FastCarFanBoy
Well-Known Member
LOL really?This guy has no clue on how an engine works or the difference between torque and horsepower. You are only looking at the peak HP of 760 and assuming the GT500 can out accelerate a ZLE in and out of a corner. At what rpm do you think the car is making the 760 hp? And at what rpm the car is making a tight turn? On the ZL1 the power comes in early and carries out to upper midrange due to high flat torque. If we add the additional weight and skinny tires, good luck out accelerating the ZL1 1LE around a corner. The GT500 will hit the ditch slide out of the track in a heartbeat.
This is why Ford is not publishing any lap times and they won’t. They did their best with what they can with the GT500 CFTP and even with that the results must have been not that great. They only published the quarter mile results. Think before jumping into conclusions.
You made the statement that the LT4's significant low/mid range torque advantage was going to allow the car to out accelerate to weaker GT500 from a corner. Now you are backpedaling and talking about excess weight and skinny tires. There is no acceleration metric where the ZLE will out accelerate the GT500, not 0-60, 5-30, 50-70, 1/4 mile. Pick any delta from 0-180 and the GT500 will make the ZLE its bitch.
If you believe the ZLE will put its power down from a corner better then say that, but saying the stupid shit you said about torque and then claiming I have no clue how an engine works is comical.
Just in case i'm completely off base and you are correct... which corner are we talking about exactly? Which gear are we in? and what speed/rpm are we at? Those after all are constants.
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