shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
> > until crawl into your stock Vette:
> > http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
> > God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
> > mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
> >
> > "Zorin Inc." wrote:
> >>
> >> These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
> >> same
> >> articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
> >>
> >> http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
> >>
> >> Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
> >>
> >> '97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
> >> '01 WJ "Limited"
> >> '95 C4 "30,000 miles"
03-20-2005, 06:43 PM
#32
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Re: This is why I sold my Jeep...
I can top that, when I first got my truck back on the road the
suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over
a shadow!
Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45
year old truck that it is.
Jeff DeWitt
Zorin Inc. wrote:
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
>
>> Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
>>http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
>>http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
>> BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
>>shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
>>until crawl into your stock Vette:
>>http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
>> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
>>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>>
>>"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>>
>>>These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
>>>same
>>>articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
>>>
>>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
>>>
>>>Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
>>>
>>>'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
>>>'01 WJ "Limited"
>>>'95 C4 "30,000 miles"
>
>
>
suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over
a shadow!
Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45
year old truck that it is.
Jeff DeWitt
Zorin Inc. wrote:
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
>
>> Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
>>http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
>>http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
>> BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
>>shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
>>until crawl into your stock Vette:
>>http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
>> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
>>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>>
>>"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>>
>>>These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
>>>same
>>>articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
>>>
>>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
>>>
>>>Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
>>>
>>>'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
>>>'01 WJ "Limited"
>>>'95 C4 "30,000 miles"
>
>
>
03-20-2005, 06:43 PM
#33
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Re: This is why I sold my Jeep...
I can top that, when I first got my truck back on the road the
suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over
a shadow!
Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45
year old truck that it is.
Jeff DeWitt
Zorin Inc. wrote:
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
>
>> Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
>>http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
>>http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
>> BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
>>shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
>>until crawl into your stock Vette:
>>http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
>> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
>>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>>
>>"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>>
>>>These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
>>>same
>>>articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
>>>
>>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
>>>
>>>Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
>>>
>>>'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
>>>'01 WJ "Limited"
>>>'95 C4 "30,000 miles"
>
>
>
suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over
a shadow!
Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45
year old truck that it is.
Jeff DeWitt
Zorin Inc. wrote:
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
>
>> Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
>>http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
>>http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
>> BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
>>shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
>>until crawl into your stock Vette:
>>http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
>> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
>>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>>
>>"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>>
>>>These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
>>>same
>>>articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
>>>
>>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
>>>
>>>Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
>>>
>>>'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
>>>'01 WJ "Limited"
>>>'95 C4 "30,000 miles"
>
>
>
03-20-2005, 06:43 PM
#34
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Posts: n/a
Re: This is why I sold my Jeep...
I can top that, when I first got my truck back on the road the
suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over
a shadow!
Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45
year old truck that it is.
Jeff DeWitt
Zorin Inc. wrote:
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
>
>> Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
>>http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
>>http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
>> BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
>>shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
>>until crawl into your stock Vette:
>>http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
>> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
>>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>>
>>"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>>
>>>These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
>>>same
>>>articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
>>>
>>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
>>>
>>>Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
>>>
>>>'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
>>>'01 WJ "Limited"
>>>'95 C4 "30,000 miles"
>
>
>
suspension was so stiff I SWEAR I could feel the bump when I drove over
a shadow!
Fortunaly it's losened up quite a bit, but it still rides like the 45
year old truck that it is.
Jeff DeWitt
Zorin Inc. wrote:
> The ride is comparable to strapping a steel plate to your ***, and having
> someone hit it with a sledge hammer. That's what they call performance
> handling! lol. The ride on a TJ or XJ os NO WHERE NEAR as stiff a ride as
> the vette. And mine is a '95, about half as stiff a suspension as the C4
> had when they came out in '84. If I drive over a cigarette butt I CAN FEEL
> IT!! hahahaha.
>
> Jim "My Aching ***" Zorin
>
> BTW, the car was originally bought by a 60 year old man who always wanted
> one (but waited too long), he drove it very little, kept it garaged, and
> decided when he was 67 that he couldn't get in and out of it on his own
> anymore, he sold it to the dealership at 20,000 miles. The dealership used
> it for a loaner when people brought their newer C5's in for repair. The
> dealership put another 10,000 on it before selling it to me. I talked to
> the guy (who is now 70) and he misses it, hahahaha too bad. The interior
> looks brand new, the body is done, I have the brakes and rotors to do (C5
> big brake going on), GM hot cam kit going in (cam & roller rockers $500),
> and better flowing exhaust with electric cutouts. Should smoke the ZR1 when
> it's finished (like these things are ever "finished").
>
> "L.W. ("ßill") ------ III" <----------@***.net> wrote in message
> news:423B3069.40A5CB2F@***.net...
>
>> Replace? They are for different sports, one is for hill climbing:
>>http://www.----------.com/pismo,htm and one is for street:
>>http://www.----------.com/thunderb.htm
>> BTW would you tell some of these Wannabees that think they have a
>>shock problem with their TJs, that they don't know what a rough ride is
>>until crawl into your stock Vette:
>>http://us.f2.yahoofs.com/users/41296...tSzOCB4eg2I7F4
>> God Bless America, ßill O|||||||O
>>mailto:-------------------- http://www.----------.com/
>>
>>"Zorin Inc." wrote:
>>
>>>These are the pics of the Jeep replacement, it doesn't quite have the
>>>same
>>>articulation but it sure does have more power! ;)
>>>
>>>http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mshrmstmp/my_photos
>>>
>>>Jim "zooomzooom" Zorin
>>>
>>>'97 ZJ "Mud Slinger"
>>>'01 WJ "Limited"
>>>'95 C4 "30,000 miles"
>
>
>
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