How fast is a ZZ4 converted C3?
Melting Slicks
Joined: Apr 1999
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From: Toms River NJ
Re: How fast is a ZZ4 converted C3? (MNJack)
1. Faster than stock
2. Really fast when you first get it
3. After a while, not fast enough!! :lol:
2. Really fast when you first get it
3. After a while, not fast enough!! :lol:
and i second the motion of 12.9's with the hotcam, however I have a 3.55 rear gear and plan to do better with cooler air and my new clutch :)
Race Director
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From: NM
Re: How fast is a ZZ4 converted C3? (70 LS1)
Don't forget that the 69 L46 was rated in gross Hp where as the ZZ4 is rated in net Hp. Big difference. The ZZ4 would outrun and L46 any day.
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Drifting
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From: Toronto
Re: How fast is a ZZ4 converted C3? (70 LS1)
How fast is a ZZ4 converted C3?
Well, I don't have any numbers, but I can tell you this. A guy in a '79 or '80 C3 pulled up beside me at a light on a highway north of Oakville last night. We chit-chatted for a couple of seconds, and as he saw the opposing light turning yellow, he said, "So how fast is yours?" I said, "Well .... purty fast." He said, "We'll see." When the light turned green we both stomped on our respective throttles, and he was moving in slow motion. I felt like I was in an F1 car and he was in a golf cart. After I got up to that 90-100 mph area (frighteningly quickly), I released the pressure and he caught up to me at the next light. He just nodded his head and smiled, as if to say "OK, I don't mind being beaten that way, by that car."
As I pulled away, I just said "ZZ4".
Well, I don't have any numbers, but I can tell you this. A guy in a '79 or '80 C3 pulled up beside me at a light on a highway north of Oakville last night. We chit-chatted for a couple of seconds, and as he saw the opposing light turning yellow, he said, "So how fast is yours?" I said, "Well .... purty fast." He said, "We'll see." When the light turned green we both stomped on our respective throttles, and he was moving in slow motion. I felt like I was in an F1 car and he was in a golf cart. After I got up to that 90-100 mph area (frighteningly quickly), I released the pressure and he caught up to me at the next light. He just nodded his head and smiled, as if to say "OK, I don't mind being beaten that way, by that car."
As I pulled away, I just said "ZZ4".
