| RE:Opinions on maximum practical HP for the C4 on the street |
Subject: RE:Opinions on maximum practical HP for the C4 on the street by Mr_Mojo on 2008/1/28 12:28:07 My stock LT1's with 300 is plenty for me. The '93 having the higher stall torque converter and 3.45 gears makes a difference. The 95 six speed does pretty well up to 100 mph then the other higher HP cars start to takeover. Example: On last years crab trip, we got off the Cape May Ferry and onto the Garden State Parkway which at the southern end of Jersey has stoplights. I was next to a ZR1 and a '03 Z06. Light turned green and we were off. Blew the ZR1 away and kept up with the Z06 up to about 80 or 90 and then out of nowhere another Z06 blew by at about 150(he was highly modded). Now the ZR1 driver may not have been expecting a little race which is no doubt why I got the jump on him, maybe if he was paying attention I wouldn't have left him. By this time though all the other highly modded C5's went blowing by us at over 150(I only know this because I was at 130 and watched them disappear. On the street in most situations, you only need 0-80 in as quick as possible and if you can't get traction, what's the use? I'd like to have 100 more, so I'm going to go with 400 hp also. |
