amda1 wrote:lol wow..I'm sure that vette could be outrun by a fully tuned TRD supra
I bet... What is the point to buy a junk everyday commuter car and spend 10 grand on it to "Hook" it up? why not just save your cash and buy a used corvette or a real sports car?
it all depends on how much boost they have it tuned at, but in that competition it had 1100 horsepower. hennessey said there was a "sizeable amount of boost" left
@ korge, because the fun is the tuning it up. The feeling of turning this stock car into this killer on the 1/4 mile all by yourself. You become besotted with the car, always trying to improve the look, and upgrading the body to match current styles. It is basically just great fun.
Making slow and steady progress, choosing every single part, bespoke kits, its all up to you to match it exactly to your taste. It is about look as much as performance.
But if only performance is increased, then I guess people prefer it to a sports car, due to the look on peoples faces when the underdog wins
I don't know why we are arguing. This is ONLY a souped up vette. It's still old tech, still shiznit quality. For the buck, preformance is good, but for that kind of money the most people that can afford that will buy something of exotic class, not a dusty vette. And in the end, we live in a world where oil price is keep growing and growing (at least in EU) so a conversion of a car that is more than fast enough stock, please...
in price the vette is comparable to a very low-end priced exotic. at 65,000 $ (i think) it is relatively cheap. gas prices have actually gone down a little bit around here been hovering around 2.10 gal
I don't see what the big deal with threads like this is at all. The skyline thread is just "omG SkyLinZ RUle LOL!11111111" and this thread really isn't worthy of being in the forum. TT Vette? Big deal. TT Viper? Big deal. Just shows that if you throw enough money at it, you can turn a big lumbering American car into a big lumbering American car with an enormous price tag and even bigger horsepower figures, that's completey unusable in the real world. And that impresses no-one.
Besides, it's no big deal. It's not THAT great on bang-for-buck, there are Skylines, Supras and 4-door M3's putting out 1000 at the wheels built for under £30k. And alot of the time they don't need big V8's or Twin Turbos to make that kind of power figure. In fact, thinking about it logically, using a single turbo makes the cars more usable than a twin turbo setup. If the turbo is only kicking in at 3500rpm+, then at least theres a 3500rpm dead zone where the car drives at least similarly to how it originally did; therefore making it usable in everyday driving. TT setups are designed to reduge this area when the engine essentially works N/A, and will tend to result in nothing more than burnouts and melted tyres.
It's just all about penis size. Uber-horsepower (non-classic) muscles are just for people with doodle to small to buy usable supercars; they make up for what they lack in the trouser department with big HP claims.
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The difference between 2.8 and 2.5s is for a human unnoticable, so it really doesn't matter. I'll stick to Grez this time, to achieve 0-60 under 3s you need to be one hell of a driver, not to mention to control all the neccesary torque. Only high end drag cars, dragsters, jet cars and f1 cars, i really doubt you can push other 4 wheeler form 0-60 lower than 3s. Remember, Hennesay claimed Venom 1000TT can go 0-60 in 2,2s and in the end it did 3s flat.
