Thread: Kid Revs 580 Horsepower Corvette Like A Champ

Originally Posted by PMAZ7

No offense but it's remarks like these that have contributed to the puscification of this generation.

So you'd let a kid get in your 150k race car and rev the piss out of it? I don't care about his safety, I care about my damned car. This car probably has a Hollinger or an EMCO, so a wayward tap on the shifter would put it in gear.

Making sure a kid doesn't do something stupid is simply protecting your investment. It is NOT the same as scoreless soccer games.

Originally Posted by LSxJunkie

So you'd let a kid get in your 150k race car and rev the piss out of it? I don't care about his safety, I care about my damned car. This car probably has a Hollinger or an EMCO, so a wayward tap on the shifter would put it in gear.

Making sure a kid doesn't do something stupid is simply protecting your investment. It is NOT the same as scoreless soccer games.

I so hope you are trolling

What that kid did wouldn't hurt a motor. Now the idiots that rev the crap out of the car bouncing it off the limiter contanstly is hard on an engine, especially the fools that don't know how to do a burnout and just burry their foot to the floor and bounce off the limiter while doing a burnout.

Put the parking brake on and let him rev it.

Originally Posted by The Alchemist

What that kid did wouldn't hurt a motor. Now the idiots that rev the crap out of the car bouncing it off the limiter contanstly is hard on an engine, especially the fools that don't know how to do a burnout and just burry their foot to the floor and bounce off the limiter while doing a burnout.

Put the parking brake on and let him rev it.

Well said.

Originally Posted by JoshGoler

Well said.

very well said, I highly doubt that this childs guardian would put him in harms way, im sure the car had the parking brake set. yes, accidents happen but the kid looked well supervised. and as far as the car goes, i highly doubt those short revs had any negative effects on that car other than and extra 10 bucks at the gas station.

Originally Posted by PMAZ7

No offense but it's remarks like these that have contributed to the puscification of this generation.

I stand by my original statement.

Regardless of if it is a race motor or not, taking any engine up to redline with no load COULD be detrimental for an engine. Now in a race car sure the chances of this really hurting anything are slim to none as long as you don't hold it on the limiter. I think it is awesome that this kid got to do this, I am jealous!

Re-listening to the video, it sounds like it has a 2-step in it. So with the clutch in or not in gear, it sets the limiter to like 4000 rpm or whatever you determine, but while moving, it has the normal limiter. They do that so that at the beginning of a race, you hold the gas to the floor, and it holds the rpm at a preset rpm until you drop the clutch. It makes for more consistent starts. There's no way he rev'd that motor to 7000. Even if he did, it was for a breif moment.

Originally Posted by Dan Martin

As cool as that is, I would be afraid that he could accidentally pop it into gear. There should be someone sitting next to him at least in case something went wrong.

I'm sure the kid will remember it forever though!

Originally Posted by LsxJunkie

This car probably has a Hollinger or an EMCO, so a wayward tap on the shifter would put it in gear.

Not many privateers run a $20k sequential. Near the end of the video as the car is driving off, you can hear the driver clutch-in and free rev it.

Originally Posted by McFlurrey06

How many exhaust outlets did that car have?

Originally Posted by [Petrolsexual]

What about the 2 in the rear?...

May likely be a convertible setup for compliance with noise ordinance at different tracks. Somewhere like Fontana where the cars run open and loud he may run with the side exit setup, whereas at a track like Laguna Seca where the dB level restrictions are absurdly low, he might reroute to a set of mufflers at the rear of the car.