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Team Black Jack
Corvette makes a pretty good road car, especially in the sharp-looking top-of-the-line, Z06. The factory standard 650BHP moves the car along pretty well...
...but there's always room for a little "improvement", such as:
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changing supercharger pulley to boost the good stuff going in
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bypassing one set of catalytic converters to help the bad stuff out
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improving the cold air intake, again to help breathing
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and reducing the drag from the rear wing
All of which has bumped up the engine output towards 800BHP at the rear wheels... which get all that extra grunt onto the road with the addition of slick tires (for track use).
And since it would be a shame not to let the car have its head from time to time, Team Black Jack has done a little track work and some standing mile runs at the Texas Mile in Victoria, most recently at the end of March, 2018. Read on for a report...
Texas Mile, Victoria, March 23-25, 2018
The Texas Mile takes place on the airfield at Victoria, where a 1-mile course is set up on the main north-south runway.
From a standing start, speeds are electronically recorded at the quarter, half and full mile (after which there's a half-mile shut-down stretch before turn-off).
Participants are performance enthusiasts, with motorcycles, performance street cars, race cars and record-chasing land speed racers.
Here's how the March 2018 event went for Team Black Jack:
DAY 0 - SETTING UP
Starting from the very beginning of the weekend, here's the Corvette on it's trailer, staging into the event, support crew lined up behind.
DAY 1 - FRIDAY
Dawn on Day 1. Plenty for our intrepid driver to contemplate... (beyond the slightly distracting Porta Potties)
DAY 2 - SATURDAY
Our intrepid driver deep in contemplation at the beginning of Day 2, when we decided to feed into the running line mid-morning rather than stage the car the night before
DAY 3 - SUNDAY
Passing by a neighboring team's compound as we make another early start on Day 3, the Corvette having been staged close to the front of the line the night before
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