It was freakin' hot in the shop. 108.4 degrees on the dyno. The car was just driven to go eat lunch and then slapped on the dyno, coolant temps were around 199. We logged the car to see how conservative the stock tune was, IATs were around 140 (almost like a blower car!), and the car pulled 8deg of timing @ 5800RPM, right it's supposed to make peak power. We didn't have a dyno fan so we just used a tiny little thing. I was expecting 350-360 considering the heat but this surprised me.

Our torque box is broken from the heat, so all I got was a horsepower reading and it was:

380hp. LOL.

I wish I had a graph to show, power was climbing REAL hard then BANG it pulled all that timing and toggled between 360-365hp. If I would have gotten a clean pull I think that thing would have made 390, close to 400whp on a nice 55-60 deg day.

I'm gonna hit the track, then it's time for mods

 

Sweet. Kooks, Cam, TEA LS3 heads and a 150 shot should wake it up.


Deja vu, lol

 

Isn't horsepower a relation of torque?

Sorry, don't know how your dyno works...

 

what kind of a shop doesnt have a fan and a TQ reading on there dyno? including in this heat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you got to have the fan!

 

It broke because of the heat! It had a Port-A-Cool system that we used.

 

well thats better than a "tiny little fan"...lol! not bad #'s

 

Wow, another name from years ago @ nasioc. Glad to see you over here BT, no more cobra?

 

It made 784whp on blower only and I was going to spray it, but we noticed the crank pulley wobbling. After taking it apart, I found a hairline crack on the crank. After that I decided I wanted a big motor car with a big cam and a big shot of gas. Haha, I sold the Cobra, and I'm still sad. That car and I made history!

NASIOC that's a name I haven't heard in awhile.. nice to see you again glad you saw the ways and got a Chevy!

 

Now you need to find out how much torque you can get.

 

you guys are not the only nasioc vets around here

 

 

Dude,

You come over from SVTP and Mod Fords? You and me the same if I recall. Asian dude in a white Cobra.

Just picked up an 07 Z06 myself. Man do I love the car!!!! Welcome

 

lol another ex-03 cobra guy here...Mine had all the bolt ons and a ported blower. 501rwhp/478tq. Fun cars, but I LOVE the c6

 

Yeah, that's me.

LOL everyone's moving over to the Chevy land.

Glad to see alot of old faces around here, you guys keep in touch. You know I try to keep my cars stock but they always get out of hand. Every 4 hours I have to argue with myself why I don't want to put a cam in the car right now, It only has 433 miles on it..

 

hey Big Turkey, didn't we race alot back when you had a WRX? I either had a z28 or white z06.. at the time.

 

433 miles???? This is worse than a crack habit. So far I have kept myself to only a CAI kit but every day is a strugle NOT to F**K with the car like I did my Cobra. Once you start there is no end as you are well aware. LS3 + cam + all the bolt on's = 500 RWHP. Now that is tempting!!!!

 

Kirk? Holy crap where have you been? Yeah you had both.. when I had my WRX you had the Z28 and then got the Z06. What do you have now? Nice to see you.

Nothing wrong with 400 miles it's broken in already! I bit the bullet and ordered the Corsa Sports, and I can't decide on Kooks or ARH LTs. I have had both on my Cobra and the quality of both are top notch.

But I am definitely going to cam and spray this sucker. just trying to get some track times before I do so I can keep track of my progress. Makes things more fun, ha.

 

Yep that's me. How you been man? Right now I just have Rutan VW mini van for the family. Picking up a LS3 soon.. plan just blot ons for now.

Now that you have an equal power car it won't be fair. I need a nice power advantage to run even with you.

Props on the Cobra I never heard about the kinda power you made there!

Your right though just simple cam, and spray you can easily do 10's in these vettes. Personally I want to skip the cam/head business and get a TVS or Techco air whistle.

 

I have been doing good, no kids yet so that allowed me to purchase the vette haha. I am very happy with this purchase, I love driving it but damn is the SOB low. I scrap the crap out of that front splitter, but I want to lower it I just dont think you can here in Houston streets.

I have had blower/turbo cars and had much experience with the twinscrew cars. The problem I am facing and also have been reading the ZR1's have been facing is high IATs. I was plagued with those on my Cobra and we are talking about a world of horsepower difference (~60hp) when IATs are nominal and when they are high.

I do not want to go through that trouble again, at least not yet. I had the most fun in my Cobra when it was running 10s on a ported eaton/spray combo. Two years and 35-40 bottles through that car on the stock motor and it never had a single problem. All I had to do was change plugs and oil, fire it up and go kick ***. I never lost to a single twinscrew Cobra with that combo and it took a MTI's LS2 C6 with a procharger on it making 711 to make me go twinscrew and try to spray that motor. It went kaboom, but that was after I got some bad gas in it during TX2K6. I was smoking my *** off but I didn't care, I was still out there doing freeway pulls.

That MTI car was fast and still to this day I am surprised as hell from it. I remember Jayson himself telling me how surprised he was how fast that car was for just a D1 on it. We ran many times and even me on spray I couldn't touch that car.

But I have never driven an all motor big cam car, so I'd like something different. I had cams on the Cobra but it had a blower on it so the cams were not very aggressive and it can never sound like a LSx motor.

I am so tempted to slap on a procharger on this thing and call it a day but I really love me some nitrous!

 

i moved over from NASIOC as well!