This Corvette shows why dyno numbers don’t mean much in the real world.
This street racing video comes to us from the StreetScienceTX YouTube channel and it features a C6 Corvette Z06 taking on a Lamborghini Huracan and a Nissan GTR. The Lambo has seemingly been included for some extra “wow factor,” but the GTR and Z06 are the main event. Based on the performance numbers – the result isn’t what you might expect.
The Competitors
While this video shows a long list of impressive performance cars, the car-stars of this clip are the bright yellow C6 Corvette Z06, the bright red Lamborghini Huracan and the grey Nissan GTR.
The Huracan is stock, so it “only” has 600 horsepower. The Corvette has a ProCharger D1SC supercharger, heads and a cam, resulting in 850 horsepower. The Nissan GTR has an SBD 1200 turbo kit on a built VR38 engine with a built transmission. Of course, the Lambo and the Nissan are all-wheel drive while the Z06 only spins the rear wheels, but it is unclear whether those power numbers are wheel horsepower or engine horsepower.
We know that the Huracan is rated at 600, so that would be the engine number and with the stock Z06 making 505 horsepower at the engine, we would think that heads, a cam and a blower would add more than 245 horsepower at the crankshaft, so that 850 number is likely wheel horsepower. As for the Nissan, that 1,100 might be engine horsepower, as the transmission build is said to be good for up to 1,000 wheel horsepower.
In any case, even with 1,100 horsepower, the GTR can’t hang with the blown Vette.
The Racing Action
The video begins by giving us a look at the crowd of cars on hand for the pre-race festivities, along with a close-up look at the featured vehicles. The actual racing action begins with the stock Huracan taking on the Nissan and getting absolutely destroyed before getting beaten even more severely by the Corvette.
Next, the 1,100-horsepower Nissan takes on the 850-horsepower Corvette, with the two cars putting the hammer down on the three-count. Surprisingly, the Z06 walks away from the GTR in back-to-back races, reminding us that bench-racing with dyno numbers doesn’t always lead to the real-world outcome.
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