Burnin4

A good friend of mine are new to the corvette community, and have had a nice rivalry dating back to our previous cars, 500whp+ STi's. About 7 months ago, we both sold our suby's and bought 08 vettes, and we couldnt be happier .

My car is an 08 Z with american racing headers/hi flow x pipe, killerbee cai/vette air, ported intake manifold/tb, dyno tune, stock tires. My numbers were 465/431 with kb/vette air + tune before the headers/ported intake mani/tb were installed. My car was retuned but the dyno was having voltage issues, couldnt get an accurate reading...I'm guessing 490's/450 range.

His vette is an 08 Z51/MN6, american racing headers/off road x pipe , and an ecs paxton novi kit, dyno tune, stock tires, 520whp/475tq.

Neither one of us are great corvette drivers, although I have a little more experience than my buddy. I am used to cutting 1.6x 60ft and running 10's in my suby, but cant manage anything better than a 2.0 on my oem tires.

anyway, here's a few vids and pics from today, enjoy

btw, you cant hear my z over his off road x pipe .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hfyVpGO0NU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEip5mS75_8





my best pass was 11.68 at 125 with a 2.1 60ft, his best was a 12.0 at 124 with a 2.0 60ft. We both know there is a lot more potential in our cars, but we had a great time keeping our rivalry going.

Randy@RaginRacin

Won't be much competition to you once that Lethal Cam is in!!!!! LOL. Nice vids and nice Vettes. I like that blue a lot.

'06 Quicksilver Z06

12.0 @ 124mph with 520RWHP in that supercharged '08 C6. Just goes to show that getting the power to the ground is so important.

Burnin4

thanks! I'm just waiting on my rockers, then the lethal z cam is going in either this week or next. do you see any reason why i wont gain 5mph with a cam upgrade? I trapped 98mph in the 8th and 125mph in the qtr, hoping for low 100's/low 130's.

Randy@RaginRacin

You should trap at least 130.

Les

Very, very

Both cars look and sound sweet. He deserves respect for running that close with you.

Burnin4

one night while we were in mexico we went from 45-145, stayed door to door the entire way. at the time, I had an intake and tune, 465/431, but now have headers, ported intake manifold/tb.

1.8t

Do you happen to know what the DA was? MMP usually isn't that fast unless you catch it during some great weather.

thegame

Did ECS install and tune your friends set up and does he have the alky kit ? Awesome cars both of you by the way!!

Burnin4

i have no idea, but the weather was excellent. it was low 80's and the track was sticky. I'll try to find the DA and report back.

Burnin4

Thanks! a local shop in Pensacola called XXX Motorsports handled the install and tune, his car made 520/475 in mid summer heat, 8psi.

Burnin4

hookay, after searching for a minute, i found this handy tool on dragtimes.com...
http://www.dragtimes.com/da-density-...calculator.php

160ft above sea level, 84.2 degrees, 30.16 barometric pressure, 35% humidity, and the DA was 1716ft. my "corrected et/mph" is 11.45 at 127mph, haha!

2SINISTER

Sounds like you all had a good time.

That DA Calculator is pretty cool. It is now bookmarked.

SharkbyteLT4

looking at the trap speeds, should be a pretty close run should you do battle on the highway

Burnin4

his car was a little stronger than mine at the time, but he never gained anymore than a fender at anytime during the run. I think I'll pull him by 1+ cars if we do it again, judging from the feel of my headers, ported intake manifold/tb + retune.

Les

Likewise

thegame

He should get an alky kit and blower cam to even things up a bit!!! Sounds like a fun rivalry. What will you do if he forges the LS3 and turns up the boost

Burnin4

well, my lethal z cam goes in this/next week, just waiting on a set of rockers, everything else is on the dining room table ready to go, haha!

He's not going to run alky, he had it on his sti and doesnt want to mess with the pro's/con's again. however, he is already thinking about a blower cam, which would make things interesting again.

there was basically a .25 - .5 benefit to me with roughly the same mph between the 2 cars on 4 clean pass's (aside from both of our crappy 60's). Once the cam goes in it will get ugly, but I hope he installs a blower cam to keep things interesting.

thegame

Thats great!! Friendly rivalries are very fun!! My brother had a blown Saleen Mustang that I use to mess with. I miss that car

1.8t

Whats odd is that I ran 124mph at the same track with similar DA (+1680' in my case) with 477whp/437wtq. I thought a blown LS3 would rip me a new one @ 520whp/470wtq. Matter of fact, for an LS3, those numbers seem very low considering the mods/boost level. He should be closer to 600whp.