Rogillio

Corvette_Ed

In my 00 C5 coupe I got up to 165. In my 08 vert I've had it up to 150.

In Mexico of course...

Dano523

Basic run down, just under a 1/4 mile in about 8~9 seconds from a dead stop

Hence basic break down goes like this from standing start.

1/4" mile about 120mpg on the street with no road/track prep,
1 mile mark should have you about 160mph
1 1/2 mark will have car at it's max the car will do to a clean top end pull and should be just shy of 200mph, unless you have a z06 or zr1 while should have just over 200mps at that mark instead.
Dead on the brakes from the 1 1/2 mile point clean max speed pull, down to Dead stop before you hit the 2 mile mark.

As for my speeds in the vet, yes on taking it to over 200mps, and since I high speed road course, about 175mph down the end of straight each lap as well (standard high speed track has the tight sections about 60mph for your slowest speeds, and 175'ish at the end of the straights for the max speeds.


As for the loose at speeds, welcome to the stock vets, since they have lift at speeds and not down force instead. It's not until you get into a race prep vets like the T1's that you in a vet that has down-force isntead.
To note here, if you have added a different rear spoiler to the car, and not added the needed front and side splitters to balance out the aerodynamic on the car, the car is going to get really strange at higher speeds as well. Hence have a base model and stuck only a Zr1 type rear spoiler on the car, at high speeds since you have only decrease slightly less lift on the back end, the front end ends ups with more lift isntead.

So the rear ZR1 larger rear spoiler, goes hand and hand with it's front and side splilters to balance the front to back aerodynamic..

HOXXOH

A bone stock LS3 M6 with a good driver can hit 100 in about 10 seconds and a 1/4 mile about another 2.3 seconds at 115 mph.
The car is extremely stable to well beyond 150, but 180 has been my highest.

pokerpro

If you can go from 0 - 100 - 0 in 17 seconds or less then that's saying something!

Vet Interested

150

Dano523

In about 17 seconds from a standing stop in a C6, your talking up to 200mph, and back down to a complete stop instead. So up to 100 and back down, about 11 second instead,

Hell, truth is very few Vet owners have every red line their vet in 5 gears, and would dare to say, less than 15% of C6 owners have red-line the car in 4th gears instead.

As for reving out in 6th, it just not going to happen on any stock vet. Top gearing to rev out 6th is about 226mph, but the most your going to ring out of 6th gear is about 200mph; hence when you run out of the needed power to push through the wind faster that now has become thick as mud your trying to push again instead.

Grand Sport Jim

163 and felt solid as a rock. I've done in the 140's several times. Usually hit 115 to 120 every time I'm on the highway.....just for a few seconds at a time. Never if I see anyone else on the highway and never at night...deer are everywhere. I've accepted a few challenges but usually show my stuff and get back down to a reasonable speed. Had a guy in a Porsche pull ahead of me last spring. We stayed neck and neck to 140. He slowed back down to let me catch up and gave me the thumbs up. Felt good. Real gent....half my age.

dryadsdad

Are you guys posting indicated or true? I have no idea the accuracy of the factory speedo's other than sure that they are optimistic.

HOXXOH

Short of a few $K for special hi-tech equipment, indicated is close enough for me. My Garmin read 173 when the speedometer read 175, so two sources using different methods can't be too far off of "true".

dryadsdad

I'm surprised at the closeness. I'd think 140 indicated is about 125 true given general speedo accuracy.

unclecookie

That may have been true in the days of mechanical speedometers, although I doubt they were off by that much. But since the newer cars have speed sensors for the speedo, I would imagine they are fairly accurate.

windyC6

0 to 200 MPH in a C-6 Corvette in 17 seconds ???? Someone needs to put the pipe down and take a cold shower !!!!!......

jackhall99

Thank you! That guy is some kid in his mom's basement. LOL

jackhall99

Your comment (above), and another made in a prior post where you stated ".... , just under a 1/4 mile in about 8~9 seconds from a dead stop" made me laugh my butt off. Seriously? You can post this stuff?

Corvette_Ed

You do realize that the picture in that post is of a ZR1 right? And that the ZR1 is supercharged?

jackhall99

I know it's a ZR1, and I have several friends that own them, and several track them in high speed events. If you do your own research, you'll see how damned funny his statements are. However, to save you time, a recorded 0 - 180 in just about 30 seconds is the norm. To attain 200 takes about 43 seconds. Then of course the car has to be hauled down to zero again.

msledge50

I was thinking the same thing,I thought this post was a joke at first when I read that.Then I said wow I must of brought the wrong car.

windyC6

YUP!! I knew 0 - 200 in 17 seconds was comical even for a S/C ZR-1. And your time frames look fairly accurate from a common sense point of view. Seems like the laws of physics would dictate that the final 50 MPH would eat up probably 50% of the total time needed just as a wild guess. But thats the beauty of Corvette Forum. On paper any of us can go from 0 - 200 in any amount of time we choose.....LOL....

jackhall99

Yep, the laws of physics come into play, even tougher to overcome than you pegged (which was a good stab). 0-100 takes 7 seconds, a tenth less? To hit 150 takes a tick under 16 seconds. Then 200 takes another 27 whopping seconds.