98 Z28 vs. Supercharged 5.0
 

Going to the movies with my brother and a friend when two lanes we hear before we see this red 5.0. From the sound of the whine i knew it was supercharged. We roll up to the next light and basically when it turned green we both nail it. From the launch I pull about a half car. We are about dead even untill I shift into forth and he just pulls like four cars on me like I was standing still. We shut them down at about 95mph. I follow him to the nearest parking lot and pull up next to him. He's like Damn what do you have in that thing and I say nothing but gears and no muffler. I ask him if its blown and he says yes he just got the car dynoed and he said it was putting 460 to the wheels. Now I know everybody going to call BS and bla bla bla but thats what he said. He also said he just got the car out of the shop for a new clutch so he still getting used to it. He said he was pretty damn surprised that we hung with him for that long. His car was a mid eighties convt 5.0 supercharged. Mine 98 z28 4.10, no muffler, hypertech programming, filter, short throw shifter pretty much stock.

anything can happen on the street. Dont fuck with him on the track though lol.

Good run. Hell he may have been lying about how much power his car makes. You know how people can be. Anyways good run.

He probably wasn't lying about the power he probably just didn't have traction until 4th. Nice run.

I think King02SS has it.

If he "instantly" pulled 4 cars on you, it sounds like he just got traction.

I agree. :nod:
Sounds like traction loss.

But a good run reguardless... :cheers:

You shifted into fourth and were only at 95? WTF?????
Good death, though.

Nice death, and z06, I was thinking the same thing. He's got 4.10s though remember.

I shift into 4th at about 100.

3.73's though :)

good run. i used to own a vortech S/C'd 347 foxbody stang. it was a beast, and would pull like a mother, but like said above, it had all kinds of traction issues. first and second gear were almost useless on street tires, unless i feathered the clutch going into each gear for a good while. but once it got into 3rd, and 4th it really moved. i raced a few LS1's when i had it, and they did very well against me. thats one reason i went to the LS1. my car was making over 470rwhp, and a lightly modded LS1 was not so far back on quite a few runs i had on the street.

Exactly. This story is perfectly feasable because it happens to me all the time. A freaking 15 second Prelude beat me off the line and held his lead almost all the way through my first gear. Once I finally got traction I put like 3 bus lengths on him. When you make that much power and you are on street tires there is no hope in going from a stand still. :(

Sure there is...don't go WOT in the lower gears!

Its hard man. When your getting beat by a slower car you tell yourself let off the gas and get traction but instinct and pride take over and say
flooring it = win :jest:

haha. yea. nice death man. my freind has a 5.0 with 3:73 h/c/i/e and hes the same way in 1st and 2nd. just spins like a bitch.