I noticed that the ZL-1 had front tires as big as the Boss 302 rear tires and the ZL-1 rear tires were 20mm wider (over 3/4 inch wider per tire, meaning over 1 1/2" more tire on the ground) than the Boss 302 rear tires. .....................Hmmm, wonder if that did not have something to do with the track performance as well.
Norm- Thanks for the friendly reply. Like I said before, I like both of the cars and would buy either one.In addition to what Mitch mentioned above, the Boss was kept off the FIA curbs after hitting them the first time. This effectively tightens the corner up a little (which costs you midcorner speed plus speed potential all the way down the next straight).
A fair comparison for comparing the cars as they are street driven would have had both cars stay off the curbs.
If it's hair-on-fire qualifying laps that you're interested in comparing, then you need to do whatever shock tweaking that it takes and tolerate however much skittering on rough road conditions (short of losing control) that happens.
Fitz - the Camaro bashing that I've seen has been tied to things like weight, bulk, outward visibility, and handling that's less nimble than the Mustang's. I'm not a fanboi for or against any car, but the first three of those items are matters of fact. As for the fourth -at least in terms of cornering/handling at roughly street driving speeds, the SCCA's F-Stock autocross class (basically the place for stockish V8 RWD ponycars) is pretty much an S197 playground these days. Sam Strano - with a long history driving Camaros including National Championships - jumped over to the Shelby GT (not the GT500) and ran off with (I think it's four) consecutive National Championships.
Norm
Idk about all that the camaro won fair and square however when you have cars with comparable handling and one had over 100hp advantage I expected that but when the 2013 Shelby comes out that's the comparison they need to make the zl1 is just too heavy IMO
I like how you say the Camaro won fair and square, and then point out how it was not a fair comparison.
The 100 hp advantage is absolutely meaningless in the middle of a corner (where the Camaro was noted as being able to carry just a little more speed, for the reasons that it seems you'd rather not talk about). Neither car could be anywhere near WOT there and probably weren't even putting 75 down to the pavement.I mean it won against the boss fair and square ppl are talking about tires and shocks ect ect and I'm simply saying it doesn't matter cause it had a 100 hp advantage we all know it's silly to expect the boss to compete with 580 hp pony car but it's not like the camaro had to cheat to win Is my point
The 100 hp advantage is absolutely meaningless in the middle of a corner (where the Camaro was noted as being able to carry just a little more speed, for the reasons that it seems you'd rather not talk about). Neither car could be anywhere near WOT there and probably weren't even putting 75 down to the pavement.
IIRC, the midcorner speed difference was something like 4 mph. Even if the two cars had dead-even acceleration down the next straightaway, the car with the higher cornering speed could gain about a quarter of a second going down the straight just because it was going faster at the start of it. Four of those in a lap is already a second out of that two-and-something.
If that's too many numbers too early in the day, suppose that you were in a little side-by-side sprint from a 40 mph roll, except that the other guy got to start his run from 44 mph? Let's make them identical cars to take any power or whatever other differences out of it. Would you consider that a fair way to compare those two cars? Would you put money on yourself, starting at 40?
Bottom line - I'm not saying that the 100 hp advantage didn't count for some of the lap time difference, because obviously it did. What I am saying is that the 100 hp did not account for all of it.
Norm
If you're going to extract any meaningful conclusions, it would be fair to say that either the 444 HP Boss Boss punches above its weight or the 580 HP ZL1 a bit under its. Maybe a little of each???