has anyone seen the new magazing that tested a z06 corvette TT? well i forget what magazine it was in, but since the test car had stock tires on, once the turbos would spool up the tires would be induced into a spin, and once in second gear would spin all the way through, so they skipped 2nd and did still manangaed a 0-60 of 3.9. they did say that you could buy a body kit that would allow for much wider tires in the back but that they were not able to test that version, well if they can get a 0-60 of 3.9 by skipping 2nd i would say that a sub 3sec time might be possible if the get the wider tires. what do you think?

 

I doubt wider tires alone would help too much.

Probably an improvement of a couple tenths of a second max.

Traction control, a couple of hundred additional horses and removal of all non-essential interior components would do it.

 

Keep in mind that F1 car does 0-60mph in about 2.5 secs. F1 car weights 1/4 of the Vette, has 1000hp, 7 gears (which change faster than anything on this planet) and tyres wider than anything on a road car. Also, the tyres are made practically out of super-glue.

Point is, nothing on the road can get anywhere close to an F1 car. Even the road McLaren with it's weight of 1100kg and 450kW (600+hp) and every 'best' component/part obtainable does 0-60mph in 'only' about 3.4secs.

 

I bet with the wider tires, that corvette could get down to atleast the low 3s in the 0-60.

 

well that vette was a z06TT a c-5 turbo (by ligenfenter sp?) did it in 3.2sec.

 

Where do you get your information? A modern F1 car has just over 800bhp, not 1000.

I remember a test of a Williams back in the 3.5L days. It did 0 to 100mph (160km/h) and back to zero in just over 4 seconds. I suspect an F1 car can therefore do 0-60 in much less than 2 seconds.

 

it was car and driver by the way

 

yeah car and driver did a test of the jaguar car and when they only slightly pushed the car they got 0-60 of 3.5, of course jaguar would not allow for an all out test to see its tru limits so you get the idea.

 

The July Car & Driver has test of two Lingfelter Z06's. One was the above mentioned TT that went from 0 - 60 in 3.9 by skipping 2nd gear and a 427.6 cu in (7007cc) that ran 0 - 60 in 3.4. They were able to put the power down without breaking the tires loose in the non-turbo car. The 427 ran the quarter in 11.7 sec @ 124 mph while the TT ran it in 11.5 sec @ 133 mph. The TT hit 150 mph in only 14.9 seconds! BTW, both cars were tested on street tires.

 

Good heaven!!!I wish Honda engineers would throw more of those F1 technologies in the STooK.