Any cool stories of Your 5th Gen SS or Zl1

[Spec]

Originally Posted by SSE 4 2SS

Edited:

And 90 mph is almost the end of first gear.... It's actually ~~89% of first gear.... Shift point is 99.... at 9K rpm....

Heh, right... sorry, thanks...

[mikeinmobile]

A guy comes in our business and asks if I own the black Camaro and wants to know what product I use to keep the car spotless all the time and tells me he owns a black Vette and how hard it is to keep clean. He was disappointed to learn that I wipe her down daily. He thought I was using some new wonder wax to keep her so clean. I wish there was such a product....although I'd probably still detail some every day like I do know.

[Aqua Blue RS/SS]

Originally Posted by mikeinmobile

A guy comes in our business and asks if I own the black Camaro and wants to know what product I use to keep the car spotless all the time and tells me he owns a black Vette and how hard it is to keep clean. He was disappointed to learn that I wipe her down daily. He thought I was using some new wonder wax to keep her so clean. I wish there was such a product....although I'd probably still detail some every day like I do know.

Reading this made me realize how much I suck at life I wish I had that kind of time.

[mikeinmobile]

Originally Posted by Aqua Blue RS/SS

Reading this made me realize how much I suck at life I wish I had that kind of time.

Actually I don't. But I love a clean cool car and can't help myself. It's particularly hard in Mobile where it rains for an hr EVERY day in the summer. By the way I love the Aqua Blue. That and Black were a tossup for me.

[SSE 4 2SS]

Originally Posted by CamaroFred

Professional drag racing also mandates manual transmissions.
Not because an automatic won't withstand a single 1,000 (or 1320) foot run, but because driver skill is valued more than the vehicle.
Drivers are awarded the trophies.
We are all aware that a computer can react faster than any human, not only for shifting, but controlling wheelspin, steering, braking, etc.
Hell, drivers practice using a simulator in an effort to match the computer.
Where that fails during a race is when other drivers become involved, which, inevitably leads to incredible passes (or failures). Computers will always take the safest way, it takes risk to win.

Now, NASCAR is still a bit goofy. It took them eons before they would allow power steering. They still use an ice box and water bottles to cool drivers. And even today, they are probably the only professional racing organization that doesn't allow speed-limiters in pit lane. Which I, personally, feel is a safety factor.

Very well stated... NASCAR is ruling themselves out of fan bases, and it’s because of “competition balance”... Long gone are the days of run what ya brung... which kills me because it’s no longer about money when some cat working a wrecker in a one bay shop one day is on the track the day after... These are hundred million dollar teams... Drivers fly on private jets with bon bons and caviar from meet and greets to the next location and are pampered babies... Watching two of them get heated is worse than watching two drunk chicks snarling and scratching at each other... Hell, the meanest b(*&@ on the track was the Go Daddy poster child... She could whip most of them dudes asses...

Go back to days of back yard research, the days of the Wood Brothers, and the Petty era, and the Yarburoughs’, toss in some Smokey Yunick for good measure... That was an era of racing at its finest... Smokeys’ 7/8 car, the 2.5 inch in diameter fuel line... the nitrous in the roll cage... Now your tech dudes are weiners with pocket protectors and calculators...

NASCAR now is 500 miles of turning left with three spins one big wad’em up, and a dash at the end with alliances and team mates... Boring....

How about racing where a chassis (all built by the same shop and randomly passed out) are given to teams in a sealed garage. Tools are provided... parts can be purchased and brought in but there is a dollar limit... One week... pull the car out, test lap it to make sure it’s safe and then final tweaks and qualify... Seal the garage and driver gets in it on Sunday and they roll... A limited number of people are allowed to touch or be near the car during the build... This will prove drivers are capable of handling a loose or overly tight car... it’ll prove the teams actually know how to build a car... it’ll prove the mechanics can build and tune a motor... and it won’t be 500 miles of boredom...