This ones for you Shelby!

[Shelby07]

I remember when I was a kid in the 60's. Ford vs GM vs Mopar was always the big argument. The good thing is that the glory days of muscle cars are coming back. The cars back then were nothing more than huge engines with lousy suspensions and brakes. Todays cars are heads above them. I am looking forward to the new challenger (beautiful) and the new camaro (ugly as sin but quite a beast!)

In the spring we're gonna do an undersized pully, exhaust and tune. Maybe even do a Kenny Bell supercharger. We're getting about 8.5 on the boost now and much over 12 at this altitude (6K feet at Bandimere) would just be wasted in heat. The thing should put out about 650+ hp. You are right about the IRS. I can't get the car to hook up for anything, but once it gets going it goes like stink! We were turning 13.5 in the quarter mile at 112+ with 2.6 second 60 ft times. They should have been about 1.6 or so which would have gotten us into the high 12's with no problem.

[drew_goring]

I remember when I was a kid in the 60's. Ford vs GM vs Mopar was always the big argument. The good thing is that the glory days of muscle cars are coming back. The cars back then were nothing more than huge engines with lousy suspensions and brakes. Todays cars are heads above them. I am looking forward to the new challenger (beautiful) and the new camaro (ugly as sin but quite a beast!)

In the spring we're gonna do an undersized pully, exhaust and tune. Maybe even do a Kenny Bell supercharger. We're getting about 8.5 on the boost now and much over 12 at this altitude (6K feet at Bandimere) would just be wasted in heat. The thing should put out about 650+ hp. You are right about the IRS. I can't get the car to hook up for anything, but once it gets going it goes like stink! We were turning 13.5 in the quarter mile at 112+ with 2.6 second 60 ft times. They should have been about 1.6 or so which would have gotten us into the high 12's with no problem.

Wow yeah, knocking 1 second off your 60' time would probably put you in the low 12s. I should see if I can find the video of my buddy in his neon (srt-4) beating a Ford GT40 in the 1/4. Granted it was the first weekend the guy had his gt40...

But now my buddy in the neon is running low 11s on a completely stock motor which is pretty impressive considering he pretty much doubled the stock hp and this car is still his daily driver.

[Shelby07]

Wow yeah, knocking 1 second off your 60' time would probably put you in the low 12s. I should see if I can find the video of my buddy in his neon (srt-4) beating a Ford GT40 in the 1/4. Granted it was the first weekend the guy had his gt40...

But now my buddy in the neon is running low 11s on a completely stock motor which is pretty impressive considering he pretty much doubled the stock hp and this car is still his daily driver.

It takes a while to learn how to launch with all that torque. We have to feather the clutch all the way into 2nd gear otherwise we lose too much to wheel spin. I have a set of street slicks on order. That should help quite a bit, even in stock trim at this altitude.

I've chatted with a guy here who picked his up in Chicago and drove it out here. He says the performance at sea level is much stronger.

[Shelby07]

In case you haven't seen the concepts of the camaro and challenger yet...

[planenut]

In case you haven't seen the concepts of the camaro and challenger yet...

I should start saving now for one of those Camaro's. Do you remember when they come out, was it 2007?

[Shelby07]

http://www.camaro5.com/?p=31

[Lopaka]

Interesting.

[drew_goring]

It takes a while to learn how to launch with all that torque. We have to feather the clutch all the way into 2nd gear otherwise we lose too much to wheel spin. I have a set of street slicks on order. That should help quite a bit, even in stock trim at this altitude.

I've chatted with a guy here who picked his up in Chicago and drove it out here. He says the performance at sea level is much stronger.

Ahhh yes, having more torque than hp really sucks in a fwd. Lighting up the tires at 40mph is fun though

I forgot...CO is pretty high up eh?