BLACK346 said:
Are you serious or taking the piss? A stock VX LS1
would absolutely smash the 5 litre. I think you will
find high 7's to low 8's is about the norm for a stock
5 litre. My old VN with custom exhaust would have
had no chance against my LS1, sure it felt fast at the
time, but I have no doubt stepping back into it now
would show just how slow it really was.
He's raced a VX ls1 with it starting when the VS passed the VX, the VX was slowly closing the whole way and creeped past at just below the VS's top speed (I'll get deleted if I mention how fast, but for this example you might say this VS's top speed is around 100km/h : )), the VS was flat to the floor and there was no more power to be had, that said the VX could only get past at a kind of jogging speed difference, there wasn't much in it, The VS is a definate 6. something second 0-100 car, stock executive manual with a bit of a retune. But I've also seen a stock looking VX Auto LS1 pull up at the local 1/8th mile drags for a grudge match and run an exceptional 8.6 the same day that a VS 5 liter manual could only manage 9.2 so that's a big difference, then again a brand new HSV VZ ute ran a 10, due to too much wheelspin on the stock tires. If I wanted to make a new manifold and put extractors and a good exhaust on my VN V6 I'd come very close to shaving the half a second I need to run 0-100 in the 6's, certainly I'd be there with a weekend worth of porting in the heads, But I want 5's so I'll continue my turbo quest : )
