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Originally Posted by 9Eleven
I was there, his car is bone stock. The track and conditions were absolutely perfect. I ran an 11.06 @ 129.77 w/1.71 60 ft, in my Gt2, (ECU flash and exhaust) on street tires (MPS2's). I am putting out around 530 to 540 hp to the crank and weigh about 100 lbs more than Jamie's Z (per factory specs) who stock is at 505 to hp the crank. So we are very close in HP and weight. He ran a 10.98 @ 128.90 on stock runflats. The temp that day was 45 degrees with a dew point of 15. Never the less, Jamie is a hell of a driver. He ran a 11.2 on the same track in 95 degree heat and humid conditions.
The guy is a true car enthusiast that actually loves all cars and driving them fast. He did run his Gt2 (ECU flash and exhaust) on drag radials and clocked a 10.83 last month on a 60 degree day. Unfortunately, we didn't get the entire 6Z06 run, or the 10.98 run on video because the videotape was made by a 6speedonline forum member who brought a video camera to video his 11 second Benz and decided to video a couple of runs by Jamie and I. This is the video of his 10.83 @ 130.05 w/ 1.70 60 ft, on drag radials that he clocked later that same day.
We are both anticipating the release of the new Viper ACR, great conditions at MIR should make for an interesting day. Jamie's got the slips for both those record runs and I've got the slip for my 11.06 run and a video of my Gt2 running an 11.18 and 11.20 before I clocked the 11.06, but I don't think you guys would be interested in those.
This is the typical, "If I can't do it, it can't be done" knee jerk response. Give good driving credit when credit is due, regardless of the car. If you ever met Jamie you would never question his veracity or his driving skills. Heffner will quickly vouch for this guy and so will I.
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Originally Posted by Heffner Performance
Jamie has been a very good friend of mine for the last nine years. He has had just about every kind of car imaginable and has drag raced every single one. I have built him Mustangs, Vipers, Corvettes, Ford GT's, Shelby Cobra's, Hemi MOPARs and probably a few thing that I have forgotten. My point is that he is NOT a Corvette guy who believes the Z06 is the holy grail of automobiles, well, at least not until last week. You haters can whine all you want about negative altitude density. The simple facts are that the car was absolutely 100% bone stock and he did run the number. He also ran a 10.8x in his chipped Porsche GT2. Just because the weather conditions were good doesn't make it less of an accomplishment. Hate on.
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Listen to these guys, Jamie has enough credibility in the car community both as a general car enthusiast and a driver to remove any speculation. I can see people questioning the runs if it was some random individual who posted an announcement of his incredible runs, but there's proof to back it up. He had the timeslips, he had people there watching, he had a signature from the track manager approving his timeslip, and he has friends like Jason to back up his accomplishment. Not only that but it's not like this is the first Z06 to run these kind of numbers, it's just the lowest thus far. Obviously Ranger has run similar numbers with his Z06 with a ton of documentation that up as well.
Additionally, I don't like crunching numbers on the internet, but use some logic and put some thought in to the circumstances. Anyone who knows anything about Z06's is that they do not dyno at the stock rating. 505hp is laughable considering most dyno 445-460rwhp. So let's assume Jamie's is one of the stronger cars out of the factory any dynoes at 460rwhp. Now add to this the factor of Density Altitude being -1200ft, which I'm not sure exactly how much power this adds to an N/A motor, but let's assume an extra 10hp for a total of 470RWHP. Add to that, great gearing in stock form plus an extremely skilled driver and I think you'll find that 10.9 is not impossible. Even the garbage little online 1/4 calculators give roughly that result with the numbers I suggested. Of course this is just internet racing, but it seems many of you 'speculators' are relying on number crunching internet theory anyways.
Cheers,