Corey Henderson
isnt your usual ZR-1 pilot. At least, we dont think many drivers
out there build up LT5s, which requires special tools to degree in those four
overhead camshafts.
This is exactly what Corey feared when he bought his 91
ZR-1 in the summer of 1997. Then 22 and reverent of the "foreign"
DOHC V8, he explained, "When I bought that car, I vowed I would never
do anything to it because the engine was entirely too complex and too expensive
to work on."
Already, Corey was next to ecstatic with his Zs quickness
in the quarter-mile - 12.78 @ 112.2 mph. The 91 had about 54,000 miles
and had been modified with a big Doug Rippie aluminum radiator, Borla exhaust,
and 4.10:1 Richmond gears.
Then after a year, discontent set