C5 Corvette Vs. 96 Cobra

[ford50forlife]

Originally posted by Matrix
What the...?! Listen, son. I understand the workings of a car, and the differences between shops more than you would think. I have spent countless hours working on all types of cars, doing all kinds of work. I am a veteran of the Chicago racing scene, and I have numerous connections at REAL shops all over Chicago.

All I was saying was that it's very easy to say "Oh yeah?! Well when my car gets out of the shop, it's gonna make XXX horsepower and XXX torque, and run XX.X in the 1/4 mile!!" And it's almost as useless to say that as it is to quote mag times. You don't know what your car is going to run until you run it. Different cars respond to different modifications in many ways. To put an exact number on what your car will run when it gets out of the shop is ridiculous. THAT was my point.

Got that, tough guy? Now watch that attitude, or it might get ya in trouble.

quick heads up, car ALREADY ran 9.13 with the unworked 496 stroker that was at the shop ON MOTOR (THATS THE RUN HE BLEW THE MOTOR) he put the 350 back in (500 motor horsepower 1900 lbs raceweight) and HE ALREADY RAN 8.30's with the 600 shot. The car is not a ghetto dream car man, HE RACES DAILY FOR MONEY, ive seen him race his datsun IN THE POORING RAIN...., whats EVEN worse is people CHALLENGE HIM TO IT, HE WILL DRIVE IT DAILY TOO HE DOESNT CARE

so its only plausible that roughly 300 more hp and like 500+ more torque would yeild about 8 tenths gain in the 1/4 mile

This guy is hilarious too, he raced my mustang with his "WIFE's" late 70's monte carlo, with a decent 327 carbed in it... i thought he was going down, and from a roll it was dead even, then we went to a stop...... all i saw was that cars nose pointing up... that was all... found out he paid 2.5K for it, gutted the whole ****ing thing, cut the front suspension off, and managed a 12.50's out of it @99 <------ THATS RIGHT DOUBLE DIGIT TRAPS.... dude knows what hes doing..