STEALTH 99 C5

Mission accomplished ! 8.87 at 155Mph .

I got in on a last minute rental today and after 2 weeks of sh*t weather here in the Northeast , I was salivating at the chance to race today , everything fell into place , just like I needed it to .

The track was good , not great , and took some time to figure out , I had some promising runs in the beginning of the day , tried a few new things , had some traction problems and was under the gun by the end of the day , the rental closes at 430pm , it was 415pm and I still didn't have that 8-second slip , all day I kept leaving with less boost 2-3lbs and playing with tire pressures and finally ran ran a 9.08 at 156 , almost there , pulled a 1.47 60ft , I came back around , let the car cool down about 5 minutes and pulled in to the burnout box at 427pm , did a short burnout and staged , I got to the line and said f*ck it ! I knew I had to come out harder but wasn't sure if the track would hold because it wasn't earlier on , I came up on the transbrake saw 5lbs and let it rip , I honestly knew it was an 8-second pass by about the 1000ft mark , the car was dancing around and pulling harder than it ever has , no way I was lifting , I hit the rev limiter right at the finish line . As Julio gave me the slip he told me it was a 9.01 , I was still happy , when I read it and it said 8.87 I almost jumped through the roof .

I finally got my 3700+lb pig in the 8's and I did it like I wanted to on the same wheels and tires I drive on every day , the car was driven to and from the track ( 145 miles round trip ) on my radials .

Here's a breakdown of the slip .

60ft-1.373

1/8th-5.744

1/8th MpH-125.00

1/4-8.874
Mph-155.29

And there's more in it , no boost controller , I'm running off the spring in my Tial-60 wastegate , the largest spring combo is 15lbs , I'm running a 14lbs spring , car is making 18lbs of boost . When I get the right boost controller I should be able to run another 3-4lbs of boost .

I'm very impressed with my Cartek 402 , the motor is a mild combo , no exotic parts , I was dead broke when I had Cartek build it , so it was a budget build .

Stock bore LS-2 block ,

Cartek Turbo Grind Hydraulic-roller cam , stock rocker arms .

Stock LS-6 Intake manifold , stock ported throttle body .

ETP 255 LS-1 Heads with stock Z-06 Exhaust manifolds .

I wonder what it would run with some 6-bolt LS-7 style heads and intake and a solid-roller ?? .

Huge props to the whole Cartek crew for all you've done for me over the last 8 years , I never could have done this with out you guys . .

On to the driveline ,

my RPM Built 4L80E Trans is a f*cking beast ! I hot lapped the car a few times today and it never skipped a beat , you guys are the kings of the C5/C6 driveline world


I've got some thinking to do over the winter , I may turn it up a notch , or I may just de-tune and enjoy it like I did most of this year . I achieved my goal of running 8's in a true street driven IRS A4 transmission C5 , now I will have to set a new goal .

The timeslip and video will be up shortly .

BillY2KFRC

Wow, congrats Mike. Must be nice saying you drive an 8 second car! That won't get old for awhile.

TRINIC5

Mike when I heard the news today from Julio I was so dam happy for you I had to yeld out yes,Thats one of the most happiest moments for you and imagine I am happy and its not my car.Congratulation and now you could relax over the winter and keep saying yes I did it.
Maybe one day and hope it to be soon I might have that same feelings.
Congratulation again and enjoy the memories of the good day.
Please don't break it but enjoy it. Let the world know you has one of the fastiest true daily driven street cars in America. PROVEN FACT.
:blueang el:

STEALTH 99 C5

Thanks Mario , Your next my friend .

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Here's the video ,

http://www.cartek.net/videos/stealth887.wmv

SS DNA

Wow!!!

You are flying there!

Blu

absolutely insane, driving a 9 second car to and from the track amazes me, but driving an 8 second car to and from the track is down right nasty!

C-4 Now

Wow!! That's impressive. Congrats!

Fartpipe

FLIPPIN AWESOME!!!!!!! I hope i never feel the need to go that fast or knowing my luck i'd be stuck at 9.0000001 for the rest of my life LOL!

simpleman68

Nice runs Mike
Especially the last run of the day. I've had my share of last pass teases that were only tenths from my target.
Scott

Allthrottleandsomebottle

Lets keep this to congrats to Mike and start no tuner wars............keep it to the topic at hand.
Steve

Secret237

Congrats, great job, I'm, still trying to get into the 12's ... my day will come.

nickolbag

Congrats Mike I couldn't imagine my daily driver running 8s.

Tsab

8's are Congrats

jdetar

I come rolling around to the forums after yet another long break and of course.. see Mike posting a new record!

Awesome man! Big congrats! You're always raising the bar for everyone else and keeping it up for Cartek! Great tuner, and great people.

Mario, you keeping your tranny together now?

STEALTH 99 C5

Damn Jason , I thought you moved to China or something , hope all is good with you . Thanks for the props .

jdetar

Yes all is well.. just a fast year, lots happened so I only got to enjoy about 300 miles on the vette. that's pretty sad but next year for sure it's coming out more. I'm still waiting for someone to make an intake. Last I heard ~4 months ago someone was looking into making a good LS7 intake as I didn't want to go sheetmetal. We'll see where that goes.

I'm glad to hear your RPM tranny is holding up well. That thing was a monster when I saw them building it. Those guys really know what they're doing. I couldn't be happier either.. although I'm not putting that kind of power through it.

2MchFun

Congrats man, that is frickin' awesome

GARY2004Z06

Awesome pass. Your car is running very strong.

STEALTH 99 C5

Thanks Gary , Congrats on your new PB .