Full bolt on LT1 vs full bolt on 2012 5.0
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Full bolt on LT1 vs full bolt on 2012 5.0
Supposedly the lt1 has lt4 heads and cam or something, but full bolt ons, weight reduction, 4.10's, tire, driver mod.
5.0 has full exhaust, boss intake manifold, jlt cai, bama tune.
5.0 has full exhaust, boss intake manifold, jlt cai, bama tune.
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The LT1's with a decent head and cam combo with full bolt-ons are no joke they can put down some decent h/p to the rear wheels. Impressed with the LT1, hanging with a full bolt-on 5.0 Mustang. The lt1's don't get enough respect with the mighty LS1 around.
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To much gear in the lt. Runs good just to much gear. A buddy had a lt that went 12.1 @ 114 with a very mild rebuilt with used pistons/ring lt. Car was not really even tuned right and only had shorty headers. He did have 3.90 gears though which don't seem like much difference but it is.
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Bama sucks. They don't disable clutch protection, torque managment. I guarantee with the boss intake he's dropping power after 65-6700rpm because they don't adjust the vct.
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But on another note. Great running LT car. Agree it either needs another 1000 rpm of power band or drop some gear.
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Still not a bad running car if its beating 12.7 cars with bolt-ons. FWIW my 93 did 12.8s with "most" boltons (still on stock salad shooters, no EWP, through an exhaust). Probably had 12.5s in it but I jumped into more mods before I optimized it. I feel that high 12s should be average for a good running bolt-on LT1 car. Some will be a lot quicker(record for a bolt-on street car is currently 11.4), but some a lot slower (I've seen bolt-on LT1s run what my 93 did bone stock, 13.9).
They are basically high compression SBCs, so it's king of silly that they get so much hate but I kind of like it. Makes it easier to hustle when people see its "just an NA LT1" .
::edit:: BTW, prepare for the shitstorm from the slow 12 second LS owners - "He was spraying", "It's really a stroker", "I heard it weighs 2800#s", etc
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Hios point is that more tire is going to cause more drag. Typically with racing, you want to run the smallest tire that will get you to hook and then gear it accordingly.
For example: Which do you think is faster assuming both cars hook. (Also... the steeper the gears, the more friction. The more friction, the more power is robbed.)
Same motor/trans in both cars.
4.10/28" tires
3.73/26" tires
(im ball parking without doing the math... assume mph per gear is identical)
Which is faster accelerating?
To me... its a no brainer which one you should run. Less tire...less drag... less gear...less friction. More tire....more drag....more gear...more friction
For example: Which do you think is faster assuming both cars hook. (Also... the steeper the gears, the more friction. The more friction, the more power is robbed.)
Same motor/trans in both cars.
4.10/28" tires
3.73/26" tires
(im ball parking without doing the math... assume mph per gear is identical)
Which is faster accelerating?
To me... its a no brainer which one you should run. Less tire...less drag... less gear...less friction. More tire....more drag....more gear...more friction
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Hios point is that more tire is going to cause more drag. Typically with racing, you want to run the smallest tire that will get you to hook and then gear it accordingly.
For example: Which do you think is faster assuming both cars hook. (Also... the steeper the gears, the more friction. The more friction, the more power is robbed.)
Same motor/trans in both cars.
4.10/28" tires
3.73/26" tires
(im ball parking without doing the math... assume mph per gear is identical)
Which is faster accelerating?
To me... its a no brainer which one you should run. Less tire...less drag... less gear...less friction. More tire....more drag....more gear...more friction
For example: Which do you think is faster assuming both cars hook. (Also... the steeper the gears, the more friction. The more friction, the more power is robbed.)
Same motor/trans in both cars.
4.10/28" tires
3.73/26" tires
(im ball parking without doing the math... assume mph per gear is identical)
Which is faster accelerating?
To me... its a no brainer which one you should run. Less tire...less drag... less gear...less friction. More tire....more drag....more gear...more friction
The assumption was to just a quick rematch with a taller tire though ("Throw another inch of tire under it"), which I agree with. It's a "bandaid", but a 1" taller tire will help nonetheless without having to open anything up. It wont hurt him like insinuated.
If he had the proper gearing then of course run the smaller tire.
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Hios point is that more tire is going to cause more drag. Typically with racing, you want to run the smallest tire that will get you to hook and then gear it accordingly.
For example: Which do you think is faster assuming both cars hook. (Also... the steeper the gears, the more friction. The more friction, the more power is robbed.)
Same motor/trans in both cars.
4.10/28" tires
3.73/26" tires
(im ball parking without doing the math... assume mph per gear is identical)
Which is faster accelerating?
To me... its a no brainer which one you should run. Less tire...less drag... less gear...less friction. More tire....more drag....more gear...more friction
For example: Which do you think is faster assuming both cars hook. (Also... the steeper the gears, the more friction. The more friction, the more power is robbed.)
Same motor/trans in both cars.
4.10/28" tires
3.73/26" tires
(im ball parking without doing the math... assume mph per gear is identical)
Which is faster accelerating?
To me... its a no brainer which one you should run. Less tire...less drag... less gear...less friction. More tire....more drag....more gear...more friction
Ideally he will either raise his shift points, put less gear in it, or both.
The assumption was to just a quick rematch with a taller tire though ("Throw another inch of tire under it"), which I agree with. It's a "bandaid", but a 1" taller tire will help nonetheless without having to open anything up. It wont hurt him like insinuated.
If he had the proper gearing then of course run the smaller tire.
The assumption was to just a quick rematch with a taller tire though ("Throw another inch of tire under it"), which I agree with. It's a "bandaid", but a 1" taller tire will help nonetheless without having to open anything up. It wont hurt him like insinuated.
If he had the proper gearing then of course run the smaller tire.