Dunno about the condition of the Vette or its driver, buuuuuutttt....

Jaguar XKR vs C5 Corvette - YouTube

 

if its a crap job blame the tools

 

Two years ago I ran against a C5 Z06 with my 99 XJR at the drag strip. I ran a 12.996 to his 13.008. Of course they're much faster cars, he just had a bad launch. Still made my day though.

Too bad the beginning of the run was not recorded. The camera kept shutting off because the batteries were dying.


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Here's the time slip:

 

That's gotta be 1000 feet and not a quarter mile, right? I can't imagine an XJR doing a 13 second quarter mile.

 

Damn! I just looked at the slip. That's a quarter mile! I had no idea an XJR could do a sub-thirteen second quarter. Wow! That's impressive.

And that's one of the old, steel XJRs, too, not one of the newer aluminum ones. Have you modified the engine?

 

As "Uncle Tom" McCahill would've said, "That's really haulin' the mail." :-)


Cheers
DD

 

Yes that a 1/4 mile. Only mods are exhaust and intake.

 

You done good.

From the reaction time he doesn't seem to have had that bad of a launch. He got the jump on the start.

edit: Have you got that timeslip laminated for inclusion in the sales kit for the next owner?

 

Yeah, I fell asleep at the lights. But this was only time trials so reaction time doesn't matter. I saw him running much faster times that day.

I don't think the next owner would want to know that I've been drag racing it.

 

Funny that I just noticed this thread. Our only home town drag strip - the 44 year old Kansas City International Raceway is in imminent danger of being closed down at the end of this season which is the last weekend in November.

Each weekend is threatening to be the last one.

My Dodge is on jackstands while I'm rebuilding the pushbutton torqueflight. So..... I decided to make possibly my last few trips down the quarter mile last weekend. I took the '03 XKR. It was crowded, so I only got two runs in.

I lined up against an rumbling open-header 2001 mustang with a 16-17year old teen at the wheel and thought my *** was grassed.

Well, he was kinda sleeping at the tree while "Dad" in his "luxury GT" left him standing still at the line. Surprisingly to me, he never caught up.

XKR ran 14.021 @ 100.98 mph to the mustang's 14.236 @ 100.38 mph!

Second run was 14.098 at 100.71 mph

I WAS surprised at the time she did turn - fairly respectable I'd say.

I guarantee if that $%#%$@$^%$ ZF 6HP26 TURD BOX of a tranny in our 03 and newer XKs would friggen hold 1st gear past 3000 rpm I could have bested that time by AT LEAST 2 tenths of a second.

I Hate HATE HATE that I can't manually shift into or out of 1st gear! It's bullsh*t!!!

But hell, our cars aren't made for that kind of duty anyhow, right?


If your interested here's some info about how the strip is being "taken" by the city.

KCIR is closing, and you didn't get a VOTE. - KCSR - THE Kansas City Forum
The Timeline of News feeds on KCIR's Closing - KCSR - THE Kansas City Forum

 

Yeah, that's the thing. Apparently the British are more into the top speed capabilities of these Jags than the 0-60 or quarter mile times as are us Americans.

These cars could be somewhat quicker in the 0-60 and quarter mile times if they were engineered that way.

OK, they can go 155 mph, that may be great for the Autobahn or some other places where you won't get thrown into jail for driving at those speeds, but here in America if would be better if they were engineered for a quicker start.

Though it doesn't bother me, as I am well past the phase of racing people from stoplights, I am sure that to a lot of other American XK owners would like if Jaguar had focused more on the short distances than the 155 mph top end.

The fastest I have been is about 145, and that was in the 70's, before cops had radar.

I'd love to get my Jag up to 155, but I don't have a place anywhere near to do it without fear of going to jail.

 

I agree about the top speed thing. Every time I see a cover of Motor Trend or Road & Track or some other magazine trumpeting that some car goes 175mph or 190mph or 205mph the first thing I think is "so what". I really care more about how briskly a car will get to 60.

Doug

 

Oh, I dunno. I've subscribed to various UK motoring publications and the writers talk about 0-60 acceleration all the time.







I think Jaguar usually goes for a blending of attributes when designing a car. And, let's face it, the overwhelming majority of Jag buyers driver their cars as though they were made out of glass anyway.

I'm just grateful that Jaguar has gotten back into the performance game. For many years they bowed out almost entirely and developed an image, IMHO, of have tons of style and elegance and very little else.

Personally though, I agree. I'd enjoy stronger acceleration much more than top speed numbers.....which, other than bragging rights, are pretty much academic.

Cheers
DD

 

0-60 is as meaningless to me as top end is. I don't race my car. I'd much rather have brisk mid range acceleration.

 

For some "mid-range" might be 10-145 mph :-)

Of course the 0-60 time doesn't tell the whole story about a car's performance any more than top speed does, but it does does provide an objective measurement.

Off-the-line ooomph is important to me, as is 50-80 mph acceleration for highway overtaking. It's not a matter of racing, though.

Cheers
DD

 

Clarification on what I said earlier.

1. I understand that Jaguar did not design the XK8 to be a stoplight racer and have the optimum 0-60 times. That was my point.

2. I am sure that everywhere on the planet there is interest in what time a car can go from 0-60.

3. We always get people coming to this forum shortly after they buy one of these cars, wanting to find out how to make it faster.

4. My point, once again, since I guess it was not clear the first time around is that Jaguar did not design this car to have the optimum 0-60 time, and, if they had, it would probably be a little faster in that area.

5. This is what I said before:
"Though it doesn't bother me, as I am well past the phase of racing people from stoplights, I am sure that to a lot of other American XK owners would like if Jaguar had focused more on the short distances than the 155 mph top end."

6. To me, the optimum area of performance for this, or most any other car that I, personally, am looking for is in the mid range, to allow me to easily pass cars on two lane highways when I need to as that is the only time that I really give it a chance to stretch its long legs.

 

I haven't seen anyone misunderstand or disagree with you :-)

Cheers
DD

 

I am COMPLETELY satisfied with the mid-range punch of my '03 XKR!

Nothing is so much fun as pulling into the left lane on the highway at about 50-60 mph to pass a dawdling slow-poke, and flooring it! Sheesh, it downshifts and simply hammers past other cars! I've seen 110 mph after an overtake many many times in the past 9 months that I've owned my car.

And the control, the precise feel of the steering when making a pseudo-kid move like that is refreshing too.

I know it's no Mercedes C65, twin-turbo powerhouse - but yeah! The Jag gets the job of midrange punch done JUST FINE.