The car You Love to hate!
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Joined: Dec 2005
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From: DFW, TX
IM going to go ahead and say this.... I raced a 2011 California Special 5.0 with a whipple and few other mods on it. The kids said he was in 56k and had 6-8k in mods. I have longtubes, slp maf, k&n cai, built 4l60e, and 4.11's. We went from a 40 roll (because he said he has 650rwhp....yeah ok) but anyways i got jump on him held it for a little then he started pulling and pulled about car and a half on me. second race same thing pretty much. I was expecting for him to walk and walk and walk on me and not be a race. He raced my buddy with low 12 second WRX and beat my buddy by 1 car. THe stang looked good and sounded nasty but i was very unimpressed considering for 1 its a new 5.0 and 2nd that it had a whipple on it. The kid was a good driver no doubt he shifted fast and on point and was rapping out the rpms good. My sig says TSP heads but they arent on yet btw so only mods i listed up abbove. And yeah he prob was running low boost but come on now thats weak. My car is nothing special and he drove the **** out of the car so im kinda baffled
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Joined: Aug 2007
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From: El Paso, TX again
Haha typical..very true but whats the world without a little Chevy vs Ford drama? Your gonna miss it if either one or both go away. You'll look back and remember the good ol'e days of this crap.
For now...it is pretty dumb but we'll see what happens with the new platform(alpha?). Then that will stomp the new 5.0, then a new 5.0 SC'd model will come out and it will go around and around and around. All I know is I have my LS1 in my T/A and it's been very good to me. Got a friend with a new 5.0..we'll race some day.
For now...it is pretty dumb but we'll see what happens with the new platform(alpha?). Then that will stomp the new 5.0, then a new 5.0 SC'd model will come out and it will go around and around and around. All I know is I have my LS1 in my T/A and it's been very good to me. Got a friend with a new 5.0..we'll race some day.
He said 650rwhp not me, if he was it woulda been game over for me. but i accept he beat me i knew he would not trying to say he was a good driver and he wasnt im just being truthful he didnt miss a shift or hit rev limiter. If we would have kept going more he would have kept pulling and beat me worse but we stopped around 110. Low end wasnt that impressive top end had some great pull though ran like a bat out of hell
To make my point clear. A bone stock Ls1 2002 Z28 will not out run a 2011 mustang GT. On paper the car is clearly faster and put up better 1/4 mile times. We cant take that away from ford not one bit. But while ford was tinkering with that 5.0, GM release the ls2,3,7,9 And any one of them can be transplanted in a F bomb. So now the Gen 4 guys need some bolt ons to run with the new 5.0 boys. Its all good tho becuse a ls3 4 Gen Z28 is not a hard swap and soon if not now is the norm. GM has the equipment to run with ford its the 4 GEN camaro with a better heart beat. I dont like 5th GENS so.... yeah.
