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Old 06-26-2006, 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by gnbooster87
theres only one way to find out
werd race his ***
Old 06-26-2006, 08:08 PM
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These threads always end up the same, but I'd say it depends on if it's a roll race or from a dig. From the dig the guy who can launch will win, easily enough. If it's from a roll the C5Z is going into the race with a 40-50 rwhp defecit... an uphill battle. I've seen LS2s with bolt-ons and no tune go ~390 rwhp. Better hope he misses a shift because if not it's all C6.
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I mean intake exhaust AND headers. That is a pretty major upgrade for any engine to have. Then a custom tune that goes with it. Definately C6 over the stock Z06.

The Z06 can even the odds though by doing one of the following:

1. Slash the C6's tires.

2. Let out the C6's tires and break the tire pressure sensors.

3. Put drag slicks on.

4. Flash pictures of the C6 owners wife/sister/mother/girlfriend/all of them at the same in one massive orgy.

Otherwise I don't think a Z51 handling package will do much from a drag point of view and I think that the if it had the A4 or A6 paddleshift it will also help it if it had the transmission tuned at the same time. Plus if it has soft shocks and springs that will also help on a launch.

When I tuned my Z28's transmission it made a real difference, shift point and clutch engagement rate. The shift firmness made a hell of a noticable difference on a butt dyno.
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I have a z06... and i'm leaning towards the C6 on this one
Old 06-27-2006, 03:04 PM
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just a quick update. never raced him yet. I see him around in his SS trailblazer and said he is having a supernatural package put in. lol I told him he had to race my buddy's neon first lol
Old 06-27-2006, 03:16 PM
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Originally Posted by CamaroSS621
just a quick update. never raced him yet. I see him around in his SS trailblazer and said he is having a supernatural package put in. lol I told him he had to race my buddy's neon first lol

so he has a C6 and an SSTB?
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he bought just a stock C6 brand new and is doing the supernatural package
Old 06-27-2006, 03:36 PM
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Stock vs. stock the C5Z will almost always edge the C6 out. With heads/exhuast/intake/tune I would put my money on the C6.
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The outcome in post #1 always depends on the driver.

As in all sports, equipment is a factor but the skill of the player or operator is of paramount importance. The more so when you're talking about traction-limited cars.

In my 2002 Z06 I ran at the drags with two bolt-on C6s. It was a day that I had a pulled ACL on my clutch leg. Bone stock on stock tires I ran 12.34, 12.17, 12.14, 12.10. The bolt-on C6s didn't run better than 12.3X and they were on DRs. In a match race with the C6, my first pass and still trying to make my bad clutch leg work properly on shifts, He ran 12.38 to my 12.34. That was the closest the C6s got that day.

There were a half-dozen C5Z there that day with CAI and DRs. They were running 11.8X-11.9X but all the drivers had a fair amount of seat time. Still that was 4-5 tenths better than the bolt-on C6s.

Results may vary. All depends on the drivers.

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Originally Posted by Ranger
The outcome in post #1 always depends on the driver.

As in all sports, equipment is a factor but the skill of the player or operator is of paramount importance. The more so when you're talking about traction-limited cars.

In my 2002 Z06 I ran at the drags with two bolt-on C6s. It was a day that I had a pulled ACL on my clutch leg. Bone stock on stock tires I ran 12.34, 12.17, 12.14, 12.10. The bolt-on C6s didn't run better than 12.3X and they were on DRs. In a match race with the C6, my first pass and still trying to make my bad clutch leg work properly on shifts, He ran 12.38 to my 12.34. That was the closest the C6s got that day.

There were a half-dozen C5Z there that day with CAI and DRs. They were running 11.8X-11.9X but all the drivers had a fair amount of seat time. Still that was 4-5 tenths better than the bolt-on C6s.

Results may vary. All depends on the drivers.

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Yeah but with an automatic you don't need driver skill !!!

Even better with a stall and tires, then you just need the cash to rebuild the rear-end!!!

Plus if you don't care about the breakage factor a shift point tune set for your stall and cam will dominate in a drag.
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Originally Posted by Genesis_26317
Yeah but with an automatic you don't need driver skill !!!

Even better with a stall and tires, then you just need the cash to rebuild the rear-end!!!

Plus if you don't care about the breakage factor a shift point tune set for your stall and cam will dominate in a drag.
A skilled 6-speed driver that can launch, hit his shift points and make strong shifts still smokes the A4/A6, with its 20% driveline loss vs 15% for the M6/M12. I do it with some regularity. But it depends on the drivers. A good M6/M12 driver will still shift faster than the auto tranny can.

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Old 07-06-2006, 09:50 PM
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So I took the z06 down to houston this weekend, and as i was sitting on the service road, a yellow c6 goes down the highway, i bust *** to get out (mainly for the soul purpose of this thread) on the highway, and catch up to him, we're rolling about 70mph, we drop down to about 65 and i look at him, he looks at me and we go at it. I'm a BONE STOCK z06... he was a BONE STOCK C6... i was SLOWLY pulling on him from 70ish - 125ish. But... i was pulling. If that car had what your buddies has... he'd have put me in my place. It made me want my mods faster. Specially as an 04 cobra i never saw, passed us both!
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Originally Posted by marlowchris
From a roll,the C6 wins. It will be hard to make up the 50hp difference. From a dig the better driver wins. It is all about the 60'.
what he said^^^^^^^^^^^^



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