John B

Stock 85 with 209k on it. IIRA opened up time trials to street cars. They have a Menard spec stud for wheel to wheel racing. We had more & longer studs. Still impressive the old winter beater ran 14 Seconds a lap faster than fastest Subaru AWD on spec studs. They were laughing at us when we got there saying "wrong wheel drive" wont work. Black Beater got the last laugh.

BrianCunningham

Saw that on FB

Great going!

troyguitar

That thing looks like a blast.

John B

I'm to broken for snowmobiles & our winters are long. Some people get all bent out of shape seeing me do this to a vette. Reality is this thing was going to be parts car. I gave it a new life & it likes it. My shop is on a lake. I Have a talon turbo AWD they suck at limit. I have had more fun in this POS winter car in last 2 years than my 427 Z06 in summer. The snow non studded tires only come out for fresh snow falls. They still look new. I would have burned $78789 worth of Hoosiers to have as much at or past limit driving fun.

parkerracing

crease-guard

OMG that looks like a friggin blast!! Love the car and the studded tires. What a fantastic way to give an old vette new life.

lefrog

Nice driving but you cannot compare times when level of grips are so different.

John B

You can compare the times it just isn't a fair fight. We just thought it was funny as nobody thought I would make a full lap. Ran all weekend without incident. Hoping to go back with Z06 ex road race car & spec tires. Issue is their rules & tire molds where designed around 80s cars 13,14,15 in fitment. The spec is in linear footage without considering width of tire or weight of car. Clean Ice & equal foot print I think I will surprise some people. Seems some Subi owners love going to track days & bragging about beating up on less skilled corvette drivers. Would be funny to turn the tables. Granted from a dig awd will win. Give me a track that flows where handling is more an issue & ...

amlarson2001

You are my idol. Me and a buddy have wanted to do this with a c4 for a few years now just haven't pulled the trigger yet. Winter is long here and it sucks not being able to drive a vette. You have figured it out. Make a snow vette.

0Randy@DRM

John,
The two fastest ice race cars in the 2000s have been the spidlebug (TR6 with a RX7 engine) and that 240 with big power.

On a open track they are rocket fast. But in traffic they kind of hold back a bit. Edge to edge at full lock seems to work well for them

Randy

Aardwolf

Great videos, thanks for posting.