Love those things.

 

Me too, bro. Couldn't pass up them up.

 

Thanks, Eric. Not sure if I'll rub as well. I think Jamie might be a bit lower than I am. The 345/30/18 BFGs are always a consideration as well...they're 1.4 inches shorter.

 

Every time I finally decide on a 996tt... Your Z06 just pops up somewhere and makes me start thinking about a Z06. I would have the EXACT same look you do with the hood and all. I love your Z and just wanted to say amazing car and can't wait to hear the final numbers!

 

Hey Scott, what is your speculated 60-130 with this beast? She is looking mean

 

Ha, ha...I'm very glad to hear that my car is making your decision a difficult one.

You can't go wrong with either car, IMO.

 

I'll post numbers when I get them, bro. I'm not going to publicly speculate.

 

Scott,

The car is sick! Black Z06 look like Darth Vader's car, but your car looks like his master, the dark Emperor's car!

 

That hood is killer. New racing rims look good too

 

Thanks, Ari. That's a really nice compliment. Wait until the windows get tinted and I slap on my gloss black race wheels. It'll look pretty sinister.

 

Scott, do you plan on getting a race gas file? Do you know of anyone in the tidewater area that sell VP109? The highest unleaded octane I found around here was sunoco 100 octane at the indian river location. Then again, I'm not sure you'll need a race file.

 

The biggest gains are made with more boost which the high octane permits to limits. Great for turbos, but how do you control boost on the go with a blower? I understand the race file will bump the timing, but again I believe the real power comes from higher boost in combination with timing advance. I would think traction will be problem as is..... Can't wait to see the results!

 

Zulu is correct wrt the race file. Since I have a blower, I can't change boost levels on the fly like you can with a turbo...I'd need to swap out the pulley.

That said; we are going to dyno the car on 93 octane and also 100 octane unleaded to see how much more power it makes simply from the ECU adapting. If it's significant, I'll run 100 octane when/if I really need any extra power.

But no, we aren't going to run a seperate race file.

 

I just ordered a set of 345/35/18 Mickey Thompson Street Radials II's for my CCWs.

I was originally going to go with the M&H's, but they run tall (28" for the M&H's vs 27.5" for the Mickey's) and have caused some rubbing issues on the fender liners of some lowered Z's. I'm hoping the shorter Mickey's will prevent this. Plus, they're $100.00 cheaper per tire.

I'm hoping to finally have numbers for you guys by this Thursday.

 

That tire looks huge bro, you can expect doing some wheelies with that thing Can you give us a snap shot of the engine compartment when all is completed?