Good afternoon everyone,
Just back from a nice walk along the dike in Peace River. Colder out today but only -10. Met a group of school kids out exercising for gym (one girl even wearing shorts - WTF!) and two of them high 5'ed me on my way by which struck me as funny.
Yes, you are all correct in that this is a real boost in power and I have watched more than a few people in Z06's, stock and otherwise, who end up getting out of control. I am lucky in that at least with the stock car, not feeling the need to be deep into the throttle all the time. I remember and I think I mentioned here that once I was puttering along the river road in PR and had the window down and met this kid on a bike and he yelled to me something like "why don't you drive that car like a man". I remember thinking to myself that a man doesn't need to be showing off with all that power all the time. A man is confident that he has the power under his right foot but that he knows when and where to exercise it. I hope that this will still be the case with my experience with this car. It is not about doing burnoffs at every stoplight but about knowing that you could destroy a set of tires in 30 minutes if you wanted to.
As for tires we're going to finish the ones that are currently on it when I come down and then Manny has acquired a new set of Nitto's, rear ones 10 mm wider than stock. Probably not too practical to drive around on a set of DR's.......!
It is sinking in more now what they have actually done to the car and looking at the other cars that are out there (stock anyway) ZR1's, GT-R, most exotics, LZ1 etc. will not be challenge for this car.
Not that cancer was fun but let there be no doubt that I'd never have done something like this in my life otherwise..............
Let me know when the weather allows for driving, I'd like to get Manny to take it for a rip to see it in action!
Arun, will you be posting a dyno run video clip?????
Cheers,
Garry