Is there any other kind of racing? No offence dude but you sound like a ricer. If the LS1 screws up, if the Stang has a perfect launch, if they only race to 70 mph. Come guys man up and race a 1/4 from a dig.

 

Its called street racing, it usually happens on 2 lane highways where quarter miles arent marked............. and no i hate ricers. lol, but it is sounding like an episode of pinks! He will get beat if all things are equal, and it will take a miracle for him to win. I sometimes race on a highway where i dont go over 65 or 70 due to the area. I do race the 1/4 at IRP in indy. Only raced once when i first got my car, best time was a 14.3s and dont remember the trap speed, think around 98 or 99....oh well.

 

Run him and find out. If you run it up to 100+ it's going to be ugly...very. His cam is slightly less aggressive then the 98-00 ls1's...but he has a ls6 intake manifold and it breathes a lot better up top. He could also have the optional 3.23's...the rpo code is GU5 for 3.23's and GU2 for 2.73's incase he doesn't know which gearing he has. Unlike stangs, here isn't a huge difference between the A4 and M6 ls1's in a drag race from a dig performance wise...but I will say for a stock auto a 40 roll is the worst speed to go from for him. The tranny won't kick down so it takes a few seconds to get going....but if he knows his car he won't run from that speed anyway. Good luck

 

I think that you are going to lose pretty badly from a dig or roll, unless you catch him at 40 like previously mentioned. He has an 01 so he most likely was around 300rwhp because its an auto. So he will still have a good hp advantage, could be more if he hyperteched it(sometimes hypertechs make you lsoe power though). I think you should wait for the ORX-pipe and long tubes. Also get you a set of sticky rear tires, like some Nitto Drag Radials or MT Drag Radials. With full bolt-ons and some good tires you can make a race of it.
I also would like to point out for the stories of i stayed with an LS1 and i have minor bolt-ons. Most likely the LS1 wasnt going WOT. I do this sometimes to play around with other cars. To give you a bit of an idea of what your up against, i raced a Mustang GT the other day and my 2nd gear recently broke. I shifted from 1st to third, he caught up but once i got it to 60, i took off on him again. I still beat the GT without using 2nd. But good luck.

 

Ask around the site, I am VERY familiar with street racing. However we still still do that from a dig and not this ghey from a roll crap

 

I dont race from rolls, i think its stupid. I would rather race from a dig neday.JD ur from chicago area? U should make a trip to indy to go to IRP this summer, but i wanna get my catback first! I am not too far away, i am in lafayette IN right now. yeah its hard to make up for the horsepower adantage, the only way he could win for sure is juice. I dont think long tubes and a ORh/xpipe will make a huge difference. JUICE HER UP MAN!!! LOL! have a good one

 

Well really its the tires that will make a pretty good difference for you. When i first put my Drag Radials on it was so much fun and made a huge difference. About a week after i got them i raced my friends Camaro SS. On the freeway from 1st gear at around 20(yes we slowed down to 20)we would take off. During the 1st-2nd shift i would pull 2-3 car lengths on him. When we raced starting at 60 in 2nd gear, we where dead even. Get a set of good racing tires(drag tires), full bolt-ons, and now that i think of it maybe up the gears to 4:10's. This should put you in the ballpark of making it a race.

 

DRs, and slap a shot on the 2V, otherwise, you're SOL. BTW, Pewter, how did your 2nd gear break?

 

We all know LS1s are fast, but we've all got to come to an agreement about how much underrated they were. Im having trouble believing that the car has 360bhp, especially when the corvettes are rated at 350, and I dont think chevy would underrate their dream machine for any reason (like they underrated the other LS1s so the vette would still sell). If anything, it makes marketing sense to OVERrate the vette and underrate the others.

 

No, the Vettes were slightly underrated (not by much), but they were. And besides a Fbody will, on average, put down a bit more power than a Vette of the same year due to IRS.