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Lethal’s GT500 New Track Times 12/20/07 - Bone Stock with Stock tires and Drag Radials

So we headed out to the track again to take a few more runs down the track before we start our next phase of our project. Our goal was basically to get our best times with the car in full stock trim with the stock tires and then a set of drag radials. Our best time so far was a 13.20 which to us really wasn’t that impressive. Not only did we head out to the track with our normal crew this time but took along a good friend and 3x champ Jeremy Martorella from UPR Products to see what times he could pull off. The weather at Moroso was in the mid to low 70’s and very humid. Jeremy took the first shot at it and pulled off our best 1/4 time yet running a 12.68@109.90. His 60ft time on that run was a 2.014 and the 1/8th was an 8.287. Unfortunately after that run they closed the 1/4 for the rest of the evening because of the moisture on the back end of the track and only allowed 1/8th runs for the rest of the evening. Derek took a run at the first 1/8th pass still running the stock tires and pulled an 8.49. At this point we really started to get the hang of launching the car on the stock tires but it was time to move on as we were ready for some drag radial runs. We slapped the Hoosier 315/35/17’s on a set of 03 Cobra Chrome Replicas and bolted em up. The rims had the 99-04 offsets so they stuck out about 1.5″ from the fenderwell. They still cleared the rear brakes and that’s what really mattered to us.

Derek took the first crack at the drag radial run and pulled an impressive 8.01 on the 1/8th. The tires hooked real good. It’s really amazing how much of a difference the tires made from the stock F1’s. Next up was Jeremy and it got even better with a nice launch from around 5k rpms pulling off a 7.90@89.22mph with a 1.84 60ft. These were the times we were looking for and although we didn’t have a chance to run faster than that because we were hot lapping the car for the following runs we left the track very proud of how the car ran. Jeremy definitely felt that with a few more good runs we could see 11’s as he said the car could pull 1.70 60’s.

Below are our timeslips as well as some pictures and videos from last night. Time to start modding.