I ran into a local 96 Z-28 a few weeks ago, the local shop that did has been saying it is the fastest Camaro in town. 96 Z-28, 6spd, shorty headers, y-pipe, catback, MAF, TB, HPPIII, and a 100 shot of nitrous with all suspension mods done but stock gears(he said 3.73's though??!!). I found him coming out of Subway one day. I got behind him and he nailed it! We went down a twisty road, I was on him good. We finally got to a stop and as soon as he nailed it I was on it behind him. He got sideways and I was all over the place! As soon as I got traction I pulled up a full car then had to let off so I didn't hit him. Did it again with same outcome. Talked to the guy after, cool dude. Too bad he wasted his $$ at that "shop". He said he gave it all he had, and was blown away by my car and that it only had a SC and exhaust. There is no way it would beat either of my friends LS1's..no way. I can't believe that "shop" says it has 475hp!!!!!????

 

why not? 280 stock LT1 hp with 45 hp in mods with a 150 shot theres your 475 hp.

good kill though!

 

Ya, I guess if it had 150hp jets it would be as long as he got the full 150. The guy has no bottle warmer or n2o pressure guage though. Maybe he was not even getting "full" 100 hp when I raced him. From my experience, a warmer is almost manditory for good bottle pressure.

 

absolutely. bottle pressure is the most important thing when it comes to nitrous. and if you dont have a warmer, its very hard to get the ideal pressure. anything under 900psi and youre wasting your time

 

Don't forget programmin. Hypertech is fine for a stock car but not a modifed one, especially on the spray. He needs to either program it himself(LT1 Edit) or have someone else do it.

I know from my own experience with just a cam change that a programmed ECM was worth more than .3 sec over the Hypertech. Even more when I started doing my own tuning.

 

He has the power programmer thing, never messed with one myself. The place that did the work on the car are clueless. They said that it is an 11 second car! They actaualy never even rode in 12 second car let alone a 11 second one. Just some dorks with $$ that opened a shop.

 

hahahaha

thats funny as chit!

christ thats maybe 1000 bucks worth of parts if that. sounds like they raped that guy. i'd be a bit pissed to pay 2000 2500 bucks and only get 45-65 hp and a cheap shot of juice.

 

Sounds like his sideways car has no suspension mods or he doesn't know how to drive or that is not a 100 shot like everyone else said. Could also be a combo of these problems. Poor LT1