345 hp in 1986 is not a bad figure, considering how crappy most engines were back then<!-- Signature -->
230 hp stock <IMG SRC="http://www.supercars.net/servlets/cMsg/html/emoticons/smile.gif"><!-- Signature -->
you fools! look at the year , its a '86! thats a lot of horse power for back then. cars still sucked because of that shit that happened in the 70's that killed off muscle cars <!-- Signature -->
This corvette is bunk. I dont care if its a 86 or a 96 its only got 345 horse with a twin turbo V8.Maybe they should try NOS and see how many more horses they can pull out of that pig.
I'm not sure why a twin turbo would have so little HP. That is strange. Could it be a way for the HP to seem low for insurance reasons?
First off all the stock 85-90 corvettes ran 0 to 60 in 5.5 seconds witch is hardly slow for that time or even our time! second of all the stats on this car is way off so be ware of the sleeping giant. Coupe 191.5 mph - 308.2 kph Convertible 176.2 mph - 283.6 kph 0 - 60 mph 4.44 s 0 - 100 mph 10.50 s Standing 1/4 mile 12.77 s @ 113.1 mph http://www.callawaycars.com/Corvette/TwinTurbo/twinturbospecs.htm i have even seen numbers much lower than that. Now that i have cleared that up i just wantted to say you are correct the stock corvette was still rather slow for a V8 how-ever if you gut out the catalistic converters the numbers will sky rocket into the 4's
<!-- QUOTE --><center><hr width="90%"></center><blockquote><i>Quote from NOS inhaler</i> <b>This corvette is bunk. I dont care if its a 86 or a 96 its only got 345 horse with a twin turbo V8.Maybe they should try NOS and see how many more horses they can pull out of that pig.</b></blockquote><center><hr width="90%"></center><!-- END QUOTE --> oh and #$%# something up in the process b/c the motor cant handle it yeah y didnt i think of that
My dad has a 86 Vette with 415 HP. Twin Turbo's, Exauhst mods and a whole bunch of other stuff in the engine. It took us a lond time to do this but it was very worth it. Back then 345 HP was a lot. There were a lot of cars in 1986 that didnt even have 100 HP. There is a lot of power in the Vette engine's.
345 hp in 1986 is not a bad figure, considering how crappy most engines were back then. surely this is some kind of joke correct? i swear you americans are living in your own world sometime. tell you what, why dont you just forget about the fact that the rest of the world makes automobiles. pray i dont see you in a classic eurocar discussion in case i quote you from this thread.