Small snippet, but still pretty neat:

http://www.caranddriver.com/features...yphoon-feature

 

The Syclone is much harder to find than the FD and the ZR-1, especially unmodded. And they are incredibly capable engines for straight line power and drag racing. They are turbo AWD 4.3L and very easy to tune because all the GM computers can be easily reprogrammed. In some ways it's a Grand National in AWD truck form.

GM put out a notorious TSB to dealerships soon after the Syclone/Typhoon came out. It explained to how to spot modifications to technicians. This is long before people could post drag times on internet car forums...

 

I get paid to put this stuff online at C/D, so I knew this was coming a few weeks ago...

One of the guys I work with has a low-mile, bone stock Syclone. It's hot.

 

Of course its red - the single best color for the FD.

 

Sweet...nice to see the FD with classics like the ZR1 and the Syclone. Good company.

 

I don't think it was much competition, those old vettes were quick, but handled horribly. And the cyclone idk what they were thinking putting that in there.

 

"...proved to be too extreme and too expensive."

 

basically means it was too hard for people to understand the rotary, and expensive when they blew their motors

 

Actually, the magazine itself has a CYM as the picture. I am a subsriber and was pleased to see they put a picture of an FD in there..

 

A Syclone is a far better platform in a straight line than the old ZR-1's or a street FD. Of course that's all it's really good for, and it's pretty ugly, but GM automatic tranny + AWD + factory turbo = killer drag racing potential.

 

FD curves truly are timeless.....the C4 looks like a barge

 

What appeals to you about the old ZR-1?

 

Right behind The CYM

 

Yeah, regardless of how the ZR-1 looks that thing sure felt fast. I used to work with a troglodyte who had a nice ZR-1. It pinned me back in the seat the way no other American V-8 ever did.

 

And right behine Batmobile Black for both

 

Clearly you've never been in a C6 Z06 then.

 

1) lots of v8s on ebay probably 20% of the FDs listed have v8s. The more v8s people drop in this car the fewer clean unharmed rotaries to choose from.

2) as gordon often points out the bar bell effect is becoming more and more pronounced because the clean low mileage cars are at 20k and the beat cars are at 8k. So with lots of sub 10k beat up FDs going to lower income individuals who will not be able to afford the up keep those cars will either be parted or destroyed leaving fewer and fewer available. I seriously believe in 10 years the low mileage well cared for FDs will be worth 30k plus. Of any car developed in the last 20 years I say the FD has the best chance of becoming the next big time collector.

3) The rotary engine may die out all together and it's a very cool engine. The FD would be a great example of what used to be the rotary

Probably lots of other reasons or arguments that would justify this car as a collector so keep your FDs nice and clean because you never know it might be a decent investment and also because it's just fun owning a cool car

 

 

made my day, thanks!

 

Perhaps, but only low mileage examples, less than 30k. How many of those are left in the U.S.? Maybe 50? Full off restorations may also bring a good sum, but very few people restore these cars they right way, plenty of hack jobs and cheap re-sprays

 

I'm thinking big like 1967 mustang fast back collectable

"plenty of hack jobs" exactly hence the ever increasing value and collector status of the well kept ones.

What's great is because this is such a cool car there are still plenty of low mileage garage queens left but this # will of course continue to dwindle which will of course increase the value of the well kept low mileage and restored cars. There are probably 50 currently for sale with 50k or less miles and 100s more in peoples garages.

 

And if the garage queens ever do come out of hiding, Fritz Rotary Inc is waiting on EBay, ready to snap them up like a Gaboon Viper grabbing a tasy snack

 

I'm much more advanced than that. Think the predator movie

 

Ah but I was referring to the 500hp LS7 engine in the C6 which also has a 7000rpm redline. I am well aware of the 405hp LS6, as I've driven a C5 Z06. There's really no comparison between the C6 Z06 and earlier models. Everything is better about the C6 cars, especially the interior.

 

I encourage you to test drive a C6 Z06. You won't be disappointed. The '06 models still cost in the high 40's for a good condition unmodded one (I think they were in the mid 60's new).