[s-cars] //S8: 0 - Mk1 ZO6: 1

[Bruce Mendel]

I think the MK1 Z06 has 400+ HP, not the current generation's 505HP.

And the S8 is 360HP, not 340, thank you very much. :) The C5 S6 and B6 S4
are 340HP.

B
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Postupack, Jeff" <Jeff.Postupack at analog.com>
To: <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Cc: "andrew postupack" <dudeman03755 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 4:27 PM
Subject: [s-cars] //S8: 0 - Mk1 ZO6: 1


>
> Paul,
>
> so the //S8 is running 340 HP on a High octane day, and the Z06 is ~ 505
> HP..
> hardly a POS.
>
> I would have thought the Vette Should have walked away.. man, GREAT
> story!
>
> All I can say is that dub was a crappy driver or..he doesn't follow the
> Mullane theorem
>
> " Never Let Off Until the Bitter End"
> {Luv that Tom! }
>
>  (now don't puff up any more about this)
>
> you're driving skill, anticipation and nerve clearly exceeded what he
> had.
>
> Dub learned the old axiom, Old Guys Rule!
>
> well, er, you're NOT an old guy yet..  that'll change round about
> Teenage years..
>
> Twin girls, OMG. plus Tyler.. @ //S Fest.. imagine that
>
>
> Posto
>
>
>
> Message: 2
>
> Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:50:52 -0400
>
> From: <pkrasusky at ups.com>
>
> Subject: [s-cars] //S8: 0 - Mk1 ZO6: 1
>
> To: <s-car-list at audifans.com
>
>
>
> Morning Germs-
>
> Funny encounter commuting home last evening. Thick but moving traffic
>
> nearing my hometown, cruising innocently in left lane @ 71 maybe, go by
>
> a blue Mk1 Z06 coupe in middle lane that's just trodding along. Good
>
> looking car, I dig them and that color personally.
>
> Soon as I'm next to him I see the window go down, and a kid (looks like
>
> Brian Weldon for some reason) start making all these goofy 'what up
>
> homey' type faces and gestures at me - then proceeds to revrev drop gear
>
> and start surging. HA! *Where* we going here exactly, we're all pretty
>
> jammed up 4 lanes wide, I wonder. Genius.
>
> I let him blast in front of me, we cruise a few miles. Funniest is I'm
>
> on the phone at this time with Chris Hawkins chatting about all the
>
> madmadmodz he's done and will be doing to me old beast. I see traffic
>
> dissipate ahead and inform Chris - "um - sorry I'm gonna have to get
>
> back to you as I'm about to lay the smack down with this Z06" - sorry
>
> Chris.
>
> He stomps and snaps a downshift way before I get to 3rd and he's off but
>
> I'm keeping him 'there' ahead. Car clogs him, I approach, car moves
>
> aside this time I'm ready for the poofboomsquat ahead. 4th gear @ 100
>
> cruise with a perfectly timed stomp. POS's them things are, I'm able to
>
> time my WOTstomp very easily as the thing - rolling @ 100 mind you -
>
> does this funky squat / twist / step-to-the-left in front of me as he
>
> drops a gear. HA! Sweet refinement / engineering there not.
>
> Game time. Through 4th he's pulling a length or 2 but I'm still
>
> 'there', into the middle areas of 5th he's not pulling and I'm not
>
> gaining. His sack shrivels and I go by him. I lift, and wait. And
>
> wait. He's now @ 65, back into middle lane - then over to the slow lane
>
> and now will not come ANYWHERE near me.
>
> HA! Humbled by a Luxobarge... I'm guessing he bet on wailing on me
>
> significantly harder than that.
>
> I exited with a quick up-thumb out me window, which he actually returned
>
> - sheepish grins on both of us. Good stuff.
>
> Unrelated, last week I went by a neuZ06 on my way home, again in slow
>
> lane and doing like 58. Silver. As I went by him then gazed at in me
>
> mirror - gotsta say... that thing looks downright frickinfabutastic on
>
> the road it does! Veryvery sinister looking car, great stance. I've
>
> yet to whirl either a Mk1 or 2, really would like either opp some day
>
> butofchoorse - verymuch looking forward to that I am.
>
> An now for something, completely different: a man with 3 buttocks. I
>
> installed new OE front Brembo rotors last night with Ferodo DS2500 pads.
>
> OMG pedal feel and brake action is absurdicle. Yeahbaby yeah. Gotta
>
> love brake installs that take longer to jack up and remove wheels than
>
> does the brake job. In and up and down and out in < 30, sweet.
>
> -Paul with a tape recorder up his nose K.
>
>
>
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