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Originally Posted by lexlueger
You would need almost that much put into an SS to beat one on a drag strip and road course...I call it a wash.
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Looking at the 1/4 mile fast list, the bolt on top 3 could beat a GTR in the 1/4 and # 4 and 5 would be a drivers race. The bolt on's with internal mods (non stock displacement) would almost all beat a GTR in the 1/4 with #7 being the least likely. When you look at power adders with stock displacement, all 30 cars would beat the GTR in the 1/4, easily.
I don't have the experience with my car on the drag strip to even begin to think I could get the launch required to beat a GTR in a straight up drag race using a tree. I've got the power to get away from it, but not the ability to plant it like the GTR does. I'll have stick with rolling starts and
as I drive down the runway at the Airstrip Attack events with a stock GTR in my rearview mirror. I'm looking forward to getting back on the road courses now that my car is finished, but won't be throwing down the challenge flag any time soon.
Since most of the bugs have been worked out of the GTR, it isn't an easy task for ANY car to beat it on the road courses, and with AWD, its damn hard to get past it on the drag strip. There are several people on here who can do it on one or the other but I think it would take one of the modified ZL1's to do it on both the strip and a road course. One of the 1LE's may be able to do it with a power adder or bolt on's, but we don't have a reference for that yet.
I don't think it would take $80k to get a Camaro to beat the GTR. $30k for an SS, $3000 for pedders suspension, $10k for basic bolt-ons and a Maggie w/tune, and $3k in tires. As long as an axle didn't break on the launch, I think a Camaro would hold its own on both tracks.