Beating a c5 corvette
 

what will it take to beat a c5 corvette raced my a friend of mine and i got beat.
i have an auto and bone stock right now,i am tired of him running his mouth and ready to take him
out.can u guys help me he is stock too right now.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

nobody can help.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Get a Z06?

Seriously dude, want to put some parameters on that (e.g. what you are willing to spend, is it just this one race or you want your mustang to be consistently fast, etc.)?

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

slash his tires:eek:

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Get a zex 125 shot!If you know how to drive you will beat his @ss!You can find used zex kits for around 400-500 bucks.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

unfortunatelly for us ... vettes are pretty handy and easy to mod, and respond very good without spending a lot of $$$.

But since u're an auto... the major mods u can do for it is a CaI+Tune, gears and Torque Converter. That´ll help you cut around .8 sec of the 1/4 mile.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Seriously.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

i am going to mod anyway but i would like to beat this guy the way you guys are talking
its like it cant be done without a supercharger,has a 2000 corvette dont they only have 350 horsepower.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_5_6.gifI see you spending a lot of money to beat your friend

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

They weigh a lot less. FI, tune, and gears would be great. Not sure what kinda driver you or he is, possibly get a nitrous setup.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Check my sig.I beat vettes( C5 & C6s.Raced one Zo^ as well & beat him).You guys have to remembver that while yes the Vette may be superior to our car but more than 95% of the owners cant drive them!

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

I've seen C5s run high 13s/ low 14s at the track before... it's doable, I'd get a CAI + tune, gears, and tires. You should be pretty close if not beating him by then.

How much did he beat you by?

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

If he's a friend and you are tired of him running his mouth, either tell him so or find new friends. Regardless of what they tell you on the playground, it doesn't matter if you have a faster car than your friend.

So you are tired of him running his mouth so you mod your Mustang to beat him. He gets tired of you running your mouth so he mods his Vette to beat you. You are tired of him running his mouth, so you mod your Mustang even more to beat him, etc. Next thing you know you end up like the black Mustang and red Vette I saw mangled off the road in the spring while driving to work. A bruised ego heals faster than a broken neck.

/preach off

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

+1 what did he beat you by?

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

To give you a bit of an idea; my father has a 2000 vette auto convertible. I can almost hang with him until 60mph. After that, he walks away from me at a pretty good clip. Here are my mods and good luck!

C&L intake w/ Brents 93 tune.
udp's
electric water pump
o/r h pipe
flowmasters
3.73's

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

I have a 01 Vette, for my GT to beat it : 100 shot NOS and 410 gears. Its still a good race. My wife love to drive the Vette and challenge me. Trust me the bottle better be warm. I haven't raced her since adding pulleys and Kooks exhaust system. Good luck with your challenge!

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

thats weird that you guys have had those problems against a STOCK c5... i have raced 2 of them, 1st one was some old guy in a vert and he only had an exhaust, i only had headers, xpipe, and catback. he pulled in the beginning and by 60 he pulled 1 car on me and then we stopped pulling and he stayed 1 car ahead til 100 then we stopped (he would have taken me after that) 2nd one i had CAI tune and the mods i listed above. pulled slowly til about 60 and then quit pulling, it was opposite of the first one. had him by a car. stopped around 110.
Maybe he was a bad driver and i was nailin the gears. But i would definatly go with CAI+tune, if u cant afford the gears + install go with an xpipe. if u have the money get the gears and/or bottle.
C5's arent ****, never seena stocker go faster then 13.7 stock (****ty drivers maybe)

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Thats what I did. an 08

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

I beat c5 corvettes when I had just an intake/tune. I now beat c6 corvettes. In a few months I will be beating c6 z06's...

-Jeff

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

I tried to race a c5 once, but he ran away from me. Must have heard my blower as I blew through a yellow light to catch up to him.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

That is what I like to here lol... moose, what did you end up running at bradenton?

-Jeff

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Its silly to try and a buddies car. All they will do is spend more money and beat you back. All these little battles faught for a never ending war.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Bmr, thats half the fun IMO!

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

If you've got the money for it, go right ahead. My thing is if OP really wants to beat him, they should just buy a supercharger and whoop the crap out of the c5. If they're trying to buy just enough to beat him, then they probably don't have a lot of disposable income and won't be able to afford to upgrade the car more once the c5 does some modding.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

C-5 vettes are nothing. I beat them on motor all day with basic bolt ons. You should have no problem.

On spray im right there with a new STOCK Z06, and pull the C-6 pretty hard.

You reallly dont have to spend too much $$$ to beat him, just depends on how much you want to beat him by.

RE: Beating a c5 corvette
 

Ive raced a c-5 that has a high stall converter and a procharger pushing 8 lbs, exhaust and a couple other mods that I dont remember as well as slicks and beat him by 3 tenths. most of your common mods as well as a stall converter you should be able to take him, that is if you have enough tire to hook up