suprspooky

I just thought you all might enjoy seeing my near stock (headers/sidepipes) with 1992 street P295 50R 15's in a time trial run against a Hellcat (8 spd Auto). He blew by right near the 330' traps, but I had him for a while. Too much fun

jr9170

Great Video...

Bob K

But you looked really cool and that counts for a lot!

Bob K.

bkvette3

I would still take your '68 everytime. Beautiful car.

bj1k

Family sedans don't excite me . Don't care how fast they go. How fast do you have to get to the grocery store anyway ?

radiotexas

You win on the cool factor, hands down! But.......please be careful running all out on 24 year old tires. A 9 year old tire blew up like a bomb on me. Okay, I'll go back to being a wet blanket.

suprspooky

Thanks for the good vibes, I absolutely agree on the tire thing. I spent the Spring and Summer getting the fuel/oil leaks under control (you wanna talk scary, I should post pictures of the harmonic balancer that I replaced a month ago).

I just had to do some runs before winter teardown of the engine (to get a base line of course, not for fun)

lowbuck72

Great video, rooting for you all the way, but I don't understand. The L71 is a tri-power 427, right? When I was 19 years old. I was lucky enough to have a 1964 Sting Ray with a 327, powerglide, stock AFB, bias tires, and competed in the 1972 ALL Corvette Drags at OCIR in Southern California, took 2nd place overall (can't beat a powerglide for bracket racing) but ran 14.40's all day long. Why wasn't the L71 a lot quicker than 14.33?

radiotexas

I understand my Corvette brutha. I did my winter tear down last year. Had great results and wish the same for you.

suprspooky

It was my first ever 1/4 mile experience with anything, my best time trial was a 14.06@98 (with 32psi rears, forgot to lower the pressure in all of my excitement), so I'm thinking with more experience I could have gone quicker.

The engine is a 427 Tri-power 435hp, but I think it's tired, I'm planning on some sort of upgrade to it this winter (AFR Cyl. heads...) so it'll run on 91 oct gas. (it's a NOM car, CE block, but it's the real thing K66 ignition, correct Tach. etc.)

ChattanoogaJSB

Terrific sight and sound!

LS4 PILOT

He has twice the hp, near double FI and 45 grand more money in his car .......he should win the race.

Throw 50 grand in BB modern Chevy , superchargers , and tires and try again

BKbroiler

Everybody likes to downplay the performance of new cars - just put $50K in your Vette and you'll out run a Hellcat. That's probably true, but the new cars have to meet strict emission standards, get decent gas mileage and come with a warranty. You'll need more than $50K in any C3 to do all that.

suprspooky

I should just throw a Hellcat Hemi in it and call it good, except any fool can make big HP with a Blower.

ajrothm

I've beat a Hellcat in my 71'...


They do run bad *** though for 4700lb cars that still get 20 mpg... I like em a lot and I'm not a dodge person.

LT1M21Vette

Cool video, but the ZF 8 speed is awesome. There I said it.

BKbroiler

Hey Alan, what's with the C7? Did you get rid of your C5?

suprspooky

Cool 71, give me details on your eng./drivetrain, I'm looking at a project car (C3) with IRS, is it feasible to go below 12's with a muncie or richmond and the IRS?

7T1vette

Your car got off the line well, so I don't think that your engine is "tired". Suspect the tri-power may not be opening fully and that would hurt the top end speed. I would suggest that you look for problems with tri-power setup before you do any rebuilding.

suprspooky

I've used a borescope to video the opening action and data logged for rpm/vacuum for another member that was having issues, they work. I cut a 14.06@98ish on test day (rainout so only one run) and my final race the next day was a 14.16 (put some quicker springs in the TI dist for that run, play day). I think my driving is part of it, first time on a strip. I'll be dynoing the motor before rebuild (compression/leakdown this weekend), so I have a baseline. main reason for rebuild is allow for running 91 oct.