0TheSmokingTire

Hey everyone,

The Smoking Tire has a new episode up. We took a ZR1 to the Mojave Mile, to see if Matt could hit his goal of 180MPH and to review the car. As anyone here knows, this car is insanely fast. And it looks really really good surrounded by blue skies and a desert. I tried to embed the player and it won't work. And I am in now way an IT person. So I apologize for you having to click a link. I know how heavy a mouse can be.

Hope you like it.

Zack

TOBASCO

bluez06ny

Nice!

...Lower the suspension, block off brake ducts, and pump up the front tires then maybe you'll get to 180!

peter pan

Nice Vid and nothing like running the flying mile, I have enjoyed my trips down the Texas Mile

WestPalmCorvette

Very nice
Would be cool to compare ZR1 to Z06 to GS to Base in a mile run
Thanks for posting

Jawnathin

Cool video.

BTW, you can embed Youtube Videos by following the instructions here...

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/help...be-videos.html

2006c6keller

The biggest problem with the ZR1 is "hooking up" out of the blocks. This is where the ZR1 becomes lame, is too far behind to catch up unless covering an exrtemely lot of real estate, especially after the mile and that's no good for a one mile race.

0TheSmokingTire

Chevy probably wouldn't like us if we changed the suspension. We tried adding air to the tires, didn't do much. Wind and temp were our foes that day.

SSTEVEGS

Fun video. Anybody here believe the "stock" GTR was faster than the ZR1? I don't.

0TheSmokingTire

Thanks man. Much much better.

The GTR that was faster was modded. Matt wrote this today about the GTR people yelling on YouTube.
http://www.thesmokingtire.com/2011/l...say-this-once/

OnPoint

At sea level in good conditions, most ZRs run the standing mile in low 180s. Most stock Zs in similar condition run high 160s, and regular coupes are in the 150s.

Haven't seen any GS run the mile at any of the mile events I've run in, but I would think their trap speed would be a couple mph lower than the narrow body.