Late model muscle car's

[Jeff Lee]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

The car companies can talk about close production tolerances all the want, the the power out puts are all over the place. I have dyno tested bone stock LS1 GM cars from 275 rwhp to 349. LT1 cars from 225 rwhp to 302. Have seen virgin A4 LS1 cars run everything from 14.20s to 12.80s here at Tulsa. One freak bone stock manual trans 2000 Camaro SS (except the PCM tuning) makes 349 rwhp and runs 12.30s. I have a customer in Houston that ran 11.55 with his A4 2002 TA, never had a valve cover off. But, some won't even go 13s. I don't doubt Ford and MOPAR are the same way.

Sounds reasonable. In '94 I bought a new 25th Anniversary T/A w/ LT-1 auto trans and 3.23's. Bone stock I got it to 13.96 @ 99.6. Never could break 100. There was always a few others at the track that were also stock and there's were usually .2-.3 slower. They all doubted mine was stock.

I agree on the LS1's. Ive never driven anything but a 5.3L truck but for what it was, I was impressed. A friend of mine just bought a '06 Z06. He's foolishly said I could take it for a spin. Can't wait!