LS1-SS, LT1-z28, WS6TA beat em all cant beat corvette

azn3000GTRacer · #1 03-09-2004, 08:50 PM

Sup yall, I have a stock 96 3000GT VR4, i beaten all the f-bodys but i just cant seem to beat the corvette. Those things are quick, sure i can take them off the line, after about mid second gear the corvette passes and keeps a good 2 or 3 car length ahead of me.

My best race was on the highway agianst a z28 LT1, i know i shouldnt take a V-8 on the open highway espically mid MPH range. We took off at about a 65mph, i stick it into 3rd he gets a good 3 car lengths ahead once i get the rpm up iam catching up quick hit 4th iam ahead by a car length, i keep fading away and he lets off but i want to see how fast i could go, i wasent paying attention to my speedo and the next thing iam at 170 and STILL GOING STRONG. Then i hit a curve in the highway scary sh!t. Then after some hard braking i slowed down back to highway speeds. I didnt think the stock VR4 could top out it's speedo but iam confident that it can. So when the weather here in IOWA gets better iam gonna get that 180mph picture for yall. If you dont belive me i got the 170 picture, give me a holla and i'll send it to you

Peace out

carrrnuttt · #2 03-09-2004, 09:04 PM

E-Mail me at [email protected]. Title it, "pic for AF", and I'll host the pic for this thread.

2000LS1Z28 · #3 03-09-2004, 09:13 PM

Your car is kinda heavy, whereas a Corvette is light. That would explain you losing to one, especially since the new vettes can pull off low 13 sec. time slips (Sometimes even high 12's). That puts you at somewhat of a disadvantage. A few mods can take care of that though.

StupidBrodie · #4 03-09-2004, 09:48 PM

yeah the 3000GT has a really nice top end... a friend of mine in a modded forumla one (450+ whp) raced a 3000GT dusted him obviously but he said he took his car up to about 140ish and let off and that 3000 blew by him like a bat out of hell easily doing 150+

youngvr4 · #5 03-10-2004, 12:50 AM

you were doing 160 if it said 170, our speedometers are off buy about 10mph at high speed, even at 60.

LoW_KeY · #6 03-10-2004, 09:34 AM

just wait till you run into a brand new vette standard with 500 HP.. then the C6 Z06 is said to have more 550+ course thats another year before that comes out.

the vette I think weighs in just a touch over 3200 lbs not sure about your car I've heard they are a bit heavy so the power to rate ratio goes in his favor.

-The Stig- · #7 03-10-2004, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by LoW_KeY

just wait till you run into a brand new vette standard with 500 HP.. then the C6 Z06 is said to have more 550+ course thats another year before that comes out.

the vette I think weighs in just a touch over 3200 lbs not sure about your car I've heard they are a bit heavy so the power to rate ratio goes in his favor.

C6 is said to only have 400hp in the base model. The new LS2 is supposed to only be 400hp, but its got better heads, more compression, better intake and more displacement than the LS6 which makes 405hp now in the current Z06... Can you say slightly underated???

The C6 Z06 is rumored to get a 427ci LS2 small block power plant which would make 500hp.

Self · #8 03-10-2004, 12:55 PM

Lots more HP and lots less weight than you...Don't expect to beat one with those two factors working against you. C5s will take you easy from a stop...And things just get worse from a roll.

carrrnuttt · #9 03-10-2004, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by RedNeck383

C6 is said to only have 400hp in the base model. The new LS2 is supposed to only be 400hp, but its got better heads, more compression, better intake and more displacement than the LS6 which makes 405hp now in the current Z06... Can you say slightly underated???

The C6 Z06 is rumored to get a 427ci LS2 small block power plant which would make 500hp.

Which reminds me...the Ford GT, rated at 500 at the crank recently dynoed at 565 to the wheels.

Underrating is the wave of the future for fast-ass cars, it seems. Besides insurance, I suspect another reason they underrate them so bad nowadays is to throw-off the competition.

Self · #10 03-10-2004, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by carrrnuttt

Which reminds me...the Ford GT, rated at 500 at the crank recently dynoed at 565 to the wheels.

Underrating is the wave of the future for fast-ass cars, it seems. Besides insurance, I suspect another reason they underrate them so bad nowadays is to throw-off the competition.

THe biggest reason is to leave room for improvement in future models, as well as to bolster the rating of other current models. For example, if they rate the car at 600hp, next year's rendition would have to improve upon that number...A possible, but daunting task. If they rate it at 500hp however, when it is already making more than that; they can simply change little things here and there and say the new model now makes 550hp. They haven't made any amazing technological advances. All they've done is told you how much the car is REALLY making now.

carrrnuttt · #11 03-10-2004, 02:30 PM

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Originally Posted by Self

THe biggest reason is to leave room for improvement in future models, as well as to bolster the rating of other current models. For example, if they rate the car at 600hp, next year's rendition would have to improve upon that number...A possible, but daunting task. If they rate it at 500hp however, when it is already making more than that. They can simply change little things here and there and say the new model now makes 500hp. They haven't made any amazing technological advances. All they've done is told you how much the car is REALLY making now.

Sounds familiar...(SRT-4

)

youngvr4 · #12 03-10-2004, 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Self

C5s will take you easy from a stop...And things just get worse from a roll.

thats a little over exaggerated, a c5 can't take a 96 vr4 from a stop with ease, c5's run average 13.4-3 and they don't have a take off like the vr4, of course it will catch up down the 1/4 somewhere but it will not take it with ease. were talking .1 sec diff in there 1320's.

azn3000GTRacer · #13 03-10-2004, 06:34 PM

Hell no a c5 corvette cant take me off the line. I take anything off the line. Off the line i have beaten a corvette by about 3 car lengths then i shift into second gear then the vette comes up but no even then does the vette pull away hard. He has 2 to 3 car lengths top. ZO6 is another story though. ZO6 has came the closet to me in the off the line accelaration i only had about 1 car length. So for you vette lovers out thier sorry i win in the off the line accelaration.

-The Stig- · #14 03-10-2004, 06:50 PM

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Originally Posted by azn3000GTRacer

So for you vette lovers out thier sorry i win in the off the line accelaration.

Yeah, we know you've got AWD. Most any AWD car owns off the line.

Now days, it's nothing special to hear a person who drives a AWD car say "OOOOoo I beat him off the line!!!". It's what we all would expect from you.

youngvr4 · #15 03-11-2004, 02:17 AM

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Originally Posted by azn3000GTRacer

Hell no a c5 corvette cant take me off the line. I take anything off the line.

you take anything off the line ha, skyline, viper, sti, evo-8.
your not that damn fast, someone maybe needs to blow your doors off for you too learn even your 0-60 is 5.2 that means by second gear a c5 vette will start eating you(with a good driver).

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