Stone629

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Mods in sig.

Basically, I'm headed to Wilmington this morning to visit my grandmother, and on the way I was cruising behind a convertible manual C5 Vette with a nice looking/sounding cat-back. Looked like SLP tips imo. We have about 65 miles of straight line interstate and very few cars, so it was a good place to mess around. So he is in front of me and out of nowhere takes off leaving me in his dust. I eventually catch back up and start to creep up his right side. Once I had my front tires midway up his door, I downshift to 3rd and hold my speed. He does the same, but doesn't ever give me a chance to get fully lined up with him. The whole time I'm thinking this is going to be ugly. So we are both down shifted and he takes the hit, with me still a nose behind. There was only a fraction of second difference between him and I going WOT, so it was all good. This all starts off at about 65mph. So we take off and right away I pull even with him. My guess is I must of just been at a higher RPM than him from the get go to jump like that. We stay dead even for several seconds, but he ends up pinging off the rev limit at about 100mph, resulting in me gaining a few feet. As we continue past 100 mph, he slowly puts my front bumper at his rear tires. We shut it down at 120 mph. I got beside him and gave him a thumbs up, and slowed my ass down

Here's my confusion. I know a manual C5 is good for a 109 or 110 mph trap speed. The average driver probably runs 107-108, but this guy was squeezing everything he had out of that Vette. I've only trapped a best of 104, although that was done through a clutch slipping through 2nd and 3rd gears. I don't know if simply starting from a roll where I don't have to worry as much about clutch slip makes that much difference or what. In other words, I feel like that Vette should've put more like 2 cars on me at least. It was chilly yesterday morning and I've done an intake since the last time I went to the track, so I'm probably good for a 106 mph trap as it sits, but still. Posted this on another forum and one of the members pointed out that the vette could've started in 2nd at that speed, and may have started in 3rd instead, putting me in a better spot. Still felt good to hang in there so close, lol.

BLKBOLTSS

SLPs are bad about making a vette sound way faster than it is.

hawlyns711

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you're comparing fwd drag racing to rwd drag racing in your last paragraph, although good for an average HP estimate, rwd is ftw.

Shibito

Likely that the Vette was in 3rd. Still, you did good. I've seen weirder **** happen on the street.

blackvette101

go back to the track see what you run its probably higher than 104. or the guy didn't shift at redline/ or his car was messed up.

m0ore4ustin391

Very true.

Hockeyman

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nice runs man, I ran a c5 auto vert a while back and I kept up pretty good. Sounds like fun!

Stone629

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True. I'm not a big fan of SLP.

Good point. This is my first fwd car, so its definitely an adjustment. I can run 2.1 60s pretty consistently at the track, but 1st gear is basicaly worthless on the street. I'm sure if I was making a little more power, those 60s would only get worse.

Will do, hopefully this coming Sunday. Eh, highly doubtful anything was wrong with his car. It ran strong and looked amazing. Those older Vette owners tend to stay on top of their shat. I'm thinking it should trap a bit higher with the cooler air and extra mod.

Thanks man! I remember the 1st time I ever ran into a modded Balt. I was driving an 04 GTO automatic back then, but it had full bolt-ons, a tune, etc. That damn Balt stayed right on my door from 45 mph to 100 mph where we let off. The GTO was running 12.8 at 109, so that Balt had some ***** for sure.