Raced a New Z06

[Anthony]

Originally posted by clayfoushee


I'm still just scratching my head at why most US guys are so hung up on the 1/4 mi., standing start, drag strip times on cars that were designed as road racing machines........Cobras included.

It's rather insulting to Cobras, Lambos, Ferraris, Porsches, Ford GTs and Corvettes to argue about which is the best drag-racing machine.

Wanna be an amateur drag racer........go buy an NOx bottle, blower, and fat slicks and put them on the 90's Mustang or Camaro of your choice, or you could go Honda or Toyota.

To me, Lbs/hp is a just another way to rate a cars potential, power accelertion potential. It's hard to get an idea of that from a road course. However, the 1/4 mile is a good test of that. I would like to know what Mark Donohue's porshe 917-30 would do in the 1/4 (?1200 hp, 1800 lbs)? I think he said something like you don't have enough of power until you can spin the tires on the WHOLE straight from one turn to the next.

To me, driving on a road course is what it's all about. But drag racing is fun as well.

To me, adding NO2, blowers, turbo's is kind of like cheating. Normally aspirated is the true man's way. Having said that, I plan on installing a dual paxton set up, with dual turbos, and a 250 hp NO2 on my cobra.

Nah, just kidding.