powerful race cars. But
this ZR1 is designed to run on the street with the A/C on and all the creature
comforts of a stock ZR1. I mean, the car just idles around town. I could send
my wife down to the grocery store for a quart of milk and it runs just like
a stock ZR1. Thats how docile it is when its not on the boost."
About
a year and a half ago, Dehnert, who lives in Austin, Texas, took his low-mileage
ZR1 to John Lingenfelter in Decatur, Indiana, for the installation of a twin-turbo
system. Paul has always favored the LT5 DOHC engine. "The thing I like
about the ZR1 is the engineering uniqueness, the fact it is a Lotus-designed
engine built by Mercury Marine. The engineering is phenomenal."
Dehnert
also knew GM built a twin-turbo LT5 because there is