Vette does 'ok' racin, too.

[JOACH1M]

bit off topic, but doesn't a corvette have the fastest 0-60 time?

Lingenfelter if i remember right...

[Seanaldinho]

bit off topic, but doesn't a corvette have the fastest 0-60 time?

Lingenfelter if i remember right...

The corvette is in the mid 3's right? Wiki said 3.8

I believe the arial atom is in the high 2's. Wiki said 2.8

[RTHolmes]

The ProDrive Ferrari team, then later the ProDrive Aston team, were very stiff competition, beating the C6R Corvettes at Sebring and the Petit at RA a few years.

Prodrive are based about 20m north of me. their 550 maranello is one of my fav racing cars, a pretty crazy idea and they made it work very well. incredible sound, almost like an old F1 car.

[JOACH1M]

The corvette is in the mid 3's right? Wiki said 3.8

I believe the arial atom is in the high 2's. Wiki said 2.8

Lingenfelter had a 1.6...

[Seanaldinho]

Lingenfelter had a 1.6...

Oh ok thats not stock I thought you meant stock nevermind. I didnt know what Lingenfelter was haha.

[icepac]

Nissan GT-R does it in 1.9 seconds on the OEM tires....not even R compound tires like the Viper ACR used.

Those tires last about 2100 miles on the street.

[Reaper90]

Nissan GT-R does it in 1.9 seconds on the OEM tires....not even R compound tires like the Viper ACR used.

Those tires last about 2100 miles on the street.

2.9 sec 0-60 for the GT-R, according to Nissan, MotorTrend, etc.

[icepac]

Whoops....not sure why I posted 1.9 seconds.

I've got a ligenfelter 1000hp package twin turbo vette at the shop which never made even close to the HP advertised.

We got 1200hp at the wheels after doing the job properly and it still won't come near a 1.6 second 0 to 60 time.

I would assume any ligenfelter capable of a 0 to 60 of 1.6 would be useless anywhere but the drag strip.

[Grayeagle]

1.6 sounds a lot like 60 foot times for a very quick drag car.
For comparison, my 440 powered, 3020lb Duster on 13" x 31" slicks would post right at 2.0 60 foot times.
That was with zero tire spin off the line, 8" converter flashin to 4700 rpm thru 4.89 gears.

There weren't many cars with license plates that could stay with it in first gear.

There *was* a small block powered '69 Camaro useda leave quicker on me during time trials..
..he was runnin 5.38's in the back, same size slicks, same weight, about a second faster thru the 1/4.
Was a trailer car ..no license plates, etc. Was a sweet soundin 8k rpm motor

-Frank aka GE

[Shuffler]

Whoops....not sure why I posted 1.9 seconds.

I've got a ligenfelter 1000hp package twin turbo vette at the shop which never made even close to the HP advertised.

We got 1200hp at the wheels after doing the job properly and it still won't come near a 1.6 second 0 to 60 time.

I would assume any ligenfelter capable of a 0 to 60 of 1.6 would be useless anywhere but the drag strip.

I'm always amazed at how yall fix all these well known builders cars so they run right. How did they become so well known and no one had heard of yall. That is even more amazing.

[RTHolmes]

some companies spend more on marketing than hiring decent engineers would be my guess.


a few years back the Rousch stangs that came over to the UK were ... not quite to spec. it seems about 50 of their horses jumped overboard and drowned in the atlantic on the trip over ...

[icepac]

I'm always amazed at how yall fix all these well known builders cars so they run right. How did they become so well known and no one had heard of yall. That is even more amazing.

We're a relative new shop as compared to ligenfelter but, if you had ever seen thier work, you would know why it's done.

Maybe they use a mustang dyno because our twin retarder dyno dynamics unit always reads correct and we spend the time to calibrate it while most shops would rather thier dyno post optimistic readings.

[Shuffler]

lol Mustang dynos can be calibrated fairly close but rarely are.

Whatever dyno you use it is a good idea to always use it for comparison with upgrades. They can swing quite a bit from one to the other.

[icepac]

On the really high HP cars, we don't use the dyno because the tires either chunk off or melt and get oily.

We test them on very long straightaways.

[Big Rat]

lol Mustang dynos can be calibrated fairly close but rarely are.

Whatever dyno you use it is a good idea to always use it for comparison with upgrades. They can swing quite a bit from one to the other.

They normally swing 20-30 horse around here, depending on who's dyno.  My guy has one of the lower reading ones in the area. 

 
BigRat