Hi everyone. First I would like to say how much I enjoy this forum. I purchased a 96 GTS about a month ago and I love it. It is 100% stock. O.K. so on to my story.
SHORT VERSION: I outran a 2000 Renntech CLK60
LONG VERSION: Saturday I got a call from a buddy who I hadn't spoken to since I picked up the viper. We met up and I let him drive the car. He is a local plastic surgeon and he just happened to drive his mercedes that day. The car has a 6.0 liter v8. It's surprizingly low tech(no ohc or forced induction)but still produces 430hp according to Renntech. I'm not sure about the torque. Renntech claims a 12.5 second 1/4 mile, 4.4 second 0-60, and 178mph top speed. So after he's done driving the viper he said he would really like to run the cars one day. I said how about now? So off to the local parkway, uh I mean speedway, we went. We started at about 50mph. We agreed on the rolling start because of the unfair traction advantage my car has over the pirelli 285-30-18's doc is running. So there I am in second gear at about 4000 rpm. He lines up in the lane on the left of me. I count off the one, two, three on my left hand. We both nail the throttle. I notice that I have slowly but steadily pulled on him to the point where I could no longer see the front of the mercedes out of the corner of my eye by the 2-3 shift. Now I'm in third as I shoot past 100mph. I wound out third and gave it a rest. Only then could I take the time to look at the results. If I had to guess I would say I was about four car lenghts ahead at the end of third(120-130mph?). We ran them again with very similar results. Afterwards he said it was a good run and that was pretty much what the mercedes had. Now in his defense (as if he needs it, my god it's a mercedes that can hang with a viper) my car had no spare or jack and I was running on fumes whereas he had just topped his off. I think it's pretty impressive that a mercedes can have that much performance. Renntech has done a great job with that car. Oh by the way, I ran my car at the local 1/8th mile track. I had a best of 7.94 @ 92.7mph. I just wondered how that compares to other stock vipers.
Gary J
SHORT VERSION: I outran a 2000 Renntech CLK60
LONG VERSION: Saturday I got a call from a buddy who I hadn't spoken to since I picked up the viper. We met up and I let him drive the car. He is a local plastic surgeon and he just happened to drive his mercedes that day. The car has a 6.0 liter v8. It's surprizingly low tech(no ohc or forced induction)but still produces 430hp according to Renntech. I'm not sure about the torque. Renntech claims a 12.5 second 1/4 mile, 4.4 second 0-60, and 178mph top speed. So after he's done driving the viper he said he would really like to run the cars one day. I said how about now? So off to the local parkway, uh I mean speedway, we went. We started at about 50mph. We agreed on the rolling start because of the unfair traction advantage my car has over the pirelli 285-30-18's doc is running. So there I am in second gear at about 4000 rpm. He lines up in the lane on the left of me. I count off the one, two, three on my left hand. We both nail the throttle. I notice that I have slowly but steadily pulled on him to the point where I could no longer see the front of the mercedes out of the corner of my eye by the 2-3 shift. Now I'm in third as I shoot past 100mph. I wound out third and gave it a rest. Only then could I take the time to look at the results. If I had to guess I would say I was about four car lenghts ahead at the end of third(120-130mph?). We ran them again with very similar results. Afterwards he said it was a good run and that was pretty much what the mercedes had. Now in his defense (as if he needs it, my god it's a mercedes that can hang with a viper) my car had no spare or jack and I was running on fumes whereas he had just topped his off. I think it's pretty impressive that a mercedes can have that much performance. Renntech has done a great job with that car. Oh by the way, I ran my car at the local 1/8th mile track. I had a best of 7.94 @ 92.7mph. I just wondered how that compares to other stock vipers.
Gary J
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