Yes I agree the GT500 was not optimized for the drag strip. I don't know about horrible. It just has so much power and torque that it's going to make a good time, even non-optimized. I don't know about the Z06, but you're probably right.
I ran 11.3 @ 127 bone stock off the show room. That means oe supplied tires. First pass. Backed up by two more 11.3s @126. 1.8 60fts.
You missed my ninja edit.
. I was being sarcastic about the horrible part. :cheers:
Running right it should be about 7100 in 4th gear @ 123, shifting into 4th at 110 mph @ 8200.... that's not perfect but far from shabby, using a 27 inch tire height.
You realize the gt350 is 400lbs lighter. There are coyotes with the same power as the gt350 running low 11s. Youre simply wrong. 11.4s will be doable for the R. The 550hp gt500s could run mid 11s too. Gt350 is lighter then them too
There's something to be said about solid rear axles achieving these times, as compared to an IRS solely set up for the track. A "DRAG" setting is just that... a setting. It can in no way, assimilate the efficiency of putting power to the ground on flat pavement as a SRA can. If this were so, all dragsters would have IRS and "DRAG" settings.
irs can do fine drag racing. The new s550 has been showing that. We'll just look at na s550s for now. There is already 1 in the low 11s. Another running 11.6 with less power then the one running a boss manifold. Irs can be capable. In most hands it will not do well without experience. Most people are new to drag racing irs cars. Some arent. Most people will just do better with sra because its easier. There are irs cars in the 6s and 7s in drag racing. We have fi s550s about ready to break into the 8s on that irs with 1.3 60s. Most people will jump on the irs isnt capable because they dont know what people are actually doing with it. Now nobody is ditching factory sra equipped cars for irs but is not being ditched as often as it used to be in favor of sra.
That's a fair assumption and some decent statements, but let's keep apples to apples and oranges to oranges.
How is irs doing fine in quater mile races an assumption? Its not something im assuming. Its something i see and experienced in my own irs car at one time. How are s550s not apples to apples? They are both irs.
Thoroughly agreed!!!
i think the car world would be better off without magzines like motor trend, road and track, car and driver etc. The only performance mags ill read is fast fords and muscle mustang etc types. I gave up long ago on the ricer mags as i call em. So many people place all their hopes on those mag results. Its crazy.
Im aware of what it is and isnt. Its still similar power will still get down the quater mile more similar then youd think. Ive wrote damn near a dissertation of the explanation of net torque around here. I have a perfect understanding of what this car will do.
