Mercury Marine LT-5

Kinja'd!!! "HammerheadFistpunch" (hammerheadfistpunch)
11/17/2017 at 12:19 • Filed to: None

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Neat little time capsule video on the Mercury Marine built Corvette LT-5.


DISCUSSION (6)


Kinja'd!!! Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > HammerheadFistpunch
11/17/2017 at 12:53

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I’ve just been reading about the “Black Widow” ZR-1's.

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Apparently Doug Rippie Motorsports made 8 tuned versions of the car, ranging from 450 to some with over 520 naturally aspirated horsepower, and painted all the motors matte black/red. Hence “Black Widow”

What’s weird is that there are apparently more black engines cars than the 8 that are accounted for, with various modifications similar to the original 8.

No one seems to have documentation for all these other black engines LT5's though.

Mysterious...


Kinja'd!!! Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast > HammerheadFistpunch
11/17/2017 at 12:56

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Also I’ll a period comparison with the 911 Turbo of the same era.

http://media.caranddriver.com/files/corvette-zr-1-vs-porsche-911-turbo-comparison-test-april-91.pdf


Kinja'd!!! HammerheadFistpunch > Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast
11/17/2017 at 13:01

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Man, the writing in the magazine used to be so much better. Its easy to forget.


Kinja'd!!! CaptDale - is secretly British > HammerheadFistpunch
11/17/2017 at 16:31

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I am literally in love!


Kinja'd!!! CaptDale - is secretly British > Danimalk - Drives a Slow Car Fast
11/17/2017 at 16:39

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Fuck, that is a good read


Kinja'd!!! Rufant > HammerheadFistpunch
11/18/2017 at 21:19

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Gee thanks... now I’m going down a ZR-1 rabbit hole, again...

Most interesting Vette imo.