mbroadway

I have a video link on my blog of a yellow ZR1 on the autobahn. It's hard to tell because the camera is jiggly, but the speedometer looks like it's at about 310. Maybe that's kph?

Here's a link if you want to view it.

http://americandreamcar.blogspot.com

mbroadway

The video player is at the bottom.
There are about five or six videos on it, so scroll through (there are arrows on the sides in the middle) until you see a yellow Vette on a lift. That's the one.

Cobra4B

It's KPH man.

black_z

Ya reckon?!

phantasms

Please tell me with was just an attempt to get us to your blog and you didn't actually think it could possibly be MPH. Please.

Bigbucks

You're right, it was going 300 mph....

Bulitt

Allegedly, thats the 2011 test mule with the scram jet engine. It also runs on peanut oil and gets 120 miles per gallon. Probably could run over 400 if they would put a real race car driver in the seat and not an engineer...

teking

Ummm .. ya think. And no I didn't go to your blog.

Bigbucks

Love your Avatar...

Bronzevette85

use your common sense.

GeorgeSSS

This is America. It's OK to dream.

ZRick

300 mph sounds crazy but look what Lingenfelter advertises:

http://www.lingenfelter.com/Lingenfe...06ZO6TTBGB.htm

danl72

DJackman

At 2,000HP, which the ZR1 needs to go 300MPH, I dont think the tires and body panels will hold at that speed. Cant imagine where the roof is going to land.

YELLOHHH

You write a blog about sports cars, then wonder if a production car can go 300 mph? Seriously? Man, the web has really done a number on us. No one needs credentials. Everyone is an "expert".

breakskeet

It takes a dragster 5000 hp to go over 300mph. Granted that's acceleration in a quarter mile, but they only gain about 60 to 70 mph in the last 1/8 mile due to wind resistance. I don't think at 1300 hp a vette would even come close. I don't care what you can calculate, real world it's not possible. The wind resistance would almost be impossible to overcome. Not to mention all the parts that would be flying off or the car getting airborne!

cheers!

phantasms

It's all about the calculations my friend. Always. That 5000hp is all about the acceleration. If the drag car can get to 300mph in 5 seconds with 5000hp I bet with 2000hp it can get there in a minute. And I bet that Lingenfelter car with no gigantic wing on the back can get to 300mph with proper gearing and a long track.

breakskeet

Sorry, don't buy it. Wind resistance is too much for this car. They say they have 1300 hp not 2000. What looks good on paper mathematically doesn't always workout like you planned. You can built a track around the earth at the equator and it won't be long enough. Look at the ZR1 with 638 hp and it struggled to get to 205. Another 600 hp won't get you to 300 and I seriously doubt that a total of 2000 would do it either. Just because it's in print doesn't make it true. And what tire are you going to make this run with?

vette-oholic

good questions about how many HP it would take to get to 300 mph.

anyone know the TOP speed for any corvette? and how much HP it had?

vette-oholic

just found this website and was looking at the LT2 69 vette...
could that really be a stock 1/4 mile ET (10.6 @ 132) ?

http://www.autofacts.ca/classics/fast.htm