Jack Epperson

Why does a ss wont to race stock c5. He should be racing a Zo6 instead.

Frosty

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Why??

DrtyBrty

I say go for it. My true all stock 97 c5 a4 w/3.15 takes a 04 c5 6sp all day long from a stop; at around 30 mph I lose. If the $50 is to much for you then haggle him a bit. Sell him on the fact he doesn't need $ to race because he is a winner either way. He beats you he wins, you beat him he wins cause he can then say I raced a vette and barely lost. (That is what he will tell people at least) Have fun.

gyrene2003

Wow, way to generalize vett guy!!!! the time in my sig was done the first day i went to the track, IN MY LIFE!! when my car didnt enen have a lid, and im a vert too!!! yet to run it with my small amount of mods. oh, and about not bieng able to do better than 13.7, my very first pass was a 13.6! i have never seen 14s!

InsomZ

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yea way to many variables it really depends on the cars and the drivers.. some stock auto vettes put down 280 some do 310+

from a roll i'd def put $ on the SS
from a dig, get a stall converter and tires and you should win

Patman

I'm telling you from my experience at the track, and I've been there tons of times with the Toronto f-body guys for many years (I owned three f-bodies before my Vette), that most M6 f-body owners have a very hard time running better than high 13s with their cars in stock trim. I'm not saying it's impossible to run low 13s, I'm just saying that most novice drivers can't do it, and when you go to the track with 50 f-bodies, there might be 4 or 5 guys out of the bunch who really know how to launch and shift a 6 speed car well enough to get it to run it's full potential. The rest just cannot do it.

FWIW, in 1998 I managed to run a 13.08 at 108.7 with my old 6 speed 98 Formula, with just free mods and an MTI airbox and still on the stock GSCs (with a 2.00 60ft time). But it took a lot of practice with the car before I got it running that well. My first trip to the track (when the car was one week old and not broken in) netted me a 13.68 at 102.9.

MICAH HERRON

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After you go to DFW, come over to Charleston and watch me go bye-bye!

This race is driver more than car if you all ask me, but who is asking me?

COYOTE SS

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Don't jump on Patman, It sounds like he knows a little something about cars. I have a 2002 SS, and when I first bought it I ran 3 passes, all 3 of them were 13.7s using the G-Tech, and I was B.O.N.E stock. Since then I have done some small mods, all bolt on, no mas, tb, or pullies. I now run 8.4-8.5 in the 1/8th. Some of us from the Mid-Iowa Camaro Club (www.midiowacamaroclub.com) are going to Cedar Falls Raceway in July which is a 1/4 mile in Iowa, so we'll see what I run now.

y2kvette

my bone stock A4 vette will go 13.0 all day long in 85 degree weather on run flats but i have 3.15's from factory, so maybe with your gearing your like a 13.4 you should have no problem just launch from exactly 1k rpm and you should have no problem if the other guy isnt john force your going up against!

CamaroSS621

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careful. I told a ton of people that I only had a cam, long tubes and a rear. after 10 carlengths they were a little puzzled

Suicide King

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Or, you can try the banana in the tailpipe