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But this is Sport Auto, the pinnacle of performance car magazines. It`s just not logical to have this video on the same page and level of significance with a bunch of click-bait youtubers which know very little about performance...
And stock cams, stock valve size, stockish head, and the stock "super restricrive" headifold.
If you said this was going to happen 6 months ago you`d get flamed to death.
Some nice work by Papadakis & team!
That sucks man, but thankfully you´re ok.
A few years ago I had a similar situation in the 911 turbo. Brake failure, went off track at 110mph. The car still lives, and I did ok too, but I promised myself I would never go 10/10ths in a fast street car again; there is just too many things that...
Take with a grain of salt as we don`t know how good those drivers are, except for those who are named. 1.5 secs slower than a (original) GTR R35 driven by Steve Millen is a good reference though.
Evasive testing their Supra at Buttonwillow CW13
Fastestlaps.com for reference...
https://www.autoblog.com/2019/08/01/2020-toyota-supra-lap-time-buttonwillow/
I think Chevy did an AWESOME job with the C8. It´s a bold move, and I think it will be a great car and a huge sales success.
However....
It is pretty heavy. As per car and driver: "Chevy is being coy on weight by only divulging a dry-weight figure of 3366 pounds. That implies a curb weight...
For most realistic power goals it probably won’t be necessary. People are doing >600whp on the 1.5 liter Honda engine with integrated manifold (L15B7). We´ll have to see.