VIDEO: Drag racing Chevy C6 Corvette owner shoulda bought a ZR1
Corvette C6 w/Nitrous Oxide - Click image to watch the video
Or at least a Z06. Now, we're all for drag racing – it's one of the purest forms of sport around – much like World's Strongest Man minus all the steroids. Or is that plus nine billion times the steroids? Either way, little is more adrenaline pumping than watching a nitrous-venting 1976 Chevrolet Camaro run the quarter in 8.5 seconds. Especially when you stop and think about how totally terrible Camaros were when Jimmy Carter took office. *Shudder.*
Anyhow, the reason you can get dirty old Camaros to run so quick are the mods. In fact, a constant, never-ending stream of modifications always makes that next hundredth of a second seem just within reach. Drag racing is the sport of the tinkerer – just ask Don Garlits. You can always shed weight, but then you reach a point where structural integrity becomes an issue.
More power is typically (if not always) the answer. To get there, you got your lumpy cams, bundle o' snakes headers, intake pipes the size of telephone poles, hot lifters, blowers, turbos and, of course, nitrous oxide (N2O). We say "of course" N2O because most drag races are over before you can count to ten. Besides, motors are cheap but Friday night glory at New Jersey's Island Dragway lasts forever, right? In this case, however, the ol' nitrous bottle might be more at home hooked up to another car – might we suggest a '76 Camaro? Find out why after the jump.
[Source: YouTube via Tampa Bay Examiner]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
click_playaz 12:33PM (11/11/2009)
Haha, I heard people screaming. WTH with them?
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Mark 12:52PM (11/11/2009)
Sad that people laughed and yelled at someone's misfortune.
jj 3:56PM (11/11/2009)
Truly sad - what has become of the etiquette and gentlemanly sportsmanship once practiced in the stands at America's grassroots drag races?
rombick 12:39PM (11/11/2009)
as usual camera man is awesome*
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Farris 12:37PM (11/11/2009)
"Yo that car is done! It's done!"
Yes, we know. Shut up.
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Wunderbird 12:43PM (11/11/2009)
You mean thats not covered under warranty?
StinkyPete 1:00PM (11/11/2009)
You don't know.... maybe they brought their blind, partially deaf, grammatically challenged friend to the drags?
Carlos 12:39PM (11/11/2009)
I'm failing to see why he should have bought a ZR1? Is it so he can watch the plexiglass window melt because of a nitrous back fire gone bad?
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Patliean1 12:41PM (11/11/2009)
Because if he wanted more power, it would have been safer to buy a ZR1.
Keith Cornett 12:44PM (11/11/2009)
If he would have bought the ZR1, he could be running in the 10s without the spray!
http://www.corvetteblogger.com/index.cfm/2009/10/26/VIDEO-Bone-Stock-Corvette-ZR1-Runs-10851--12989-MPH
Tourian 1:34PM (11/11/2009)
But don't you love it when "experts" say you shoulda bought a "X" when X is usually ten,twenty, or in this case around 50K more? Like its no big deal, just spend more money and get X car? Like standard Vettes are crap now and are a waste of time modding?
Franz 12:44PM (11/11/2009)
Damn... the "NOSS" blew the welds on the intake...
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Farris 1:03PM (11/11/2009)
This guy was probably granny shifting and not double clutching like he should.
Jonny Lieberman 1:15PM (11/11/2009)
Dominick Toretto!
Benfolio 1:22PM (11/11/2009)
More than you can afford pal, ZR1.
Tourian 1:29PM (11/11/2009)
Now, me and the mad scientist got to rip apart the block and replace the piston rings your fried.
Patliean1 1:57PM (11/11/2009)
Ask any racer, any real racer, it don't matter if you win by an inch or a mile...winning's winning!
The Hit 6:48PM (11/11/2009)
He only lives his life a 1/33 mile at a time....
Harrison 10:24PM (11/11/2009)
He's lucky he didn't blow out his floorboards.
2001 altima aka Jessica 1:38AM (11/12/2009)
Brian O'Connor: Hey, Jimmy! We got any half-empty bottles of nitrous laying around?
Jimmy: Sure, but I already loaded you with spray.
Brian O'Connor: Yea i might wanna ruin someone's vette today.