I'm A Little Bored, So...

I don't really remember the 0-60 times but my best speed was 125 mph with a 410-1 rear gear running on bridgestones at about 20 lbs pressure. With that year GTO it's almost impossible to get a decent tire under the fenders without tubbing it and I didn't want to do that. I was actually disqualified for not having a roll bar, NHRA approved harmonic balancer, and forged axles.
The axles and balancer I would have done but not the roll bar. At anything below 11.99 et you need a roll bar. Below 10.99 it's a roll cage.
They do have old timers and street shoot outs once in a while but the slips don't count for anything.

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Originally posted by balamm@15 August 2003 - 08:47
I don't really remember the 0-60 times but my best speed was 125 mph with a 410-1 rear gear running on bridgestones at about 20 lbs pressure. With that year GTO it's almost impossible to get a decent tire under the fenders without tubbing it and I didn't want to do that. I was actually disqualified for not having a roll bar, NHRA approved harmonic balancer, and forged axles.
The axles and balancer I would have done but not the roll bar. At anything below 11.99 et you need a roll bar. Below 10.99 it's a roll cage.
They do have old timers and street shoot outs once in a while but the slips don't count for anything.

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sounds pretty good :D

shame about the nhra situation, it's a pain having to have the roll bar/cage

here's a little article about the 0-100-0 i was talking about earlier

i hadn't noticed how long the cobra held the record before i read this

11.44 to 100 and back to 0? that is quick. I wouldn't have thought the cobra could stop like that with a 427 in the front end. The weight ratio on those cars was horrible.

it was the r500 that did the test in 11.44, the cobra took 12.4 secs

still extremely impressive for 1965 though

My daughter is coming to visit tommorow and she takes care of all my filing, she has a photographic memory! Makes up for my aging brain lol.
I'll get her to dig up what she can and see if we can get it scanned. I wouldn't mind doing some cropping and cleanup on the pictures anyway and then I'll post a few.

sounds good

looking forward to seeing some more pics

I've seen reports of the possibility of a production Cerbera S12, though how reliable these reports are remains to be seen, but with 0-60 in 2.9 seconds (I think 0-100 was about 6 seconds) this car would certainly smash the 0-100-0 record.

I wish I could remember where I saw these figures, I know it was in a magazine which had a list including hp/ton, and I scanned the list to find the highest.

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Originally posted by lynx@15 August 2003 - 11:10
I've seen reports of the possibility of a production Cerbera S12, though how reliable these reports are remains to be seen, but with 0-60 in 2.9 seconds (I think 0-100 was about 6 seconds) this car would certainly smash the 0-100-0 record.

I wish I could remember where I saw these figures, I know it was in a magazine which had a list including hp/ton, and I scanned the list to find the highest.

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i'm sure it'd be near the top of such a list...over 900bhp (940 at 7,200rpm, with more to come) in a car weighing 1150kg leads to more than 800bhp/tonne

kind of makes the current fastest production car (mclaren f1) with 627bhp and weighing 1137kg (550bhp/tonne) a little bit silly

it also makes the bugatti veyron (estimated 984bhp, estimates of 1400kg (702bhp/tonne) look slow

however, bhp/tonne isn't always the most telling factor, as the Dauer 962 "only" has a power to weight ratio of 675bhp/tonne (730bhp, 1080kg), however, its race-bred technology and huge rear tyres means it can hit 60 in 2.6 seconds and top out at 250mph

pretty impressive

The list was alphabetical, but it certainly had the highest power/weight ratio, note this was the Cerbera S12 not the original Speed 12. I believe they had trimmed a little off the weight too, giving a figure over 850bhp/tonne.

Hate to think what they could do if they started tuning that engine :'(

I drive a folkswagen (I dont know anything about cars) :lol: