arguing with a friend concering camaro's help.
 

Okay, so theres two cars in town capable of a fair race considering year model and mods. 1999 mustang GT, 5 speed with a 4.6 explorer engine with an all aluminum block, VS a camaro ss, 99. it has a stock LS1. who wins? I cant stress to him that in a drag u only use soo much distance and a LS1 has no advantage over a mustang say 0-120, GM's big difference is speeds that u dont reach in a normal drag. Help me explain this.

the LS1 will take the mustang...bottom line.

i hate LS1's thats why i boosted my car so i can beat majority of them rolling around on the street.

LSX>4.6soch all day...even N/A dohc 4.6...and many S/C dohc 4.6 as well.

too bad the LSX lives in so many ugly ass vehicles.

well yeah i know that, LS engine is my fav made, im not arguing on the horsepower, its just the camaro never seemed to have a body like the mustang. cept back in the IROC days, those ate fox's. but like now, the camaro with a ls3 at 400hp crank, is less than a second ahead of a mustang with 300. Thats what im getting at.

Mustang will get whooped on, no matter what race they run.

You mentioned a 99 GT and a 99 SS, where does the new camaro and mustang come in? The 99 SS will beat a 99 GT stock for stock all day long. The camaro's weigh a lot, thats why it's not all that fast, but a LS motor can be modded very little to make big power. Back in the day the IROC's looked like ass and weren't all that fast. IMO, the Trans Am WS6's look way better than the older camaro's.

The explorer block is going to drop 100lbs-ish off the front end so it'll handle a lot better than it used to and it'll even accelerate faster but it's still not sounding like it's a real match for the SS. They're 1sec faster out of the box through the 1/4mi.

It'll be a really good race but I still see the mullet-mobile winning regularly.

well i guess i lost the argument, ill post back after i get the guys to race in a safe place!

We already know the outcome.

To me this is kind of an unfair race to begin with. What I mean is a SS against a GT. Thats kind of like me with my mostly stock GT trying to race a V6 mustang, or a '03 Cobra wanting to race me. They are two totally different cars. Now if you took a '99 Cobra and raced a '99 SS then it would be a fairER COMPARISON so to speak, and I still think that even with THAT race, the SS would still win it.