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Originally Posted by bpmurr
It's funny you say this because it seems every tuner it taking their ZL1 to the drag strip not the road course to better performance...
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For brevity's sake, there aren't very many well-known tuner shops within a stone's throw of VIR, while drag strips are generally reasonably local to everyone.
Is the 1/4-mile a valid yardstick? Sure...but no two tracks have the same prep, the same bite, and/or the same air density and ambient temps. So who's doing the "conversions"?
More variables...
Take a gazillion dollar
Formula 1 car, or
IndyCar (see how Chev's doing?!), or
Sprint Cup car to a strip and what happens? Impressive times? No, not really...
I recall a
Winston Cup car test at a drag strip: 800+ hp, 3400 lbs., and it ran low 11's. What's that prove? Not much...
Does MRC have a drag race setting, to allow the front suspension to act as though it has light springs and 80/20 or 90/10 shocks? No. Would that hamper a ZL1 from "full weight transfer"? Yes...and if the '13 GT 500 enjoys electronic shocks, it will be even more impeded because so much more, %-wise, of its weight sits over the front wheels, and is unwillingly tranferred to puny 285 tires. "
Unhook the front anti-sway bars", they'll say. "Showroom stock" goes out the window. "
How about DRs?" Again, mods...
The production ZL1 has been in the hands of the general pubic for about 2 weeks now. Few are broken in. Fewer still have seen a road course.
What's the
CHEAPEST and
BEST mod, money can buy?
Seat time...