Back to the original posters question I think.
billy_tripper said:
I just raced an '01 Vette auto that a friend of mine owns and it was very close. I got the jump, but when we hit the concrete in the intersection my engine completely shut down for a second or two, he passed me, then it kicked back in. I was going probably 10 or 15 mph. I actually caught back up with him and at 85 his nose was 7 feet in front of mine. Mine is an auto too and I was wondering if it could've been a break in traction on the concrete that shut it down? I didn't turn t/c off. I took it immediately after to a back road and did a launch with t/c on and the backend came around then took off but never shut down? I don't understand what happened? I launched at about 2000 rpm in the race and about 2500 rpm on the backroad.
As for shutting down, how? Did the revs drop or was it the box. If it did spin the rears and not kick the TCS in it may have been trying to change up but the reliased it wasn't moving that fast so tried to kick back down again.
Best bet try and get it to do it again and see if it is the TCS, if it is then no worries, its working, if not it may be a gearbox, gearbox ECU problem.
As for the Vette, well it has more power, less weight, and a better
suspension setup so it should be the quicker, they of course may have been letting it change up to early which will affect performance.
I know the GT's launch well and there are some respectable ET's out there for stock cars, but having looked around it seems to be more of the norm of a high 13's very low 14's car. Of course under the right conditions with a good driver it should be a mid 13 car, but under the same circumstances the Vette should be in the high 12's.
Like I said from a launch the GT's are good but if you bogged down and the Vette went past you, a GT should not have the power or speed to then catch it back up and once above 60mph it would be difficult to hang with it either due also to the better aerodynamics of the Vette.
Logically you claimed that your car stoped accelarating for 1-2 seconds. So to then even match the Corvette in this race you would have needed to out accelarate it by 1-2 seconds, because they where already ahead of you else the gap would have continued to grow and to gain on it you would have had to been out accelarating it by 3-4+ seconds which is a tall order.
A stock Gt should see 0-100 in about 13.5 seconds, so if you where theoritically gaining on a Vette at WOT it would put there 0-100mph in the 16+second range. They should be 11-12seconds. Or if they had a good launch and where on there way to a 0-100mph time of 12-13 seconds your car would have to have been accelarating at 9-10seconds to 100mph, which is a fair way above a stock 03 Cobra the acheive.
Hope you follow the logic.
And I hope you can have a rematch and see who does win, because aside from the logic you could still win, if they are a pretty poor driver, the motor has a lot of miles on it and/or is not making the ponies it should, if they have a gearbox of diff problem.
However on equal terms stock for stock The Corvette is the faster machine. But that also follows suit for the Fbody guys too, as they don't have any more power stock for stock than a C5 Vette but weigh more.
