Originally posted by poopnut2
Whoever said 310fwhp. I'm sure he means flywheel horsepower, let off him people. And actually, that's an underrated power rating. They usually dyno right around 300rwhp or sometimes even more(the factory freaks).
In my 87' with stock gears, offroad h-pipe, speed-density car I raced an LT-1 Z-28 and it was no contest, I pulled on him like he was sitting still. I know he wanted to race because he reved at me and punched it first. It was about a 25mph. This was with my stock 2.73 gears too.
Later in mods, 3.73's, Cold-air, offroad H-pipe, I came up against an LS-1 Z-28 driven by some teen who had just pulled out of his highschool parking lot. His friend was with him and I think he thought he was gonna get an easy kill. We punched it when I was in 2nd and I stayed dead even with him until about half-way through 3rd. The road we were on was starting to curve right really hard so we both let off. I was surprised to say the least.
Man, I loved my speed-density car. Oh well, the cam should make up for it now.
As for 99+GT's, you should have a good race with LT-1's, stock for stock your GT should win but you should invest in higher gears ASAP. An LS-1 should beat you easily. Even a modded GT shouldn't hang with an LS-1 all the way through the speedo. You have a 200lbs weight advantage so gears, exhaust, pulleys, cold air, and a good set of tires will put you ahead from a stop, but on the freeway your screwed until you port the heads or put a blower or NO2 on it.
Thats pretty impressive that an offroad H Pipe would bridge the 50-60 Hp difference between the 87 and an LT1. It would be hard enough to beat an LT1 with your nealy stock 87 as is, but no contest? Please. There are many variables in racing...the LT1 could have been ragged out, piss poorly driven, had a 400 lb animal in the trunk, who knows....but i can not think of any that would cause that bad of a defeat. What do you trap in the quater? To simply say you made it look like he was not moving would seem like you raced a 3.4 Liter.