[Shotimes] Beating an Early Vette with a SHO!!!

[Sean Pinegar]

I have raced a turbo probe GT and i smoked him, also have beaten the v6. And 
i have been neck and neck with an IROC-Z with a 350, you should be able to 
smoke that 305. I had a 90 MTX untill about a week ago.

-Sean-






>From: "Lewis" <lewisweb@charter.net>
>To: "Ojas" <ciphersystems@att.net>, <Shotimes@autox.team.net>
>Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Beating an Early Vette with a SHO!!!
>Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2002 20:37:17 -0500
>
>Back in 1991 when I had my 91 electric red SHO, one of my best friends had
>the first year new style 1984 Corvette.  It had the crossfire injection or
>something like that.  He had that 4+3 tranny or whatever it was.  At the
>time I raced him he had about 40,000 mile on it.  It was dead even until 
>3rd
>gear and about 110 mph, the SHO would WALK the vette.  I would pull away
>from him at 110 mph like he let off the gas.  I think at 110 he was
>switching into his next gear and it just dropped off.  Now what's
>interesting is that he also had an 88' IROC Z Auto with a 305.  That car 
>was
>dead even with my 91 SHO all the way to 140.  We raced many, many times and
>it was always the same.  Nobody around my area could believe the SHO had a
>V6, they thought I put a 302 in it.
>
>Another car I used to race was a friend with a Probe GT turbo.  That thing
>was only rated at 150hp, but it was right there with the SHO.  I think it
>was a little underrated to say the least.
>
>~William Lewis
>95 mtx red
>91+ white
>www.wclewis.com
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
>[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Ojas
>Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 7:48 PM
>To: Shotimes@autox.team.net
>Subject: [Shotimes] Beating an Early Vette with a SHO!!!
>
>
>Yes, the early Vettes had 245hp. But, they had 340lb.ft. Of torque real low
>in the rpm range.
>
>You need to really wring the hell out of an SHO to keep up...
>
>Just my 2 cents
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