ah, my bad.. was lookin' at pics

 

i have serious doubts about those stats. the 0-60 and 0-100 times are in open-wheel territory....so's the 1/4 for that matter.

 

Twin Turbo C5s are no joke... fast as hell standard or auto. This one I drove with a couple weekends ago on a corvette drive had over 600whp.

 

damn.

 

No one doubts those are sickly fast! 0-60 mph under 2 seconds is hard to believe for a RWD street car. C&D have always ran article are mega HP vettes, mustangs, camaros, and vipers. They never get those numbers (on this Lingenfelter 'Vette webpage) because of lack of traction.

 

yes it is, a friend of mine has an escort MK1 used only for 1/4mile that goes from 0-60 in 1.43sec

 

I like corvettes, they look sexy as hell ..... one of the few american cars I actually like ....

 

That particular car uses drag slicks for those times. That is most certainly not on street tires.

And if the only thing you can come up with is "auto is gay", a lot of drag cars are auto and will shift faster than you can blink.

 

The new super tuner challenge in C&D has a lingefelter corvette. It quotes 800hp and 830 ft-lb of torque from a twin-turbo 427. It also has 345/30ZR-19 tires. C&D said an 11.6 second quarter mile at 136 mph, with a 0-60 of 4.1 seconds.

Granted, this is way slow for any modded corvette, so they were having obvious traction problems. But, the car is only RWD and it does way about 3300 lbs., so thats a lot of inertia to overcome. Even if this is slow for a lingenfelter, an 11.6 @136 is a far cry from a high 8 second quarter mile.

 

vettes are dope. something i'd like to have as a cruiser/weekend car when i'm retired. i just saw a show with the new C6. it was siiick!

 

having a fast (ugly ) vette is better than having a fast civic, or any economy car (lancer, accord, etc.) . at least it can go fast out of the factory.... but ur right, they are ugly, id rather take the viper if i was to choose only domestic cars...

 

That hood is Ghey

 

first thing. look at his trap speed with street tires. that freakin fast. next thank how hard it is to launch an 800hp rwd on those street tires. I bet his 60ft's weren't even in the 1.9 range. I bet money that the same car in c&d test would run well into the 10's and maybe low 9's with the right kinda tires (slicks) and a good driver. IMO of course.

-chad-

 

Agreed on the tires part. But someone was asking earlier if a RWD car with street tires could run an 8 second quarter mile with 800 hp, and thats clearly not going to happen.
As for the good driver part, either someone from lingenfelter or someone from C&D was driving the car, and I don't think either would be a slouch behing the wheel. The hennessey venom managed an 11.0 sec @ 143 with more or less equivalent power numbers. Even thats not really a good time, though.

I agree the trap speed is ridiculous (just imagine 0-136 in 11.6 seconds, stock evos take longer to get to 100).

Still, the point is the same, IF the lingenfelter at the beginning of the thread is quoting 0-60 mph in less than 2 seconds and and 8.95 second quarter mile on street tires, the owner is full of it.

 

A better test than the 1/4 would be a standing start mile. Offset some of the traction issues. It wouldn't surprise me to see 200 at the end of that mile.