All last year I ran the car in its current form , which is a Cartek 441 cid naturally aspirated stroker through a 4L60E auto trans , I was fortunate enough to have no driveline breakage in roughly 150 hard launches . This with a stock torque tube , no rear diff brace . I did have occasional problems with the trans slipping towards the end of the season , but that's it . I run a very streetable 3200 stall converter , the motor has plenty of low end grunt , so I don't need a high stall .

For comparison , two years ago , I had a 408 iron block with a 200 shot of nitrous , it put down 700HP/700TQ to the wheels , I never got more then 10 passes out of the car without the trans acting up , or some sort of driveline breakage , I broke the trans case , the rear diff case etc , etc . I couldn't afford to keep up with the breakage , and the aggravation , so I went naturally aspirated last year and I'm a lot happier with the car now , and was fortunate enough to be the first , and currently only stock suspenion C5 in the nines on motor only .

 

I disconnect the front sway bar for the track , but I don't think it makes a big difference . I run adjustable QA1 shocks in the front , and I still have Bilstein sport shocks for three years now , in the rear .

 

This video was just posted in another section . https://ls1tech.com/forums/drag-racing-tech/299164-cartek-customer-accolade.html

 

oh neat

 

Can you change the wheels to stock..... so I can make it my desktop Very nice launch..... i wish I could just get a 1.70.

 

Looks good...

 

That's bad ***! Congrats on the times

 

Nice, bro

 

Thanks , Nice sig pic .

 

DITTO>>>>>

 

Damn. Sweet pics.

 

Wow!!

 

thats just plain bad ***!

 

Mike,
I am getting both our street cars there........still on heavy *** HRE's & drag radials
4/22/05 1.56' 60' on 345/30/18 drs



4/22/05 1.72' 60' on 275/35/18 drs

 

how much torque does that thing have

 

Great pics Mike. Ive only seen two C5s do that. That would be yours and mine.

 

diddo

 

Awesome I added it to my collection of pictures.

 

It made 556RWHP and 532RWTQ SAE through 3.90 gears and an automatic .

 

John , How's your beast ? You need to get it to Cartek for some upgrades , you'd probably come out with another 50RWHP easy .