** 10s **
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From: Short Hills, NJ
** 10s **
I've finally seen them and they're fun. 
I put my naturally aspirated, stock internals, bolt ons only Corvette C6 A6 LS2 into the high 10s on Tuesday and it was such a joy (and relief) to get there just a little over a year since first running 11s with it.
The car is still in the same configuration (Vararam CAI, headers, torque converter, FAST, Cartek tuning, tires etc.) as my previous new personal best other than some mild shift point fine tuning from my very talented tuner shop.
My best pass was a 10.97@125.13mph (best was 125.16mph) on a 1.54 sixty foot (with a best of 1.52
) but the track was a little greasy and wasn't quite hooking the same on every pass so my sixty foots were all over the place. That 99.14mph in the 1/8th made me quite happy as well. 
I'd made another six passes all in the 11.0s, two of them being 11.01s.
And I still don't even have all of the more popular bolts on either, this car still retains it's:
stock internals LS2 motor (ie: stock heads/stock cam)
stock 2.56 gears
stock water pump
stock crank pulley
stock cat back exhaust
stock sway bars/shocks/springs
Again, much thanks to forum (and Pro 10.00) sponsor Cartek Racing for giving my car the quality attention that it needed to get to this point, couldn't have done it without you guys.
And thanks to Dennis, Tommy and Mike for assisting at the track as well.
Along with making it into the finals at the Corvette Challenge Pro 11.50 index event two weeks ago, this is certainly among the highlights of my year.
Here are some slips (car# 364):
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I put my naturally aspirated, stock internals, bolt ons only Corvette C6 A6 LS2 into the high 10s on Tuesday and it was such a joy (and relief) to get there just a little over a year since first running 11s with it.
The car is still in the same configuration (Vararam CAI, headers, torque converter, FAST, Cartek tuning, tires etc.) as my previous new personal best other than some mild shift point fine tuning from my very talented tuner shop.
My best pass was a 10.97@125.13mph (best was 125.16mph) on a 1.54 sixty foot (with a best of 1.52
) but the track was a little greasy and wasn't quite hooking the same on every pass so my sixty foots were all over the place. That 99.14mph in the 1/8th made me quite happy as well. I'd made another six passes all in the 11.0s, two of them being 11.01s.
And I still don't even have all of the more popular bolts on either, this car still retains it's:
stock internals LS2 motor (ie: stock heads/stock cam)
stock 2.56 gears
stock water pump
stock crank pulley
stock cat back exhaust
stock sway bars/shocks/springs
Again, much thanks to forum (and Pro 10.00) sponsor Cartek Racing for giving my car the quality attention that it needed to get to this point, couldn't have done it without you guys.
And thanks to Dennis, Tommy and Mike for assisting at the track as well.
Along with making it into the finals at the Corvette Challenge Pro 11.50 index event two weeks ago, this is certainly among the highlights of my year.
Here are some slips (car# 364):
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From: Elmhurst, IL (West Suburb of Chicago) & Home of MEGA Horsepower
St. Jude Donor '06
Awesome, congrats, that has to put a big on your face.
Very impressive for a bolt on LS2 with converter only and stock gears to boot!
on your face.Very impressive for a bolt on LS2 with converter only and stock gears to boot!
Melting Slicks
Joined: Mar 2001
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From: Parkland Florida
Corvette Challenge Champ-01
Dragster Challenge Champ-06
Mark,
Congrats to you and Cartek on some very impressive numbers on a N/A LS2 with bolt ons with 2:56 gears. Great job guys.
Continued success.
Congrats to you and Cartek on some very impressive numbers on a N/A LS2 with bolt ons with 2:56 gears. Great job guys.
Continued success.
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Burning Brakes
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TOTALLY IMPRESSED!!! Then I read down and saw 2.56 gears then I was just blown away you have some combo,those 60 ft's WOW!...Oh by the way this is not brag..It's a fact... Congrats on bustin' the "Dime" a very well thought out and executed combo
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From: Short Hills, NJ
Thanks all.
Nah, no plans at the moment to go any further, it would likely take all of the remaining bolt ons plus a cam (or I could just slap on a blower) to have enough to run the 10.50 index. And then of course there is the roll bar/belts issue and that's just not a place I'd ever wanted to go with this car...of course everyone starts out saying that, even I was happy running low 12s at one point LOL.
Unfortunately not everyone had quite as good of a day as I did. There were a lot of Mopar/Hemis there setting some new bests, LS1 Melissa ran a new best as well as some other GTOs. Mike had some minor transmission issues and never got a true/full pass out of the car.
Even with some traction issues (his car hits hard) Dennis50nj did beat all of the posted NA heads and cam C6 (LS2 or LS3) ETs with his cam only LS2 running a 10.5@130+, but then again his car also did that even before he had the cam installed LOL. He might need a better wheel/tire combo to take full advantage of his set up.
Nah, no plans at the moment to go any further, it would likely take all of the remaining bolt ons plus a cam (or I could just slap on a blower
) to have enough to run the 10.50 index. And then of course there is the roll bar/belts issue and that's just not a place I'd ever wanted to go with this car...of course everyone starts out saying that, even I was happy running low 12s at one point LOL. Even with some traction issues (his car hits hard) Dennis50nj did beat all of the posted NA heads and cam C6 (LS2 or LS3) ETs with his cam only LS2 running a 10.5@130+, but then again his car also did that even before he had the cam installed LOL. He might need a better wheel/tire combo to take full advantage of his set up.