Wow, where to start after having picked up my Lightning Blue GT 350 this past weekend! I'll post more of an initial driving impression thread once I've been able to put some miles on it. In the meantime, here are some other initial thoughts!
Most of my neighbors stopped by and checked it out, was surprised that they all liked the white OTT Stripes and, while I was dead set on removing them, they are growing on me and I'll leave them on for now. The engine is awesome, just cant say enough about the sound and feel of it. Body gaps are not the best (alignment wise) and I may take it to a body shop for adjustment. In particular, the right rear bumper fascia has a 1/4" gap where it meets the taillight housing. Surprised the plant didn't catch/fix it before shipping. Really like the Recaros, very comfortable and easy to find a good driving position. One thing that would be nice is adjustable thigh support but good overall. Clutch pedal action is nice! Feels just right to me, not too light and certainly not too heavy. Transmission feels precise and you can "snick" through the gears easily. HUD Shift Indicator is great and helps to keep it at 4K or under. Easy to go fast in this car, jumped on the freeway and was going much faster than I thought. Steering feels very solid and this car goes where you point it. You can definitely feel the wider tires up front and that's OK, makes me smile as the car always feels ready to "go"! Felt some tramlining, but again not bad. Sync 3 is great, very similar to my 2016 KR with Siri functionality, etc. Audio needs help, I was shocked at how cheesy the rear deck speakers are...didn't realize they made speaker magnets so small
. Hard to tell if there is wind noise at freeway speeds as the engine sounds so awesome, you would notice it nor care anyway.
Spent a couple of hours yesterday installing the front splitter. All I can say is it was more of a project than I anticipated, but everything is on tight and looks good. If you are going to do this yourself, use a lift as crawling around under the front end on the garage floor gets tedious real fast. Speaking of the splitter, this car is low, low, low in front and scrapes even when you are being careful with it. going to install the ZL1 splitter washers tonight. Will be lower, and scrape easier, but at least I'll just be scraping the washers not the splitter assembly. Installed the Red Line hood struts last night and removed them. Even though I ran them through roughly 40 compression cycles (each) they were VERY stiff and trying to close the hood made me think I was going to bend it.
Disappointed as I've had excellent luck with the RLT struts in the past, and will be looking for another solution to the prop rod. Even in quiet mode, it's going to be hard to not bother the neighbors on early morning start ups...speaking of which cold start up is loud (I love it) but kept the garage door closed till rpms dropped.
Going to get out and drive it more this afternoon in the canyons, more to come...
