Just bought the wife an 02' Z-28, it's an automatic and I did about 3 free mods and put a cut out on it and it ran a 13.17 @ 104 into a head wind. That is very impressive. I have an 05' Gt with about 2500 dollars into it and I will be surprised if it runs anywhere near my wifes car. The LS1 is a bad car and I know for a fact that if you want to run with them your going to have to either dig deep in your wallet or come up with a sick combo to run next to them. Don't get me wrong.... I want to pull on them just as bad as the rest of you but it is going to be tough. That's the difference between a pushrod and modular. As well as 1.1 L more. But one thing I can say that I love about the 02 is the throttle response. Man I wish they would have stayed with the throttle linkage instead of that fly by wire crap. :damnit: