Nice kill on C6 Vette

[cudadave72]

I'm another person who is against street racing but this guy had it coming to him. My wife and I were on our way back from dinner and an evening cruise. As I was pulling up the off ramp from the freeway to my home I noticed some head lights flying up behind me. As I was came to the stop sign I started hearing the guy behind me reving his car up like he was tring to blow it up. Low-n-behold its a new C6 Vette. My first reaction is to ignore him and continue on my way especially with my wife in the car. As I pull away the Vette literally pushes his nose within inches of my bumper. At this point I've had enough, told my wife to hold on and nailed it. As I looked in the rear view mirror I could watch the distance between our cars fade apart!! As I appoached the next light he comes flying back up on my bumper. Again as we pull away I nailed it and put some distance between us. I notice that he hit the brakes hard and pulls into a gas station so I u-turn to see whats up. When I come up beside them I can still see a shocked look on their faces. I tell them that they have a nice car and what did they have done to it. The guy(s) tells me that it has a Procharger on it but its not running right. They go on to tell me how suprised they were when I punched the gas pedal that they were not expecting my Cuda to get off that hard. He also made a comment about my Drag Radials and I reply by telling him I ride prepared! It had all the markings of a ZO6 but I have to believe it was a stock vette with exhaust and a supercharger. I never asked but I have a hard time believeing that I would pull on a supercharged Z06. Either way I was happy to have put his ego back in check!!!

[71chally416]

Nice kill     I've been hoping for a shot at a new Z06. Just a few Mustangs (One a newer Cobra), some ricers and my buddies high 12 second Dart so far. He did get raped by a Z06 from a roll (the owner didn't want to race for a dig cause he was afraid of breakin his rear.. ) and said I beat him much worse, so I'm looking forward to that when it comes.

So you like your tires? What size are you using??

[nivvy]

Muscle cars will always be looked at as the kings of the road and people will try to take a shot at you.... I think its great when the "NEW" cars get their buts wooped........   

[cudadave72]

So you like your tires? What size are you using??

I'm running M/T drag radials 275/60/15. I love em! From a slow roll they hook and go which was a big plus last night.

Muscle cars will always be looked at as the kings of the road and people will try to take a shot at you.... I think its great when the "NEW" cars get their buts wooped........  

I think most people see it that way. I honestly think these guys thought I was a joke at first. I have several friends that have Vettes but the owner of this one seem like a typical Corvette owner, very cocky and full of excuses. I had to make sure he knew I was all muscle cause he made the assumption I had gas on the car. I made him feel even worse by telling him it was a "stock" 340 with just heads and cam. I forgot to mention the extra 76 cu in of displacement amoung other things! Like I said before I think it was just a base vette made to look like a Z06. A Z06 with any kind of supercharger should be a solid mid 10 second car at around 130mph plus in the quartermile. A standard Vette w/ a Procharger would make more since. It was also good that we got to hit it off from a very low roll as I am pretty sure he could have strolled on me from a highway roll. Anyways I was very pleased!!

[moparmaniac59]

Cool story,
Thanks for sharing it. I get ricers all the time roll up next to the Challenger at a stop light and start revving the engine and looking over to me for a nod. I'm not into street racing as I've lost my license a time or two due to my own stupidity, but I'm not beyond showing a punk what a muscle car can do given the right circumstances. I usually look over at them while they are revving their engine and do a big yawn and then drive off!! You can usually smell smoke and it ain't coming from the tires!!!


                                                               Matt B.

[Oldschool]

Cool kill!        It's always nice when you slay some Vette dudes....       

[IMNCARN82]

Was he wearing a pink shirt?  Or white pants?   
 
Nice kill!   What did the wifey think?     I got an earfull last night     Don't go so fast.

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[cudadave72]

My wife was cool with it just because the Vette guy was egging it on so bad. I asked her afterwards what she thought and she said it was funny to see how embarrased the Vette owner was. Even she could tell!

[422STROKER]

Sweet, the stock Z06's are trapping like 120mph + in the 1/4.  Nice kill!

Tom

[nivvy]

The vette would still require a poweradder..... 

[71chally416]

   7.20 in the 1/8 is a mid to low 11 second in the 1/4, and the Z06 only does high 11's at best (if the rear don't break...)

[cudadave72]

Like I posted earlier I think this was a standard C6 done up to look like a Z06. The car had the "lambo" door thing done to it if that gives you an idea of what we are dealing with. I am very in tune with the late model sceen (I own a performance shop) and know that a well driven Z06 with a blower should have pulled on me pretty easily espeacially by the time I got to the top of second gear. My car averages around 95 mph in the eight mile which is probably around 120 in the quarter. Thats good enough to handle a stock ZO6 given the fact that my car leaves like a bat out of hell on the street. If it was infact a procharged Z06 maybe the guy couldnt drive worth a $hit or it was not running right like the guy told me (however that seems like the same excuse they always give after getting torched! ). On the other hand if it was a standard 430hp vette with just a 5lbs kit (like he said it was set up) then I feel what happened to him was more justifiable. All the same I'm still grinning ear to ear two days latter!!


BTW Let me throw some gas on the Cuda (which I'm going to do as soon as I upgrade the fuel system) and I wont have to worry about either one!!!

[71chally416]

I'd expect your car to do 11.30's at around 120~ in the 1/4 if you're carding 7.80's in the 1/8. EZ 10's with just a little hose in just 2nd and 3rd.

[hezzel]

  Nice kill

[74 340 4speed]

Nice Kill.  Is your car a stalled auto or a 4 speed? 

Stock C6 Z06s are pretty bad machines though.  A guy on one of the corvette forums got a 10.85 out of his car with only drag radials.  I think he had over a 100 passes in the car before he got that number but still.  High tens out of a street car that was really designed for handling is amazing.