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Old 10-28-2016, 07:23 AM
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It's pointless to have more horsepower in a lite chassis....and what's up with that that ugly *** rice infused wing!
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Originally Posted by EddieGoesFast
It's pointless to have more horsepower in a lite chassis....and what's up with that that ugly *** rice infused wing!
More power is always better IMO and the wing is probably just there to throw more people off like the rest of the car does...
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That wing is awful, hopefully it's just to throw people off like you said
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Yea I'm sure they're just testing fitments & trial & error type things with the spoiler... I've seen different ones on these prototypes as well. But hey no one ever complained about to much power
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Originally Posted by z28pat
That wing is awful, hopefully it's just to throw people off like you said
theres this little thing called downforce. ever heard of it?
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Originally Posted by Wnts2Go10O
theres this little thing called downforce. ever heard of it?
Exactly! The 2017 ZR1 is aiming at the Viper ACR, which has a huge wing and lots of down force
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Originally Posted by sweet99ss
More power is always better IMO
Once you get past a certain point it's really not.

The car will not be fun anymore if you can never get traction and you're too afraid to get on it because you might lose control.
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You have experience with this or what? I'm making 600rwhp and will have 700rwhp in a few weeks when I turn up the boost. If you can't handle it drive a honda lol. They have traction control on these cars for people who can't drive and will loose control with 700hp. That is why it's there. To say they are giving the car to much hp is a joke.

If someone wanted less power they could always pull some timing and make the car slower. I very very rarely here someone complaining "this thing just makes to much power". It's always "I need more powa"...
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Originally Posted by sweet99ss
To say they are giving the car to much hp is a joke.
I didn't say 700hp was too much.

I simply disagreed with the universal statement that more power is always better.
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Originally Posted by Jenson
Exactly! The 2017 ZR1 is aiming at the Viper ACR, which has a huge wing and lots of down force
Aiming at a car that is set to end production in 2017?
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10.6 at 134 in the quarter with the auto, wonder what a stalled auto would do.....



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