on this episode of hands on cars
Kevin dyno test the said sled races it against a new z28
and does this
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zen sled feels great it feels excellent on this street
I'm very happy with how it's sorted out and it feels really strong so we're here
at DB are high performance in Spring Hill Tennessee to actually get to rear
wheel horsepower numbers and hope it is a blow up because you know it's a
salvage yard step after the foot of this thing but we're going to see
yeah
dbr high performance in spring l Tennessee is one of the southeast
premiere performance shops specializing in all things high-performance new or
old from a 700-horsepower steelers tribute el dorado to an 800 horsepower
all-wheel drive srt8 Pro Street monsters the world's fastest cadillac cts and
dozens of performance vehicles of every make model and year on deck to be tuned
on the state of the art eddy current chassis dyno by David Branson himself
we strap set sled down to the dyno plugged in some sensors cross our
fingers and waited for David to warm up the car to start some runs
well this is kind of the calm before the storm for a fire the engine I've got the
camera set and i have to tell you I'm as nervous as a cat in a room full of
rocking chairs but we're capable hands vbr high performance
they haven't let me down set sled we'll see
yeah
after several runs spinning this use 6-liter truck engine to just a taste
under 7,000 RPM
we ended up with a very respectable 347 horsepower and 334 foot-pounds of torque
to the tires that fun power on the street
all right what would you do differently to make power at mood so now that we
know it since let's put it down to the ground
got a couple hundred miles on the car is feeling really good everything is
operating like it should
it's making all the right noises now it's time to play
so we're here at NCM motorsports park in bowling green kentucky
if you've never been here you owe it to yourself to show up
go see the Corvette Museum come and see the track take part in one of the track
days there's training classes all kinds of great options and opportunities if
your motor sports at all even if you just want to watch
so it's a fantastic place for us the leg out since let's see what she's got
but it's not all about taking this car out and see what it does by itself
wouldn't it be fun to have something to compare it to there's been 37 years of
technological automotive development between when the time this car popped
off the assembly line to right now so what better reason
and what better way to compare our z28 to a modern z28
check this out check out this amazing vehicle
this is a 2015 c28 this is the holy grail
this is the mack daddy and the evolution of c28 since its inception in 1967 and I
have to give a giant shoutout to kenny rolls and rolls and sons auto salvage
for tossing us the keys to this amazing vehicle for the day we're going to try
really hard not to bend it
this thing is amazing right out of the box this one has 400 miles on it but if
you've noticed i'm wearing my jacket
it's 37 degrees out here it is cold
these tires are made for hot track conditions I've got street tires s let
so this weather may even even out and level out the playing field between the
two cars and gives its late a fighting chance
who knows what you're gonna find out with us are 1978 said sled project comes
in at about twenty six thousand dollars worth of parts and we discounted labor
because most guys building cars just don't factor in labor
our engine is a used truck engine 6 liter displacement lq4 iron block the
transmission is a forelady e 4 speed automatic that's out of a used service
fan thanks to multi use auto parts horsepower and torque are 414 horsepower
and 418 foot-pounds of torque 0 to 60
we don't really know yet we'll find out brakes are 13 inch front rotors 12 inch
rear single piston calipers all the way around classic performance products
suspension front wheels are 18 x 8 Billet Specialties wheels within
Eastwood coding tire size is 265 35 18 rear wheels are 18 x 10 with a 295 3518
bridgestone potenza street tire with a 400 treadwear rating curb weight on
xanax latest 35 hundred and fifty pounds so we're talking to Matt NCM Motorsports
Park Matt thank you so much for access to the track today this is a great
facility
tell me a little bit more about it yeah so we're on a road course facility
we're here in bowling green kentucky of hot rod town USA
oh yeah and so where were built primarily as a recreational facility
it's not some place for the ultra-rich complaints here for everybody
yeah so it's a 3.2 mile road course and as long as configuration we can section
that up into a two mile road course 1.1 mile road course and then we have a
really special outer loop which I incorporates corners from the mall where
the only place other than the more friends that you can do that so it makes
us really really unique
we do all kinds of HPD programs and HPD stands for high performance driver's
education
so it's it's pretty much a track day but instead of just going out there and
going fast we put an instructor in the car with you two to help you
mold your technique to make sure that you're doing it right doing it safe and
having fun
we also have some classroom that goes along with that we do that
I take probably 20 weekends a year so Wow like I said where recreational
facility trying to gather the golf courses out of business when weekend at
a time
that's fantastic well I I can't wait to get on the track thank you for letting
us have access to this plays out
absolutely and I hope it's not the last time we see you guys and projects led as
you know it's probably get about 200 miles on it and I hope we don't leave a
giant oil stain on your track was not the first time
awesome man thanks so much man maybe said it hands on cars is brought to you
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eastwood since 1978 but one of the concepts in my world is beta 1 customs
and of course TC panic owner and operator and TC has been here from day
one
this inception of sad / so this is it man
the cars done it's it's finished what do you think about it I just can't believe
it i'm so excited to see what this will do against that I $80,000 car we got
sitting over there
I know I know it's kind of like a David and Goliath thing isn't it
yeah yeah I can't get it warmed up to try to a woman up there so cold I got
icicles hanging out but i was just i know i know but you know I guess beggars
can't be choosers this in the offseason
there's nobody else here on the track so what we're gonna make hay while the sun
shining but I'm excited too but uh i don't know i mean for something like
this when you finish a project like this
what up do you just put it to bed and move on to something else or or what
well most talented because I'm excited about to build it's all about the bill
people ask me all the time like where's your car where's your car
well when i get done with him i'm ready to do another one so that's the beauty
of what i do i have people bring me new material constantly and i love the build
yeah why do too and I've been chasing on this thing I've been thinking about what
to do next
and you and I are going to have a conversation about maybe version 2 of
projects that's like what do you think about that could imagine probably going
to be extremely all right how do you top this
we got to figure it out but for now let's go out let's go burn some rubber
what do you say
sounds good right turn the heater on
going that way
62 0 breaking was a little embarrassing at first we got no lock up on the wheels
and I was timid on the pedal
it's a hundred eighty four feet that's horrible hundred eighty four feet we're
going to try one more
our second run was much better it around a hundred and forty feet which is still
not stellar but we can dial in the bias later the master cylinder the newsie is
a factory supercar with a dedicated computer to the ABS system and it shows
okay 60 20 I think I think we know who won and i can say it's about a hundred
and six feet so not for that test running through the codes at roughly 40
miles per hour we see just a hint of body roll with said slip but it's an
awesome improvement over stock thanks a classic performance products stage 3
suspension system on the newsie car
it is a slot car and thanks to a sophisticated stability control system
and technology that ties steering input and body roll directly to shock damping
and feedback
according to a GTECH meters s led netted 12.6 seconds on the quarter-mile not
paid for a cold and damp track but it dawned on me that I'd probably never
again have this opportunity to measure donut ability against a brand-new z28 so
my inner child took over the loud pedal
sorry Kenny
so instead he with Flame brunette marketing and PR coordinator for Holly
performance and blame thank you so much for holidays help and your personal
health you help me you were on the phone with me and do answering texts calls so
thank you very much for your help with projects and slit
I am so happy with how the Holly components are are doing their job
it has been the most painless part of this whole build so a lot of that I
think is due to the Dominator set up
well done a very nice job it does everything and it does it very well
yeah it's a good system I mean that's if you're running the system with the
automatic transmission control
yeah Dominator has that capability it also can run to
wideband o2 sensors and it's it's very versatile so you're set for for whatever
you want to do with this car with all the inputs and outputs that you can run
with it now and in the future
so I've had a ton of people compliment me on the sound of this car and it's all
Bolton exhaust as well as all the LS swap components so virtually anybody
could do this car right absolutely absolutely I'm you know you're using our
LS swap headers the long to ceramics and the complete exhaust system for the car
it all bolts in we've done our research on it and it's all designed to work with
our hooker engine mounts wat plates and our Holly engine swap oil pan - so you
know from your experience you know it's it's all bolton and anybody can do this
in the garage at home
yeah it's all bolted in the accessory drive of course as you know with the LS
engines the accessories are down and out in the only cars we got to get him up
and out and no clearance problems and I've got a steering box i don't have a
rack so its problems in good serviceability - yeah they're stealing
your back leaning over absolutely absolutely the thing looks very clean
under the hood to hire an intake manifold looks fantastic
getting back to the Dominator we've got plans for this car
naturally aspirated it's it's a very strong car it feels great but we want to
go to to another level of performance so i don't know i think i think a couple of
snails under the hood look good don't you absolutely absolutely filled out
room
sighs you're you you're totally capable for that now with the Dominator box and
it's got boost control capabilities and it also has traction control
functionality as well with another I think Ron Davis traction control unit
yeah that'd work that versatility is why we reach for the Dominator you see you
in the first place
yes you can strip down and only harness using an OE see you get a mail-order
tune on it and get up and running it that's great that's great if somebody
wants to do that but we didn't go full on budget build with this car
we went affordable pro touring and money spent well and in my opinion the Holly
components are going to not only that do they do what they do very well for this
level of performance in this platform but it's not it's going to get into the
next stage performance right sure sure
absolutely what do you say to some seat time with these cars absolutely go check
it out
yeah Blaine Burnett is an excellent driver and knows every nuance of this
track but need TC panic needed to warm up the career as a little form so we
took some liberties each car felt amazing but different at the same time
the 2015 z is an incredible car right out of the box and it has power for days
amazing handling and was very forgiving for any driver that SAT behind the wheel
it's a great car says led rumbled and roared it moaned around corners and felt
gloriously unrefined in the best possible way
there was no pushing in the corners it pulled strong off of an apex and
although the brakes were little prone to fade with street pads
it was confidence inspiring and very predictable to drive which is all i
could have asked for from this car
yeah
goodness John Bashar put together awesome motor and that thing really
holds a male around the track the the brakes got all soft on me because I was
pushing it out there on track you told me to go for it so but it was an
absolute blast and I just had to tone it down a little bit after so maybe a
little bit harsher compound or aggressive compound brake pad would help
out quite a bit and yeah and then i say that thing would be ready for for some
more track use for sure
I've never driven a z28 before 2015 model of that car is dialed in that car
feels like it's it's definitely ready to push the limit
very fast powerful motor and I say one of jeans best performance cars as they
come out with and it's still there and it's not jacked up in any way shape or
form it's going home to its owner so I feel great about that very very
appreciative for the opportunity to drive it today
this 2015 z28 is an amazing vehicle is brutally powerful it stops incredibly
it's so refined to drive
it's an incredible car it's an incredible price tag on it is almost
eighty thousand dollars
well from my money a little bit of time and energy a lot of Robin and a lot of
love and some help from some great friends
we have projects dead sled for about twenty six thousand dollars in parts we
didn't we didn't counter labor but who does on a weekend warrior scenario i
think this car wins
it's just because I'm partial so I want to thank you for watching hands on cars
big shoutout to kenny rows and rows auto salvage for letting us use a 2015 z big
shout out to bay 1 customs and my wonderful friends that have helped me
along the journey with project said slated thank you guys so much for
watching hands on cars it's been a pleasure doing these shows for you guys
so we're going to sign off her hands on cars projects dead Slade has come to a
close
thank you for working with us and helping with us and and realizing that
you can do the job right
with the help of these would so there's one more thing we got to do
we started this whole thing out saying we'll do a burnout and i'm here to tell
you it will in fact do a Burnout
yeah
haha whoa
sure that hard baby
yeah