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The video above comes to us from the Big Kleib34 YouTube channel and it features footage from the recent Street Car Takeover event at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky. This video focuses on the stick shift class at the event, which was led by a C5 Corvette and a 4th generation Camaro that went head-to-head with some other wicked race cars including a Nissan S14 and a "Terminator" Cobra.While none of these cars challenged for the record of the quickest stick shift GM-powered drag car, they all turned in impressive efforts, with the ProCharged Corvette proving to be the cr me of the crop.The CompetitorsThere are two key vehicles in this video, a blue 4th generation Chevrolet Camaro with a monster turbo setup and a black C5 Corvette with a ProCharger setup. Before each of their first runs in the video, we get a quick walk-around of each car, revealing that they both pack a manual transmission.While those Chevys are the stars of this show, there are a few other vehicles in this video that appear multiple times, including a black Ford Mustang SVT Cobra from the 2003-2004 era and a Nissan S14. Unfortunately, we don"t have any details on those two cars, but we can see that they are both incredibly quick. The Nissan is particularly shocking, tickling the 7s with what sounds like a small engine as opposed to an LS swap.The ActionThe first racing action of the video shows the blue 4th generation Camaro tearing down the track. After a huge burnout, the beast stages, waits for green and rips out of the hole. The car jumps hard on the launch and with each shift, the Chevy muscle car dances all over the track, but the driver keeps the hammer down and runs an 8.851 at 174 miles per hour. There is also another clip of this run later in the video.Next, the ProCharged C5 Corvette hit the track and while it had a great launch and a clean-looking run, numbers that don"t make sense flash across the board, so we don"t know what it runs.The first good race of the video takes place between the blue Camaro and the Nissan S14. The Chevy redlights, giving the win to the Nissan, but then the driver lets off as the other car launches. As a result, the time for the blue Chevy was much slower, but the Nissan ran an impressive 8.452 at 173. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ <br style="clear: both" />
Date written: September 24, 2018
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 13450
The video above comes to us from the Big Kleib34 YouTube channel and it features footage from the recent Street Car Takeover event at Beech Bend Raceway in Kentucky. This video focuses on the stick shift class at the event, which was led by a C5 Corvette and a 4th generation Camaro that went head-to-head with some other wicked race cars including a Nissan S14 and a "Terminator" Cobra.While none of these cars challenged for the record of the quickest stick shift GM-powered drag car, they all turned in impressive efforts, with the ProCharged Corvette proving to be the cr me of the crop.The CompetitorsThere are two key vehicles in this video, a blue 4th generation Chevrolet Camaro with a monster turbo setup and a black C5 Corvette with a ProCharger setup. Before each of their first runs in the video, we get a quick walk-around of each car, revealing that they both pack a manual transmission.While those Chevys are the stars of this show, there are a few other vehicles in this video that appear multiple times, including a black Ford Mustang SVT Cobra from the 2003-2004 era and a Nissan S14. Unfortunately, we don"t have any details on those two cars, but we can see that they are both incredibly quick. The Nissan is particularly shocking, tickling the 7s with what sounds like a small engine as opposed to an LS swap.The ActionThe first racing action of the video shows the blue 4th generation Camaro tearing down the track. After a huge burnout, the beast stages, waits for green and rips out of the hole. The car jumps hard on the launch and with each shift, the Chevy muscle car dances all over the track, but the driver keeps the hammer down and runs an 8.851 at 174 miles per hour. There is also another clip of this run later in the video.Next, the ProCharged C5 Corvette hit the track and while it had a great launch and a clean-looking run, numbers that don"t make sense flash across the board, so we don"t know what it runs.The first good race of the video takes place between the blue Camaro and the Nissan S14. The Chevy redlights, giving the win to the Nissan, but then the driver lets off as the other car launches. As a result, the time for the blue Chevy was much slower, but the Nissan ran an impressive 8.452 at 173. #gallery-3 { margin: auto; } #gallery-3 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-3 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-3 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ <br style="clear: both" />
Date written: September 24, 2018
More of this article on the LS1 Tech website
ID: 13450
