Chevrolet: Stock 2012 ZL1 Runs 11.93 Quarter Mile (Video)

[8cd03gro]

Originally Posted by SRT8Tech

Uhhhhh, my G2 Goodyears dont hook anywhere near a slick!!!!! I mean NO WHERE NEAR IT!!!! For somebody to say they do is just nuts......

Oh I agree. I was more pointing out the lack of skepticism of a 1.6x on a stock tire from the same people that said the G2 would never be able to put power down on the gt500, but supposedly the zl1 didn't run faster on drag radials and slick-equipped cars are seeing only slightly quicker 60's. So eager to believe Chevy and trounce Ford for very similar statements.

[Mr. Wyndham]

I'm curious....as always....

Why are the terms "Ford", and "Mustang" even being uttered in here?

I leave for a few days, come back and the first ZL1 section thread I open I get to read this....joy...


<- This is me not caring about some of the comments in here. I've been driving my Z every chance I get and I love it more and MORE with every mile that gets put on the clock. It as comfortable to drive as a laz-y-boy is to watch TV in, grips like nobodies business, pulls like a freight train, and plays a symphony the likes of which I haven't heard on a good number of performance cars out there today.

Am I going to bicker and dance around several HUNDREDTHS of a second on a quarter-mile drag strip when the car is SO SO much more than that? No.

[htron50]

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

I'm curious....as always....

Why are the terms "Ford", and "Mustang" even being uttered in here?

I leave for a few days, come back and the first ZL1 section thread I open I get to read this....joy...


<- This is me not caring about some of the comments in here. I've been driving my Z every chance I get and I love it more and MORE with every mile that gets put on the clock. It as comfortable to drive as a laz-y-boy is to watch TV in, grips like nobodies business, pulls like a freight train, and plays a symphony the likes of which I haven't heard on a good number of performance cars out there today.

Am I going to bicker and dance around several HUNDREDTHS of a second on a quarter-mile drag strip when the car is SO SO much more than that? No.

Nah, I don't see you as bicker and dance about the times..... but maybe the tons of innuendo being laid off on GM teams as liars might get your riled! We'll see! Good luck trying to avoid it. Got deep boots on? we'll send ya some of em to see if you even care....LOL...YOU?

[2ndCamaro79]

Originally Posted by htron50

Nah, I don't see you as bicker and dance about the times..... but maybe the tons of innuendo being laid off on GM teams as liars might get your riled! We'll see! Good luck trying to avoid it. Got deep boots on?

[2ndCamaro79]

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

I'm curious....as always....

Why are the terms "Ford", and "Mustang" even being uttered in here?

I leave for a few days, come back and the first ZL1 section thread I open I get to read this....joy...


<- This is me not caring about some of the comments in here. I've been driving my Z every chance I get and I love it more and MORE with every mile that gets put on the clock. It as comfortable to drive as a laz-y-boy is to watch TV in, grips like nobodies business, pulls like a freight train, and plays a symphony the likes of which I haven't heard on a good number of performance cars out there today.

Am I going to bicker and dance around several HUNDREDTHS of a second on a quarter-mile drag strip when the car is SO SO much more than that? No.

You and Drake get ZL1s and you just leave us . The only way to make myself feel better is this.

[SIRLOIN]

[wawrecker]

Been in the patch for the last 6 months and I come back to people flaming a thread about a factory 11 sec car that runs 200mph? This was un-heard of 5-10-20 years ago, what the hell are the haters drinking?

[Mr. Wyndham]

Originally Posted by htron50

Nah, I don't see you as bicker and dance about the times..... but maybe the tons of innuendo being laid off on GM teams as liars might get your riled! We'll see! Good luck trying to avoid it. Got deep boots on? we'll send ya some of em to see if you even care....LOL...YOU?

hrmmm...is that so?

There's a short little adage I tell my students who try and insult or start an argument with other students over a solution to a problem in class (we do a lot of creative problem solving)....some of the kids try to make the others seem stupid or invalid in order to prove THEIR opinions right. (What does that sound like?) Anyways...it goes something like this:

If you don't have a better idea -- then keep quiet, because you're compromising the work on what is, apparently, the best idea in the classroom.

They often don't like that...but they accept it, because they quickly realize I have no time for peanut galleries/backseat drivers/etc. Be constructive to the cause, or step away until you can be....

Anyways, I can adapt that a number of ways, depending on the situation.....in this case.....I'd simply say:

If you're not an engineer...on the Camaro team...at the drag strip the day this time was achieved, yet you maintain this time is a lie/not possible, etc...I suggest a bite of humble pie, because chances are you have no idea what you're talking about. These people may be enthusiastic...passionate....proud even! (God forbid!!!).....but they're not liars.

I haven't read through the thread entirely to see any of those comments you're referring to, Htron....but if I saw one - that's probably what I'd say.

Originally Posted by 2ndCamaro79

You and Drake get ZL1s and you just leave us . The only way to make myself feel better is this.

I wish you could see how hard that made me laugh.

[Bad@ssCamaro]

Originally Posted by 2ndCamaro79

You and Drake get ZL1s and you just leave us . The only way to make myself feel better is this.

[Bad@ssCamaro]

Originally Posted by wawrecker

Been in the patch for the last 6 months and I come back to people flaming a thread about a factory 11 sec car that runs 200mph? This was un-heard of 5-10-20 years ago, what the hell are the haters drinking?

That's what happens when you let the Blue Oval guys in.

[tooslow]

GM has never said that the 1.69 60ft time was cut on the Goodyears, therefore, they cannot be liars. All they have said, and it has been verified, is that they ran an 11.93 on the factory tires. Again, not a lie.

The question all along has been, how is it that GM can cut a sub-1.7 60ft time on factory tires in a 4100+ pound, IRS equipped car?

[JusticePete]

Originally Posted by 8cd03gro

Does anyone remember when Motortrend did a ride along in the 2013 gt500 and stated it launched almost as well on heated up G2's as it did on slicks? I remember a certain someone going buck wild about how ludicrous that statement is, yet now when the zl1 runs a 1.6 60' on stock tires and another thread has a zl1 running an 11.4 on slicks with a 1.6 60'. . . crickets. Just callin' it as I see it.

The statement is as ludicrous now as it was then. There is no such thing as a street tire that can compare to SLICKS.



Drag radials ain't slicks.

[JusticePete]

Originally Posted by Dragoneye

If you're not an engineer...on the Camaro team...at the drag strip the day this time was achieved...

I am not an engineer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn

[SRT8Tech]

1.69 60ft + Goodyear G2 F1's = HELL NO!!!!

The best times in the vid were done with drag radials. I still say the ZL1 can get in the 11's with the stock tire though. Give it some time AGAIN...........