I went street racing last weekend, not really expecting to get a race myself, just to watch. Well, a guy set up a race for me before I ever got there with a 95' Mustang GT. It looked really sharp. It had 17 inch polished rims, lowering springs, and nice paint. I figured what the hell I can smoke this guy. Well, I did win, but not like I had hoped. I had him off the line, all the way to end, but, he was only about a car or so back. When I got back they told me he had the bottle and just started laughing. I guess he needs a bigger shot huh?

 

I guess that worked out good for you. He probably was running a 50 or 75 shot at most and couldn't catch you. GOOD KILL.

 

the 96-98 GT 4.6s sucked. A friend of mine in his turbo Honda Civic 1.8 beat a 4.6 GT with nitrous also. And the Honda is only running 7lbs of boost.

 

Yeah those Mustangs HP is over rated cause people bought Mustangs and put them on the dyno and it wasn't putting out what Ford said. But heres a little secret: The LS1's are really under rated.

 

Those year Mustangs sucked. There probably the worst, besides the mid 70s and they were BARELY running 14s. Good kill though, although I don't know why he was laughing.

 

Good kill BadBowtie.

The 96-98 Mustangs have essentially turned out to be the red headed step child of the late model Mustang era. Overweight, underpowered cars don't make for a good racecar. The 94-95's really weren't much faster either, just made a little more torque down low to get them off the line better.

That was the '99 Cobra and the issue was fixed in a recall a long time ago.

Yea, it's pretty cool when a car is putting more hp to the wheels off the showroom floor than they were advertised to be making at the crank. I love the LS1 firebirds.

 

Earlier I saw a dyno on the TV of a new Vette Conv't. It made 296 hp and 306 tq, or close to that. Why does that seem low to me. I've heard of stock Z28s putting that to the ground. Is it just me or is that car lacking some potential.

 

Maybe it was one of the lower end cars from the factory? I can see where production tolerances would allow for a 15 - 20 hp difference in engine output. Just a guess though.

 

Your right about the 99 Cobras NIC. Are we all actually getting along!

 

Hey BadBowtie88 with everything you have, I was thinking you could be getting better times. Those 2.77s don't help. I ran a 14.2@98 at the track with just headers,catback,and runners.

 

The new LS1 Vettes are only a couple tenths faster than the LS1 Fbodies. The best times i have seen for the fbody is 12.8. The same driver piloted a Vette hardtop to a 12.6. Both cars were 6speeds. The fbody version of the LS1 isnt all that detuned from the Vette version as Chevy would like you to think.

 

Cool!! U beat a nitroused M*****g with the 2.77's too.

 

N2o isn't everything, I consider it the icing on the cake.

 

Z28z, I should be running better times yes, and alot of that is the gears. Here is what's up. I ran a best of 14.49 w/o the heads, but, that was with 245/50/16's on the back. Now I have 255/50/16's on the back. My gears are so crappy, that with the taller tire my time dropped to 14.60 w/o the heads. When I put the heads on, I technically gained .4 off my time. But, with the other tire I should be closer to the 13's. In either case in about a month my car is going to sleep and when it wakes up, people won't know what just happened when they get beat by an 88' Iroc.