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725 bhp
730 lb-ft torque!

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DEI37

That thing is just pure sex. I can't imagine what that thing has got to be like to drive. I can only dream.

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powerclown

Twin Turbo...that's just crazy.

You gotta love the mindset of someone who says: "Dammit, 500HP just isn't enough. I need MORE!"

(off to play the lottery)

RaDiAn

Man that is awsome...I wouldlov to take a stab at the gas on that one!!!!!

BadNick

Wow, gorgeous and powerful! Pricey too, I think that's $89k plus a donor Corvette; but good engineering and hardware ain't cheap and you usually get what you pay for. In any case, I'd love to have one. A minor quibble that I can fix, not those tires, they couldn't possibly have adequate traction. Those don't even hold my measly 500+hp; I humbly suggest the Pirelli Corsa competition tire, it's R compound ...I'm running these as street tires now and they are my favorite of any I've ever had for street use.

This Vette is built on the outgoing C5 chassis. Just imagine what he could do with the new C6 ZO6 chassis!

Scorps

So who wants to pick the bill up on one of them for me...LOL

If I had the cash I would be ordering one of them right now



Oh ya and love that hood

Salomon

Wow, amazing car. A race car for the street.

mastertakana

waste of good dollars. to drop all that dough on what is still a chevy? even if i won the lottery, id rather have a 360.

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shakran

Why? They're about the same as far as reliability

Really to drop that much on ANY sports car is insane. For WAY less than a ferarri or that Vette costs I can go buy a used sports car, and modify it to be much faster. Then I can dump the money I save into oil company stocks, 'cause I'll need to recoup some gas expenses if I actually drive what I built

Martian

Eh? The engine is based off of a C5R engine, but that's a C6 chassis. Compare :

C6 :


Lingenfelter :


I suspect maybe you're confusing chassis and drivetrain? If so, the drivetrain used was again C5R, which came out of one of these :


It's a 427 ci that is very, very loosely based on an LS-1 (for the imperically impaired, 427 ci is about 7L) and makes a stock 600 hp and 495 lb/ft of torque. While the LS7 could potentially be propelled to greater heights, it'll take the Corvette racing teams years to do so. Lingenfelter is using the best engine available to him.

Also, I want one of those. Who needs some exotic Italian when you can have one of these in your driveway?

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mastertakana

Yeah, when a babe gives you her phone number when you're cruising around in your vette, she's thinking: "oooh, i bet he has a camry too"

come on, we don't buy sports cars for reliability.

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shakran

I wasn't suggesting a Camry. I can take a supra and make it a LOT faster than a Ferarri for a LOT less money and still have it be much more reliable.

mastertakana

I don't think a Supra with 75 different major mods is still reliable, unless you have the best mechanics. Even then, im not sure.

So, if you won the lottery or had an extra 70-80grand(neither of which, i do), you would go get a 10 year old supra and spend all kinds of money to have some loser dude bolt on random shit, spend 8 months adjusting the thing, only to have something people won't give you half what you invested for it?

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vautrain

Can you imagine how easy you would have to be on it, when driving through something like a parking lot or a such? Like, if your foot twitched a little bit, you'd probably fishtail that thing!

Dang, I want one.

DEI37

See...that's what I'm talking about. They're just now getting to the point of making adequate power. Could definitely use another 1000 or so!

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shakran

Who said anything about mechanics. I do all my own work.
No. I'm saying I'd get a 10 year old supra before I'd get a corvette or ferrari. Where'd you get the 80 grand figure? That's just for the Lingenfelter work. Add in the cost of the original 'Vette too. Lingenfelters aren't known for reliability either. Seems like every One Lap the Lingenfelters develop problems (as do most of the other insanely modded cars. Just the nature of the beast).
I'd rather spend 20 grand making something just as fast as the $140,000 'Vette that's just as, if not more, reliable.

No, you can have a well-modified car without running to Lingenfelter. It wouldn't be random, and the loser dude would be me.

I have NEVER spent 8 months adjusting a mod. Sure I had to tweak my SC install but hell, that's half the fun of modifying cars. It's no fun to take it to someone and tell them to do it all for you.

Dude, if you're looking to make money on your performance car, you need a new hobby. That Lingenfelter 'Vette is gonna lose value like crazy the minute you take delivery. Not only will it have the usual depreciation, it'll also have the "this car's fast as hell and therefore the guy selling it probably beat the hell out of it" depreciation.

I'm not sure why you're kicking up such a fuss about this. You can get the same performance for much less money than the Lingenfelter OR a ferarri. That's pretty well known.

vautrain

That's quite right. The primary reason to buy a Ferrari is to own a Ferrari. The primary reason to buy a Lingenfelter is to have a Corvette, albeit, a brutally fast Corvette.

The primary reason to sink $10,000 and 50 hours into a Supra is to make it fast as hell.

mastertakana

Much respect to you for that.

Free yourself from my useless blabber, I'm just trying to discuss my favorite subject.

Yes, you can, I agree with you.But if money was no object, and you could only have one car, what would it be?

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Tech

people, people, people... if The Fast and the Furious has taught us anything it's that if you have a sweet supra you are a stud and if you have a Ferrari you are a douche bag! case closed

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shakran

That's an easy one!





Lotec Sirius. 1300 bhp twin turbo V12 in a 2800 pound car. The 959 lb/ft of torque ain't bad either. And yeah, I could make the supra just as fast but it wouldn't look like THIS car

BTW, reading over my other posts in this thread I realized that you could get the impression that I don't like the 'vette. Not true. Too expensive for what it is, but it's one hell of a car.

Scorps

omg that much hp with hardly any wieght= take off time!, and with no wings thats a bad idea!

mastertakana

toooooooo funnnnny.

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MSD

And it goes fast if you put nawwwwwws on it (I have actually slapped people for pronouncing it like that.)

edit: Type R stickers take .10 off your 1/4 mile time

castex

I tried some of the old Lingenfelter on my wife last night. She's not a fan as yet; I find one has to phase such activity in gradually.

btw, thanks v.much for the desktop background, Martian

Scorps

This Vette may have a lot of Horse Power, but what about the new one the Lingenfelter 427 CID C6 Corvette Twin Turbo they got pushing 1,038bhp(and thats at the rear wheels)

Just watch the video...the car does a burnout on the Dyno
http://www.lingenfelter.com/LingenfelterMovies.htm

krwlz

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet. God I love corvettes.

IanSturgill

Pretty sweet. I wonder if it's a chore to drive though, seems like you would be working to keep it under control. All said, many don't realize how much power even 300 is. in a car with the right gearing, an almost stock engine is pretty much capable of anything your comfortable with. These cars are built for people with fuck everybody money, like jay leno for instance, who have private tracks and strips on their property.

catback

Exactly! who said I wanted to drive in a straight line anyway.

Driving in a straight line = boring
Driving on the edge of being out of control = FUN