Ls1 GTO opinions
 

Coming home from dinner last night I was following the wife and kids and this GTO comes blasting up the road. Its a 3 lane road that goes thru Kingsport TN. Lots of traffic. So he wants to play a lil since he's acting like a complete tool but hence theres traffic everywhere. We get to do a few short pulls past each other but that's about it. It was the GTO with the LS1( single exhaust and 5.7 badge on back). Auto from what I can tell. Question is if we got a red light with no traffic what would my chances be. Its not a race that's gonna happen some other time, as I didn't know the guy, im just curious as to what would have been. Havent had any real competition in the Z since I have had her( mostly just ricers that was laughable and I let out after first gear).But from what I read about the LS1 GTO, their stock 0-60 and 1/4 mile times are about the same as a stock 95 Z28. Again I say about. lol. I know not to mess with the LS2 GTOs with the few mods I have. But since this was an LS1, just wondering. Just let me know what you think.

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Stock vs stock, I'd bet on the GTO. Your gears would help initially, and your live axle has better launch characteristics than the wheel-hop-prone IRS on the GTO.

You might pull an early lead, but I would still expect the GTO to win at the top end.

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It would be a good race. You would have the advantage from a dead stop as the GTO is heavy. With your 373 gears you would have the advantage. I think it would be quite even through out the race. Its possible the LS1 GTO might edge you out at the end of the 1/4 mile. It really depends how much you beat him off the start.

Put a set of headers and a tune on your LT1 and you wont have a problem with a stock LS1 GTO and may even stay ahead of a LS2 GTO. I have run a few new GTOs from a dead stop and stayed ahead of a stock LS2 GTO by a length and half. Beat a stock LS1 GTO pretty easy.

I have seen some LS2 GTO's run low low 13's and then some LS2's M6's run high 13's to low 14's at Atlanta dragway. Got to be in the driver.

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Thanks for the imput. I was thinking the same as both of you. I figured maybe get him off the line and be dead even or he would reel me in at the end. LTs are #1 on my list of purchase and install items when my tax refund gets here. The local dragstrip holds events every week called street fights were you pay $10 to run as much as you want and I wouldn't mind seeing that guy there just to see the outcome. Its starting in a few months so we will see. Thanks again.