OT: 680HP & 217MPH

with nitrous, but not blown.

But you're still wrong. Blown 500+HP Mustangs and such are a dime a dozen around here. I know a guy that until a couple of years ago he drove his Vortec blown 94 Lightning daily. There's a guy in New Orleans with a 9 sec Buick and it's very streetable.

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 13:08:14 -0500, "Nomen Lapetos" puked:

GM is pretty screwed over with their new 600 hp Z06...

-- lab~rat >:-) Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

Only if it has a blower on it.... :p

On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:25:44 -0500, WindsorFox puked:

DETROIT Ñ Corvette rumors are as rampant these days as tabloid stories about Nick and Jessica. But aficionados' antennae are picking up emanations from deep inside General Motors that Chevrolet is readying an ultra Vette for 2008 that should outgun the new Z06.

According to the Web site, DigitalCorvettes.com, the so-called Corvette SS will be the ultimate Vette, although details at this stage are pretty slim. The rumor mill has a "charged" LS9 engine under the hood as a Corvette exclusive, not to be shared with Cadillac, Pontiac or any other GM brand. Although smaller in displacement than the massive 7.0-liter LS7, the blown LS9 allegedly will churn out more than 600 horsepower Ñ considerably more muscle than the 500-hp Z06.

One insider claims the new Super Vette is not the long-rumored "Blue Devil" car and, in fact, insists that no running prototypes exist yet.

Stay tunedÉ

-- lab~rat >:-) Do you want polite or do you want sincere?

Ummm... the pedal position doesn't dictate the horsepower. The RPM you are at combined with another obvious factors (too many to name), like what gear you're in, and how much boost you're making are going to determine the amount of power that is getting to the ground. The only time you'll really see loss of control or traction on the street is if you drop down to a low gear and roll on the gas, which hopefully common sense would interfere with that urge.

Modern high horsepower cars usually drive like they're stock until you stab the gas. My '03 Cobra makes around 500rwhp and you'd never know it unless you dove on the gas like a fool. It doesn't buck or stall or in any way "imply" through driving characteristics that it has "too much horsepower for the streets".