Nightly smoke session...

I smoked one of these last night

http://24.123.179.139:54321/spot_c5.jpg

Don't believe me? LT1MAN was in the car with me last night.

No need to be defensive, you have the same powertrain and mods. Good Kill man. Got some details?

John

i was definately in the car, and so was my minature dachshound named 'Hennessey'. after we raced the corvette, my dog barked out the window at them "whos your daddy bitch"

we couldn't figure out if it was stock or not, it was definately a yellow c5, not a z06, but it had some crazy hood on it so who knows. i can never get the good races like my brother does, i always get the fart pipes when he gets the 05 gts and 03 cobras and z06s and c5s and lexus's but he did get smoked by a crossfire

yes formula i know, but it just makes me feel good to know that i smoked the big daddy like that. i mean, it wasn't just a little pull. we raced trhee times. the first time, he jumped me, got about 3 car lengths in front of me, then i started creeping back up on him. then we got caught behind some traffic and some left lane minivan hogs. after we got past them, i pulled up next to him in the left lane, doing about 75 mph or so, and we both hit it at exactly the same time, from about 75 to about 135 or so, i had pulled ahead about two car lengths in front of him before i slowed down. then we slowed down for a minute, exchanged some hand signals and some words out the window. then i guess he wanted to try one more time, because he just took off, and jumped me, and it took me a sec to realize it, then i had to manually downshift with my auto-tranny, by then he was already two car lenghts in front of me, but when i finally hooked, i started catching back up a little, then i had to get off at my exit.

It was a really good race tho.

Wait, so it wasn't a Z06? Why is the picture you posted a Z? You smoked a C5 Corvette...

looks like a c5 in the pic to me.. doesnt the Z06 have a little emblum like the Z28s? besides it doesnt have Z06 rims on it.. has the 2kVette rims..

From the title of this thread I thought you guys were taking e-bongloads
good kill though,I bet that guy you smoked feels like he wasted his money on that vette now

Wait, so it wasn't a Z06? Why is the picture you posted a Z? You smoked a C5 Corvette...

notice the long sloping back window-c5

z06 has short back window-dead giveaway

he prolly saw the vents and thought it was a z06... but yea z06's only come in hard top, plust they have the z06 10-spoke wheels...

yeah i think that guy in the picture must have put those vents on there, they are not normally on a regular vette are they?

it is a c5 in the pic... look again

yeah i think that guy in the picture must have put those vents on there, they are not normally on a regular vette are they?

no not normally... but i am starting to see them kinda often around here on regular c5's... maybe it was an option towards the end of the c5...

the one i raced had the rk5 hood and spoiler. not sure if it was functional though.

oh, I thought the vents only came on Z06's, my bad.

good kill...

anybody run a vette on a road coarse with their camaro. i know we got nothin on those vettes (especially the z06) but maybe someone took one down...

good kill...

anybody run a vette on a road coarse with their camaro. i know we got nothin on those vettes (especially the z06) but maybe someone took one down...

vettes are killer on road courses or autocross

Good kill

good kill...

anybody run a vette on a road coarse with their camaro. i know we got nothin on those vettes (especially the z06) but maybe someone took one down...

I killed a z06 in my 94 z28. but i have a supercharger and lt4 head and intake swap done prior to that. (and some other odds and ends of course)

road or drag. im not surprised that someone can kill a vette straight on, their not designed for that. im talkin has someone tried to tail a vette goin down the windy back roads and been able to keep up.

nope. just on a straightaway. i have seen a c5 and a 98 trans am going at it on a windy mountain road the vette did cut the curves alot better than the t/a, it was fish tailing around the curves. the vette never slipped a tire

all you need is a good suspension

The rear-mounted transmission would help too...

IRS doesnt really hurt the vette either...

Good kill man. Now im not trying to take anything away from it but what ever happen to good old drag racing. Whats this from a roll crap. IT seems that every race that i have read about now adays is from a roll. There is nothing like a true drag race. Thats where its all at. From a dead stop is the only time the playing field is even.

thats how i killed that zo6 was from a red light.

I remmber that story, then the wierdass car club right? lol

haven't had my car dyno'd yet, but i have a feeling with the low end torque that i gained from the headers and the programmer combination, and as much as i pulled on him from the roll, i could have taken him from the line too. but who knows, your right, the only fair race is from a dead stop. just have to wait and see

IRS doesnt really hurt the vette either...
Whats IRS?

independent rear suspension (right?) wouldn't u find that on a crx...

Independent rear suspension = IRS

Hey LS1 how do u like that superchips?

yes, i love it

What kinda stuff does it do. I have the hypertech but i dont like it so i dont use it any more.

yeah from the roll is good only when u have 2 real high top end cars like a ferrari and a viper or some crazy shit like that from a roll even in a z or an ss u will reach your top speed much faster and its null and void. from 0-100, now thats when u see if u are the one rape'en or the raped!

well mine is a custom vin specific tuner. i had to call superchips and give them my vin number, and explain to them all of my mods , headers, exhaust, intake, thermostat, etc... etc... and they write a custom program for your car. whenever you add more mods to your car, you can have them update your program for free. This is really efficient, since instead of generic tuner settings, like the hypertech, it is custom programmed to match your specific setup. i can attest to the fact that you can really feel the difference with this thing.

How much did it cost u cause im getting interested. and where did u get it?

i got mine through a reseller online called http://www.sfxperformance.com cost me 329 + tax (i think) but i definitely think its worth it. i know someone with a hypertech on a 2002 z28 and he says it isn't what its whipped up to be.

jeff
ps your black camaro looks really good.

independent rear suspension (right?) wouldn't find that on a crx...

Well you're half right. :eek7:

The 1st-gen crx (84-87) uses a torsion-beam front setup with a solid beam axle in the rear.

The 2nd-gen crx (88-91) uses double wishbones in the front and has a multi-link independent rear setup.

Guess its a good thing I got the 2nd gen crx then.

Thanks man ur car looks sweet too, i will look into the programmer. Yea the HPP3 sucked in my car and now with the headers it will just mess me up even worse. I don't know my friends TA ran 4 tenths quiker with the HPP3 and i slowed down so maybe its just my car.

Good kill man. Now im not trying to take anything away from it but what ever happen to good old drag racing. Whats this from a roll crap. IT seems that every race that i have read about now adays is from a roll. There is nothing like a true drag race. Thats where its all at. From a dead stop is the only time the playing field is even.

its kinda hard to get someone to STOP on the interstate to race

Like i said i wasn't knocking his kill. I was simply asking in general. Cause all i see is races from a roll.

To be completely honest I hate this new from a roll trend too. You always here people say we raced twice once from the line and then from a roll. What the hell, if you can take them off the line and pass them and stay past them. I find that a better race but like was said on highways/parkways, thats not a option.

i like both, from a roll has its advantages, because that's real street racing, like the old days. but i serioiusly doubt that corvette would have taken me from the line.

KC.. i remember tacoma's story too.. with the crazy car club thing at like the airfield or somethin?

KC.. i remember tacoma's story too.. with the crazy car club thing at like the airfield or somethin?

i went to that to and it sucked. they just stood around staring at thier vettes. i left and went and hung out with my buddies. but i thought the dude in the vette was going to whip my ass when he pulled into that gas station behind me.

i thought real street racing was two greasers in flamed painted cars linning them up on some dark ass road and some chick standing between them dropping a scarf or some gay shit like that, correct me if im wrong because i wasnt there lol

i went there and i thought they would be races and stuff but i thought wrong. the only action that was going one was a few mustang owners were doing doughnuts and trying to get a race from a vette.

i thought real street racing was two greasers in flamed painted cars linning them up on some dark ass road and some chick standing between them dropping a scarf or some gay shit like that, correct me if im wrong because i wasnt there lol

its one greaser and one prep, then afterwords they rumble.

"stay golden johnny"

i like both, from a roll has its advantages, because that's real street racing, like the old days. but i serioiusly doubt that corvette would have taken me from the line.
Thats real street racing? Like the old days?. I'm lost have you never heard or seen how they dragged in the old days?. Unless your taking about a couple of months ago as the old days. No one use to street race like that. 2 cars would line up. A person would stand in the center and drop a whote flag or there hands and they would take off from the line. There were no do over's from a roll. Who ever won from the line, Won thats all but I think you could have taken the Vette from the line anyway..

John

hooked on phonics worked for me...

hooked on phonics worked for me...
More like hooked on crack!.:loser:

I think it might have been a typo John.

Most likely.

lmao, yeah i thought it went like i said 2 guys+one dark road+one hottie with a white hankie=real street race from a stand still.

pretty much, but they did it during the day too. Now that was racing. Not this racing from going 30 or 60 MPH already. Were is the skill in that?. You already have traction thats just mashing the gas pedal.

Exactly what i mean theres no skill involved.

Exactly what i mean theres no skill involved.

that is true, but if you think about it, then that's the perfect way to see which car has it better... not that i perfer it... but i mean if you don't want skill to be involved, just to see which car is better, then a roll could be nice...

that is true, but if you think about it, then that's the perfect way to see which car has it better... not that i perfer it... but i mean if you don't want skill to be involved, just to see which car is better, then a roll could be nice...
Cars accelerate more freely and faster from a idle than a preset RPM. Your gearing at that speed gives you more of a advantage than power(for the most part) from a roll.

John