First C6 Z06 into the 8's on pump gas
 

Street trim Corvette C6 Z06, full weight, drag radials, and it has air conditioning...

8.8 @ 154mph on 93 octane pump gas

Listen to this thing... and look how straight it tracks. Amazing. Can you imagine driving this on the street?

Had to post it... this is an "8" forum :D:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL2su8eMEIc

Wow

I'd hit it :)

Hah and he did it with one tail light out.

It's ridiculous.

Nice runs. Is the car an auto though?....sounds like it is

He could probably beat an RX-8 doing a run just in 5th gear, lol.

sounded like it was to me

Impressive, very nice run! I think it was autotragic too,none the less its fast as hell.

Yes, they converted it to a four speed 4L80 automatic with a stall converter. The Z06 wasn't offered with an auto.

From experience with the GTO, we have many Autos that are far faster than the Manuals at the drag strip. You throw a stall in one of the A4's, and you can get 60ft's that just aren't possible with an M6. It's just extremely hard to launch and effectively put almost 1000whp to the ground with a standard transmission. Can it be done? Sure, but when you get to the power levels this Vette is at, it just makes sense to do the conversion.

So, believe it or not, in the high-powered GM world, the autos are actually preferred to the manuals at the drag strip... reverse of the RX8.

Now, from a roll, completely different story :D: M6's rule from a roll.

Here's the dyno video BEFORE they did the auto conversion. Says the clutch was slipping at 954rwhp. I bet they were tuned for over 1000rwhp for those 8 second runs. Forged 427 LS7 aluminum block with a Vortech supercharger and meth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLMPIAfoUlE

Pfft, slow. My 8 could beat it....
.........
;(

Man oh man!!!
Love LS sound!

LOL ya, CyberPitz, you would own him bad... but let him "think" he's fast.

So what's the next level up from "bus lengths"? :D I figure by the "a tenth is a car length" saying in drag racing that this thing would put 40 lengths on me. The rule probably doesn't apply when getting destroyed that badly.

Hell yah. A high horsepower LSx engine sounds nasty and beautiful at the same time.

Sure, the Supra and Viper boys have had streetable 8 second cars for a pretty long while. Just nice to see the C6Z following suit.

As im sure Yax will tell you, Automatic Tranny's are the norm at the strip, at least for the really high hp applications. Most people dont know that pretty much ALL those old school muscle cars are either using 2 speed automatic Powerglide tranny's or T400 3 speed auto tranny's. I mean, could you imagine attempting to manually shift a car that is pushing over 800whp thats equipped with slicks and pulling a wheelie off the line? LOL no thanks.

Yax, any clue the size of the tires? Those radials didnt look too wide. I would like to see what that thing could pull with some fat slicks on the back. Those first pulls he didnt even rev it up at all prior to the launch, and the last 2 were prob only 2K rpm launches. Sick

That is just simply RUTHLESS!:eyetwitch

the second staging shot the sound was rediculous,,,,
got ballzzz!!!!

Yes, dead on there Jones, and the transmission in this car is basically a TH400 with overdrive... 4 speed so the owner can actually drive it on the street or highway. They said they had driven the car 30 miles on a cruise just before they went to the track and put down these numbers.

I'm almost sure the mh drag radials were 345's on 17's. I found the exact size a couple of days ago, but this video has been posted so many times all over the place now, and I cant find that damn forum thread where they had the info.

It's interesting it still has the IRS. I think if they put slicks on it, the back end of the car would just explode into a bunch of M&M sized pellets.:Eyecrazy:

Also, doesn't have a roll cage, uses stock C5 axles, built diff, wheels are CCW dragpack, and the scales weighed it at 3350 lbs with the driver, 3800rpm stall converter.

Awesome. Just awesome.

Can't wait to start getting some boost into my LS engine too.

Heh I was waiting for you to jump in here. That thing is wicked, isnt it.

You scratch the nitrous idea for some FI? Cool. My buddy had an APS TT kit on his GTO, and he was never really happy with it. When he finally blew up his stock internals LS2, he sold the APS kit and went to the STS along with a forged stroker 402.

Interested to see what you do... then you can run 8's easy :D