I was on my lunch break today and was heading home to grab something to eat. I see a silver C5 vette 2 cars in front of me. I didnt think much of it since most vette owners I've seen are older and just cruise around in them. NOT ALL (I know pleanty of locals that drive their vettes to their limits..), but I didnt think anything of it. I went to speed up to look at it and give the owner a thumbs up for having a nice car. A light was coming up, and the vette driver looks over and gives a thumbs up back and looks up at the light.

My adrenalin is pumping. FINALLY! My opportunity to race the almighty corvette. I open the cutout and seconds later the light turns green... We both ease into it... And he punches it when we were at about 20mph. I followed, and started a half car back. By 70 I had a car on him.

I let off and so did he. We both roll up to the next intersection and we both exchanged thumbs ups again.

Not the best race since it was only for about a 50mph span, but I was pulling on him and it wasnt the best place to be racing either.70mph was fast enough for the area. We werent on a highway.

Cool vette owner. He was bone stock and had a M6.

My SS has basic boltons. Pasesetter LT's, magnaflow exhaust, ORY, cutout, lid, some suspension stuff.

It made my day.

Just thought I'd share.

 

Nice kill, man.

 

I can only imagine how good you felt after that, even if it was a short race. You showed that your car was faster, and thats all that matters. Good kill. You must have been quite a bit louder than him with your cutout open.

 

good kill. you Fbody's must not weigh that much more than vettes for you to pull with your mods. I thought a bolt on fbody would be about even with a C5.

 

hELL NO!!!!!!!

A C5 stock for stock is only 250 pounds lighter...but the Fbody dynos 10 rwhp higher on average despite haveing the same engine the fbody has less drive train loss than the c5 with it's IRS..

So your talking about a 1.5 mph advantage in the 1/4 mile stock for stock...

C5 will run a 13.35 at 107.0.........Fbody will a 13.50 at 105.5


With his mods it was no problem

 

Yeah, its pretty loud. hahah! I dont think he was expecting it to go from quiet to obnoxious either.

 

nice kill man

 

Nice kill dude. Of all of the cars I have ran I have never raced a vette. I take that back, I raced one back when I was bolt ons... the vette was built and procharged. I don't count that one, lol.

 

nice kill man

 

Too bad lemons wasn't driving, you woulda had 12 cars on him!

 

congrats! i wish i could find a vette to race, win or lose, i just wanna run one.

 

I don't know about 12.... I'd give it a good 3-4 though.


-Lemons

 

Winning was a huge bonus, but I was just happy to line up with a C5.

Thanks everyone!!

 

I'd expect that if the race continued...you'd slowly begin to see the taillights of the C5...especially at speeds 120+

 

Nice kill, cool story writing.

 

Nice kill....great grammar (it's amazing to actually be able to read a kill story on the SRK section)!

 

1. Why would anyone race 120+, especially on the street.
2. Why would you think that? The camaro is up by about 50Rwhp or so.

 

nice kill

 

nice kill, man. I have a very similar setup, so its good to know I'll be able to pull stock C5s

 

Nice kill OP!


Who told you F-bodies average 10rwhp more than C5's? Cause that's B.S. I've seen countless stock C5 & F-body pulls in my 10 years at FFP. They put down pretty much the same, about 295-310 for M6 cars. And 250lbs can easily account for +/- 2.5 tenths by the end of the quarter-mile depending, last time I checked that's a pretty decent advantage.

Realistically M6 C5's run closer to 13.00 in the 1/4 at traps closer to 110. Many guys have trapped in the 109 range, that's nothing uncommon for a C5.

Only thing I agree with.