Got to get my car this quick

[Rocky]

Dont know if anyone has posted this before these guys go round racing ricers etc but met their match this night.
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[55starchief]

yup thats a classic, lingenfelt(SP) corvette for teh win !!!!!!!11111

[Rocky]

What do they run under the hood then?

[55starchief]

Quoting: Rocky

What do they run under the hood then?

I believe that lingenfelt used to make his own heads and some other bits. He died about 2 years ago if my memory is correct

[HardRockCamaro]

That's one of my favourite vids.


It's not a Lingenfelter vette, here's the homepage of the guy who owns it:

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He wasn't using the nitrous when he nailed it away from them (it had not long been fitted and he was hesitant), but he did off the line in the end race where the Eclipse left him off the line.  It started going up in tyre smoke so he came off the throttle and the n2o and then nailed it.  You can see the point where he gets traction when the nose slightly lifts.  Then it's game over for the Eclipse...

[Titsy]

That'll be a 10second car then...

[HardRockCamaro]

Quoting: 55starchief

I believe that lingenfelt used to make his own heads and some other bits. He died about 2 years ago if my memory is correct

John Lingenfelter knew as much if not more than anyone else on the planet about tuning small block Chevy's, partricularly fuel injected ones.



From Wikipedia:

Over his distinguished career, Lingenfelter won 13 career national event events in Competition Eliminator and was the first driver in the class to break the six-second quarter-mile barrier. He finished second in the Pro Stock Truck standings in 1998, which was the first year of competition for the now defunct class. At a career-best E.T. of 7.08 seconds, his Cavalier was once considered the world's quickest four-cylinder drag racing veheicle.
Also, he was the owner of Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (LPE for short) in Decatur, IN. LPE is a shop specializing in the modification of GM vehicles such as the F-Bodies (Camaro, Firebird), B Bodies (Impala SS, Caprice, Roadmaster, Fleetwood), Corvette, CTS-V, GTO, Silverado, Suburban, Tahoe, Escalade, Denali, SSR, Hummer H2, and Sierra. The shop also worked with tuning packages for the Dodge Viper and Plymouth Prowler.
In the press, his tuned vehicles were reported to have as much civility as the stock vehicles upon which they were based in everyday driving. However, these vehicles were brutally fast. Motor Trend tested a Tahoe tuned by Lingenfelter and achieved a 5.1 second 0-60 time as well as a .9 lateral acceleration figure. These numbers match the performance figures of the C4 Corvette and GMC Syclones/Typhoons of that era. This Tahoe had its 350cu.in. V8 bored to 396cu.in., making 500 hp and still retaining its 4WD drivetrain. Motor Trend also tested a Lingenfelter built Impala SS that had the same performance numbers as the last generation M5 (0-60 4.7 sec)due to its bored and stroked LT-1 (Displacement rose to 383cu.in. and HP rose to 440). Another vehicle built by Lingenfelter was also featured in Car and Driver when they built a special C4 Corvette with a 427cu.in. engine that attained a top speed of 212 mph. Currently, the most powerful vehicle they have in their stable is a 2006 twin turbo Corvette Z06 with w 1,038 rear wheel horsepower.
He was critically injured during an NHRA Summit Sports Compact drag racing event at Pomona, California on October 27, 2002. He died Thursday December 25, 2003 at Adams County Memorial Hospital in Decatur, Indiana at age 58.


He lost control of the 6 second 4 cylinder Chevy Cavalier about 3/4 of the way up the track, it did a hard right into the concrete wall which knocked him unconcious and with the throttle wide open carried on through the shutdown area and laucnhed itself over the final wall at 160mph and ended up on its roof...

[HardRockCamaro]

Lingenfelter C5 Vette with 800BHP:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58iQwlzkcY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x58iQwlzkcY


0-60 time of 1.97 seconds and runs the quarter in a little over 9.2...


And the C6 one they built is 1,038BHP...

Forget about launching the LPE C6 with any significant rpm, as it destroys the massive 335/30ZR20 PS2 rear tires. Rather, a bog-and-go technique moves the car off the line quickest until the boost hits and has the rear end stepping out like an old lady walking on ice. A quick shift to second gear (don't shift too fast or you'll blow off the tires) builds speed but quickly turns into wild fishtailing well before peak boost hits. A shift into third gear gets the LPE rocketing forward, but at just over 125 mph the car again goes sideways with smoking tires. Once in fourth gear, you'll feel like Wile E. Coyote strapped to an Acme rocket--you just hold on and hope for the best. LPE's first standing-mile run easily eclipsed 200 mph, but because second-gear wheelspin was so violent, the remaining runs employed an unorthodox first-to-third gearshift to avoid vaporizing the tires. While 0-to-100-mph times were slower, terminal velocity at one mile was up significantly to the tune of 211.7 mph--a new record.