I'd love to tell you that I can make a Camaro handle like a Corvetter, but I can't tell you that. We also mess with Vette's too, and they are just completely different cars. For instance, a C5 Z06 is about 400 pounds lighter, has 12% shorter gearing, IRS (and pretty damned good IRS) a lower Cg, better weight distribution largely due to the transaxle design, and more power.
If you consider all those things, it's not possible to get an f-body to be a Corvette.
That said, I'll also relate to autox results to give you an idea of just how good an f-body can be.
SCCA Solo Nationals 2006 (the last year I ran the Camaro, but plan on bringing it back out for '09).
Winner of ASP is Mike Johnson--a friend and customer in his Z06. Total time over the two courses of 99.825 seconds. I'll add now that Mike is a 3 time National Champion himself and beat me straight up in 2003 in F-stock in our Camaro's, he knows what he's doing. My total time in winning ESP was 101.229. That is a 1.404 second difference running the same courses in cars that run different classes, but have the same preparation rules (Street Prepared, or "SP" classes).
So after over a minute and a half of running, the difference was 1.4 seconds. I think it shows what a Camaro can do, especially when you consider the things I mentioned to start with. The F-body has NO single advantage over the Vette, but the results speak for themselves.
