Viper vs Vette - drag strip tested

[WeaponX81]

With the recent Youtube Video of us using a Vette as target practice at our NTVCA Guns n Dozers event, there have been a lot of chevy fan boys out there claiming that this is the only way we can beat a vette. So here's an awesome article for you to give to those guys when they say Vette is faster and better. Proof is in the pudding and the Viper wipes the floor with the vettes:

http://nineballgarage.com/2015/01/drag-strip-tested-c7-z06-vs-viper-vs-hellcat-vs-zr1/

 

[emericr]

Great stuff and kudos to Nineball to have it organized. Too bad no auto Z.
Seems like the Viper has the slight edge with the higher trap speed.

 

[FLL-B/W-GTS]

Bone Stock C7 Z Auto will run 10.70s @129 all day long.....That is about 6/ 7 car lengths a head of a Gen 5 in a quarter mile... Except the one person(Sir Nineball) in the world that can shift as quick as a DCT,but destroying the car doing it..

There is your answer...

 

[ViperJeff]

Thank You

I can see where Vette owners rely on slow shifting Vipers Drivers for that handicap for the win and where an accomplished driver makes it just....... unfair

 

[viper2]

It appears to me that GM has applied the economy of high production numbers to spread the cost of technology across Vettes that has allowed them to build the C7 Z06 that gets the edge on the stock production Viper. The stock production Viper is still heads above the run of the mill Vette in performance, looks and being exclusive. What do they say (30000 Vipers since 1992 and 27000 Vettes last year). Count the Vettes you meet every day on the road and count the Vipers you meet. I will take the Viper any day and know that I am not a driver that could utilize all it will do if confronted by any Vette that might pull up. Being exclusive to me is better than mass produced technology.

 

[Bobpantax]

There are many people who can drive a stick and power shift. They just do not post. At any givern time, only about ten percent of club membership pays any attention to web sites and that statistic is not exclusive to Viper clubs. The C7 Z auto will not run that fast all day long. It will heat soak much faster than a Challenger Hellcat since it has a low volume high revolution supercharger which produces alot of heat and a less efficient intercooler system than the Hellcat engine has. With that said, there is no doubt that given someone with limited driving skills, the C7Z Vette auto is far, far easier to launch and drive in the quarter mile than the six speed manual Viper. But the Viper was never designed to be a drag racer and its gearing, particularly the first gear, clearly shows that.

I believe that Dodge created the Hellcats for the drag racers ( although it has a pretty good suspension for the road course for what it is) and the Viper for the road racers and sports car cruising crowd. The performance of the Vipers on road courses has been superb. Perhaps some day there will be an auto Viper because the market is changing due to people wanting immediate gratification in the form of the car's tech doing the driving for them and allowing them to pretend they can drive. What's scary about it is that that same person, if the tech fails, is clueless about what to do in the event of a failure.

Bone Stock C7 Z Auto will run 10.70s @129 all day long.....That is about 6/ 7 car lengths a head of a Gen 5 in a quarter mile... Except the one person(Sir Nineball) in the world that can shift as quick as a DCT,but destroying the car doing it..

There is your answer...

 

[Dave1968]

Once we supercharge the Gen V and "even" the playing field and compare supercharged, but otherwise stock cars, than there will be no questions about who is king or whether an automatic is faster than the stick. This is one of the main reasons I bought a Viper because it still has incredible potential over everything else that is already somewhat maxxed out. So let the vettes and the Hellcats have a little glory for now, but come 2016 -- look out!

 

[Free2go]

Bone Stock C7 Z Auto will run 10.70s @129 all day long.....That is about 6/ 7 car lengths a head of a Gen 5 in a quarter mile... Except the one person(Sir Nineball) in the world that can shift as quick as a DCT,but destroying the car doing it..

There is your answer...

Every time you post, an image of a beef curtain flapping in the wind comes to mind. Maybe something similar to a vaginal *****, only larger.

 

[Dave1968]

Why is that?

 

[emericr]

B/W: I have not seen any proof of a stock Z06 (ie stock tires) doing under 10.X yet so please enlighten us.
Thanks for NB for taking the cars out there the same day.
Everyone has their own preference, we all know that and could talk about it till the cows come home.
This was all about performance and it appears that they are pretty much identical when it comes 1/4 mile. I think the difference would have widened a bit in the favor of the Viper if 1/2 or full mile had been conducted.

 

[Nine Ball]

Bone Stock C7 Z Auto will run 10.70s @129 all day long.....That is about 6/ 7 car lengths a head of a Gen 5 in a quarter mile... Except the one person(Sir Nineball) in the world that can shift as quick as a DCT,but destroying the car doing it..

There is your answer...

LOL @ "destroying the car". Powershifting (shifting without lifting throttle) isn't any harder than simply shifting fast. I'm not on the rev limiter, and my clutch in/out is faster than a slow shifting person that rides the clutch too long between shifts. In fact, several GM cars even have a no-lift-shift feature, which just takes care of the soft rev limiter interruption during a shift - the clutches still see the same hit either way. The only thing that would "destroy" a transmission is missed shifts. Grinding the synchros due to someone's clutch foot not keeping up with their hand on the shifter. But, this doesn't happen if you drive properly.

Same track, same day, the automatic Z06 is not 6-7 cars ahead of a Gen 5 Viper, or a manual Z06. That would be equal to 6-7 tenths of a second. They are more like 2-3 tenths ahead, simply based on how easy they 60'. Keep in mind that all the guys in my article above that were driving their Z06's that day - they also thought they would beat the Viper and get revenge for the infamous roll-racing video that happened a couple weeks before. The guy driving the red Z06 in that article even claimed he should beat me easily on the track, he even posted that on Corvetteforum. He never got out of the mid-12s.