Even Motortrend thinks the Z06 is slow these days

http://blogs.motortrend.com/6238202/...low/index.html

April Fools!!

Just read it! Hahahahahahahahha! LOL

Until someone pulsl the GT-R motor out and puts in on an engine dyno, the %age drivetrain loss is simply a guess by all parties.

Once this has been done, people will see the drivetrain loss of Nissans AWD system is more than the approx. 12% loss on a DynoJet dyno for the C5/C6 drivetrain.

The best write up of a vette I've ever read.

I agree that the loss has to be more than 12%...there is no way its under 15%.

I have a hard time believing the GTR produces 530hp. If it were that much, the 997 TT would never be able to keep up. I know Nissan didnt freak up the gearing on the low gears that bad.

Did you look at the graph from motor trend on the previous page. Anything above between 70 and 80 is the z06. Why is it important? Well first because if the vette is ahead by 70 mph, then that means it accelerated faster long before that point to catch up from its 0-60 deficite. Also probably because along with the track articles it proves the koolade is a bit tainted. No one has done a legitamate (read not driven by a nissan driver or a track with a top speed lower then an auto cross course) track comparison.

No one has argued with you re: greater. What Im pointing out is that the 11 percent of the z06 is 450 rwhp to 505. If the nissan is 430 rwhp, as these tests indicate (oh and tests on a coupled dyno gave at best 450 rwhp as we would expect, which would be road conditions) then 505 engine hp to 430 rwhp would be higher then 11 percent, and actually it would be what we would expect. 15 percent drive train loss is perfectly reasonable. Any more then that that rear better have its own cooling system.

MOTOR TREND 2009 Nissan GTR Handling Test: Godzilla turns and stops as eagerly as he charges.

http://www.motortrend.com/roadtests/..._handling_test

http://images.motortrend.com/roadtes...+side_view.jpg

Done with Bridgestone Potenza RE070R RFTs.
Hmm, that's pretty damn good considering its weight.

Yes, it performs well and will eat through tires nicely.

Car and Driver, the magazine that tested the GTR running to 60 in 3.3 seconds, also agrees that the car's horsepower rating is probably an underestimate. See the letters to the editor section of this month's issue.

The car's trap speed at the end of the quarter mile says alot about how much work it has physically done and therefore it says a lot about the power as well. Here's a link to one of those ball park figure quarter mile calculators. Such calculators are far from perfect and don't take many variables into account but they do a fairly decent job regardless.

http://www.tunercalcs.com/hp-from-qu...rap-speed.html

The reason the straightline performance of the GTR is ever so fascinating is because it's obvious that the advertised power figure is wrong no matter how much traction magic and "more efficient horsepower distrubution" the computer dishes out.

Z06 vs GTR on the streets:

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/first...n-gt-r/734036/
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...post1564834849

The first story of the Vette driver is pretty alright, but the second one kinda make me feel like he's a jerk.