trevor90

it's definitely impressive. dont see myself going back to a 4 door saloon tho. Hopefully i;ll run into one soon.

trevor90

haha,. really? which car did the bolt on zr1 beat?

David4359

BooSSted

Good stuff man great wins vs some fast cars!

trevor90

u have the vid?

FastestBusaAround

Brooks...and not much under a million can beat a stock 720s in a straight line, except maybe an H2R, but certainly nothing in its class can, not Ferrari, not Lamborghini, nothing American, or German.

I'd hardly call his other cars, or the other cars that race his 720s, "slow". Love to see a video of the bolt-on ZR1 that you say beat his 720s...

I'm truly not a 720s fan...but I have to give credit where its due.

And nice run by the way!

23/C8Z

NO... a MANUAL Z06 is not faster at or from any point than the A8... look at the gear ratios.. this has been beaten to death... unless on a prolonged track where the Auto is prone to overheat would the Manual be faster...

sometimes the manual fanatics can't stand the fact that the Auto trans cars are just faster now? let it go bro....

^^^^^^ agree with everything said and i would love to see the video of his 720 getting beat... there are plenty of faster cars but they are more than 3x as much as the 720.. car is insane.

Z0HS1CK

From a roll, a manual will be faster.

I am looking at the gear ratios lol. You A8 guys fall flat after 4th gear. A brick wall.

In the 1/4, or off a stop, yes the A8 is faster. Not off a roll. More power loss through the drivetrain and the terrible gearing, well not even terrible gearing but the odd gearing in which you guys fall flat after 4th gear will make the manual continue on.

Why do you auto guys think that just because you are faster in the 1/4 than your manual counterpart, that you're faster everywhere else forever all the time forever forever forever?

lol let it go bro.

Until GM puts a dual clutch, the A8 is a failed unit unless used strictly for 1/4.

3 Z06ZR1

We agree on something! from the dig you want the Auto but from the roll you want the M7 bring on your A8's for roll races.
Only A8 owners say that stuff in fact the A8 is lame compared the M7 on roll races

DRLC5

I have seen his 720s get beat on his videos. He ran the 720s on this post and was beat by a couple of tenths I believe. What bolt on ZR1? Was it white? I saw a bolt on ZR1 get beat on Youtube?

DRLC5

https://youtu.be/xaRqPs5WO1I

https://youtu.be/XtCwVvsXJag
https://youtu.be/b0C__4wUkd8

https://youtu.be/5OLQclUav-M

Mikec7z

while i doubt that is the fastest mclaren on earth, either way, a 720 is a mean machine, they ruin my car, as do the modded 570s for that matter... so a modded 720 is no joke at all. That's a good kill for sure.

David4359

David4359

Mikec7z

i agree with all that you said,

however, i know a lot of people over the years who will mod a car, and not give 2 cares to take it to a drag strip. I knew people back in 01 with 1000hp lambos, before UGR ever existed, and those people never took their lambo to a drag strip to show off.

My point is simply... that odds are, there is a mclaren making 1000+hp somewhere, and if i were a betting man, i would say there are at least 5 or more that do.

There are some people in this world who like to play possum. I am one of them. I have never had a vette at a racetrack to compete or post a time... in my life.

A lot of us who upgrade to top end HP, dont want to break transmissions and clutches and rear diffs... so we just mod our cars and see what other possums we can find in day to day activity, and then we compete.

Few things bring me more pleasure than to bump into someone who has a much more expensive car than myself, who thinks they can drive, and then i leave them behind through a series of high speed curves. Makes them realize money cant buy skill, and their fast car isnt so fast when they are the driver.

David4359

23/C8Z

yep. I'm sure the OPs car in M7 form would be faster than the A8.. idk why I even type it. U must like torture. The M7 does not and Has not beaten the A8 in this car from any speed in a roll race.

just for fun I'll post this quote.

- Tadge.....


so where is the M7's advantage over the A8 anywhere from any speed outside of not overheating on a roadcourse if run to the max? The answer is right there. There is none... not even to factor in your shift speed and consistency..

get out of the mindset that because you move a shifter yourself to make the car go into a specific gear it makes your choice the faster one. Some may enjoy it more, I did when I was 19... then the novelty wore off..if my z06 was a manual I would never drive it with jersey shore traffic. I would hate this car. Regardless, the manual is more engaging but for flat out speed the A8 is the way to go.


Matter of fact, this started with the A6 in the C6...

David4359

Mikec7z

so i know cars pretty well myself, and in south florida in 2001, i had a 550hp car and thought i was a king. That is until, a person who said their lambo had 1000 hp during a lunch meeting... proceeded to pass me while i was traveling at 180mph one evening, as they were going 220, and made me feel like i was sitting still.

This 1000hp lambo, did not exist on the internet, there was no package, there was no shop, he himself was a very sharp fellow, had a lot of money, and the car was a one off. He took an SV or VT, whatever the awd version was, and he made it 2wd because the front end linkage could not support the HP, and he hated he idea it might mess up his steering if something in the front driveline failed.

The thing to understand is, at the end of the day, the logo of the car does not matter. You have an engine.. you make sure its components are forged, and you put larger turbos on it, and you find someone who can tune the thing.

Again, if I were betting money, i would bet my life savings, there is a mclaren 720 let alone a 570, on this planet, that is making over 1000hp, and the owner of the car takes great pleasure in making people eat their words, as they are "confident" they can beat the person in a race, and then when the race begins, the mclaren smokes everyone else.

I might even go so far as to say, the person who had the lambo in my story, most likely has this 1000+hp mclaren that i speak of.

For certain people, it is a hobby, a game, a sense of accomplishment, that they beat all the big shops to the prize, and then, they keep it for themselves, because at the end of the day, they dont want to be famous, and a famous car, brings fame, to its owner.

There are people in this world who like to remain unknown and play possum.

David4359