Good info for most of us regulars here at CZ28.Com

 

 

Youre confirming alot of what I was trying to say. The DOT or slicks Im guessing you use essentiall turn to something kinda akin to duct tape grabbing the track which Im sure you know. Even a set of Slicks on a quick car need track thats had a few good slicks ran beforehand so the track can grab the tires back to get a good or even a safe run. Yes Ive this go very bad... Point I think we agree on is burnouts dont help street tires, but I think some starters have mentioned burnouts can hurt street tires but its been a long time so I may not remember that correctly.

yes that does hurt things and it is not that rare. Starters sometimes have to go over and mop up from water left on the line.

Exactly. I certainly wouldnt take this run as Gospel and compare it to runs at different tracks at different conditions. The burnout was all show and may have hurt the run. Barometer and temp are also a factor as well as a dozen other things.

 

Ok, hang on a second here, the guy running the Camaro owns/works at a performance shop??? Then you'd THINK he's used to running way more powerful cars than a "measely" ~426 HP 2010 Camaro SS?!

If you've done ANY drag racing, and driven the car you're about to drag race AT ALL, any "competent driver" SHOULD be able to do better than a ~13.6 @ 108!?!? That's pretty f'n lame if you ask me, so I'll throw the at it too. If this were just some Joe Blow-Bought-a-Camaro, I'd forgive them. But a guy who works at a shop? C'mon. If I were around performance cars all day, every day, I'd damn well know how to drive them better than that! (fact is, I'm not, yet I HAVE driven WAY better than that!)

Also, did the guy only do ONE single run? Not even a second "make-up" run?? Hmmm. Who goes to the strip and does ONE crappy run and walks away?

And for the record, Mr. 97z28/m6 ran a 13.75 in a bone-stock '97 Z28, not 13.8 ... I was there to witness it . So really, the 2010 "only" ran ~.15 seconds faster!

 

He probably only posted the slowest run of the day
Where's the Henneescrewed picture?

 

I'd hope this isn't a true sign of what the car can do, but I don't think we should be so fast to go by it.

 

Why would it? C&D (or M/T I can't remember) got the car to go 13.0. There drivers are never that great. This guy obviously doesn't know what he is doing.

 

I never trust magazine tests. I think we should all wait for more results to make a decision.

 

Oh he's such a dork because he's probably a beginner and you could do better, good for you.

 

That looks like a pretty good time to me. Look at the 60' - 2.36? If he can pull a 2.0 he should knock .7 seconds off his time. And that is completely unmodded. Those cars will be easy high 11's with bolt-ons by the end of the summer.

-Geoff

 

I guess so!? I mean seriously, who goes to the track and does ONE run?????? There's no way they'd post the slowest time, so that must be the best he did?

In the CAR'S defence, my LS1 didn't impress me on either of my first two visits to the track, with very low mileage on the car. Granted, it was a 2.73 geared automatic, so not exactly the fastest combo, but it was about ~6 tenths slower than a few months later, with a few thousand miles on the clock, and no other changes . Maybe there's still hope for this car/driver?

I'd still like to run one myself though ... I've managed to be somewhat quick & consistant at the track, so I still think I could do better than that .

Heck, my bone-stock LS1, with 3.23 gears behind the T56, managed to do a 13.4 @ 107 on my very first run at the track! (this was after doing the 6-speed swap). 3.90 gears and a set of headers, and I pulled a 12.8 @ 110 .

 

Remember that this run was done by Hennessey. There bussiness is to sell tuner cars. It might not be in there best interest to do the best run they can with the new camaro. That way there tuner camaro would look all that much better. I'd like to see a video comparison of the run on Youtube and one of there finished tuner car and see if they drive there modifide car the same way

 

Definetly break in the motor first, and learn the ins-and-outs of the car. Then we will see what it can do!

 

Good mph at least. I saw a GT500 run a 13.5 at Milan a couple years ago and that has 70 more ponies than the Camaro. Ya just gotta get used to the car.

 

Woah. Hating is strong in this thread. Not bad, with some practice it will run right with LS1s. Which is about what I expected. :/