ZR-1 top end is hard to hang with.

[rhipsher]

On the way home last night this hemi charger with blacked out windows and headers thought he was gonna school me. Hahaha! Boy was he wrong. We were paceing eachother at 120mph with me behind him. And I pulled around him in 4th gear and just freaken blew past him and I watched him disappear in my rear veiw mirror as he tried to hang. When I hit 158mph he was gone. I slowed back down to 80 it took him 4 minutes to catch back up to me. He cruises up beside me at about 40 and I suppose he wanted to get a closer look at the car that just blasted away from him at a 120mph roll. He probably wondered if it was the same car because I was literally out of his site. Then I slowed down and was driving like grandma after exiting the freeway. That's always fun to do.
Even 21 years later the top end of our cars is just spectacular.

[XfireZ51]

Originally Posted by rhipsher

On the way home last night this hemi charger with blacked out windows and headers thought he was gonna school me. Hahaha! Boy was he wrong. We were paceing eachother at 120mph with me behind him. And I pulled around him in 4th gear and just freaken blew past him and I watched him disappear in my rear veiw mirror as he tried to hang. When I hit 158mph he was gone. I slowed back down to 80 it took him 4 minutes to catch back up to me. He cruises up beside me at about 40 and I suppose he wanted to get a closer look at the car that just blasted away from him at a 120mph roll. He probably wondered if it was the same car because I was literally out of his site. Then I slowed down and was driving like grandma after exiting the freeway. That's always fun to do.
Even 21 years later the top end of our cars is just spectacular.

The fact that he is trying to
drive a brick thru the air didn't help. Top end is what our cars were really built for.

[rhipsher]

Originally Posted by XfireZ51

The fact that he is trying to
drive a brick thru the air didn't help. Top end is what our cars were really built for.

You got that right Dom. But people will still try. You can make allot of cars fast off the line but 100mph and up our cars are in their element. That's where they dominant.

[Hammer]

Nice kill story.
You're correct though, the top end charge is amazing.
Best one I have is at the drags with a 70 Camaro that was sandbagging me. He caught me at the 330 ft. mark and played the rest of the way down, putting a fender on me now and then. Problem was, he lost the fender about the 1000 ft mark and couldn't get it back. As most know, the 1000 mark is where these cars are in their zone, pulling like a freight train.

[todesengel]

It's the vtec yo!

[rhipsher]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Nice kill story.
You're correct though, the top end charge is amazing.
Best one I have is at the drags with a 70 Camaro that was sandbagging me. He caught me at the 330 ft. mark and played the rest of the way down, putting a fender on me now and then. Problem was, he lost the fender about the 1000 ft mark and couldn't get it back. As most know, the 1000 mark is where these cars are in their zone, pulling like a freight train.

yep! As many C6Z06's as Ive drag raced against im always neck and neck with them down 3/4 of the way down the strip and even are ahead of them out of the hole but that last 100 feet of the 1/4 mile they come flying by me 20 miles an hour faster than me. At that point though its just a matter of hp. 357rwhp vs 435rwhp.

[todesengel]

same reason you never roll race a big single turbo supra. You think lt5's have pull over 5k, try a gt4788 stroked 2j. When you can smack liter bikes around you know you have top end

Nice to murder a newer car eh? lol

[XfireZ51]

Originally Posted by rhipsher

yep! As many C6Z06's as Ive drag raced against im always neck and neck with them down 3/4 of the way down the strip and even are ahead of them out of the hole but that last 100 feet of the 1/4 mile they come flying by me 20 miles an hour faster than me. At that point though its just a matter of hp. 357rwhp vs 435rwhp.

Don't forget we're talking about giving away nearly 1.7L. You just need to put intake and exhaust cams on that thing. It'll be a much closer race. And a
427 LT-5 will definitely be the equal of an LS-7.

[Vetman]

Where on this planet can u race like that (158 mph) with any kind of safety margin?

[ZRXMAX]

Originally Posted by Vetman

Where on this planet can u race like that (158 mph) with any kind of safety margin?

Only on wide deserted roads with no one in sight.