I was just wondering if anyone has ever seriously raced a 94-96 Impala SS and how did it do? I know they have a 5.7 just wondering how they would run against a turbo or N/a RX

 

I raced one in my '90 GTU when I had it. He walked me, but not too badly.

 

the imps are fast but not rocket ships, remember the imps weigh over 4000 lbs. just to compare i friend of mine had a 96 with a bunch of **** done to it and he only ran a 14.0 in the quater, i could walk him in my 85 from a dead start, we would usualy run up to 100 mph or so, but on a roll any thing over 35 mph he was always ahead. the 13b has more torque tham my 12a so, you may not have the problem with the rolling start thing. watch out tho, most of the guys with imps are spayin, so you never know.....

 

A guy I work with just installed a supercharger on his Impalla SS. That's one car I won't be messing with, ever.

 

yea, those are pretty nasty. thares a guy over in europe that is running twin turbos on an imp, he hits over 200 mph on the autobahn, thats with a specialy built 15,000$ tranny tho....

 

They have the LT1 350 and a horrible tranny shift plate and terrible suspension. It is a land yaht, but it has a pretty peppy 300hp motor too. Dropping in a shift kit, some stiffer springs, and a cam will yield a hell of a contender regardless of the size of the chasis. Get them in the twisties and they'll be owned by a bone stock vert.

 

FYI...

Impala SS has an LT1, weighs 3600#'s (dry) and are about as fast as any run-of-the-mill V6 F-Body.

They also only run Mid-15's. Any N/A RX-7 w/ intake and exhaust should at least walk one. Imp vs. TII? TII no contest... unless it's running 0psi and rolling on flat tires.

 

ummm where are you getting this from? The old impala SS with the LT1 in it was good for solid mid 14's all day long. A n/a is going to have a bitchin time keeping up, and a stock t2 is going to get pulled if it's from a stop.

 

I'd also like to add that the Impala SSs(?heh) were available with 383s (6.0 liter) V8s.

 

260 hp and 4180 lbs. That doesnt seem like a 14 second car to me :|

 

Terrible suspension? I don't think so... The Impalas weren't like the caprices (the yachts). And they usually run 15.3-15.7 stock. And they can keep up with a from the shop rx7 in twisties. They weigh in around 4,100lbs. I drive their counterpart, the caprice daily. In a TII you shouldn't have any issues beating it. NA? Well, it'll be either close, or you'll get owned horribly.

 

eh...I guess every mid 90's Impala I've seen at HRP was not stock. I saw many 14 second passes being clicked off. :shrug: for the record the rx7 isn't really a drag car

 

No they weren't. They all had the 5.7L LT1 with 260 hp, down from the 285 hp rating in the F bodies due to the exhaust.

 

I've test driven several of the `94-95 impalla SS's. None of them has had a suspension I would call "remotely adequate" in the twisties.

 

Seeing as the topic is the mid-90's Impala SS's... no... they wern't.

As per where I'm getting these numbers... if you'd run a search of this board for Impala SS (I believe I spelled it Impalla) then you'll see that was the "target" I origionally started building my car for... it's moved on to lower ¼-mile targets since then...

 

I've driven a '96 for a month, it did better than my '86 rx7 did in the twisties. I'd kill for a '96 with a 502 & T56 B-bodies are just great

 

"Its home-sweet-home is the street, and here, chassis improvements made over the last 25 years stand out. The Impala's front suspension features the same independent short and long arms, steel alloy coil springs, and stabilizer bar as the current Caprice, though the settings are firmed up to heavy-duty standards. In the rear, all cars on the platform have a four-link live axle with coils, stabilizer, and shock absorbers 10 millimeters larger; the Impala is tuned stiffer. Handling, with quick firm-feel power steering, is so good this setup ought to be expanded to the entire Caprice brotherhood. The SS has a natural tendency toward tail-happiness, we found, but clocked 62.9 mph (versus the Caprice's 61.7) in our 600-foot slalom. An 0.83g figure was scrubbed off theskidpad, a negligible difference from the Caprice's 0.82." ~ Motor Trend 1994

0.83g's is nothing to write home about, and 62.9 mph in their slalom is pretty ******* sad.

 

****, give the thing a break, its a 4500 lb sled!

 

And .86 as the rx7's get is?

And the RX-7 got 66.8mph in an identical setup to the 600 foot they ran the Impala on. Pretty ******* sad?

 

Why are we comparing a full chassis 4 door family car to a 2 door sports coupe? Impala SS's can be quite lethal.... I have seen a handfull of daily driven SS's at the track here in orlando running 11's. There is a Twin Turbo Impala SS that prowls the town... along with a few TT LS1 camaros.

 

And not to mention, the .81g's on the '89 GTUs, the rx7 racers dream....

 

4 mph is a pretty big step up in 600 ft when you think of V8 torque vs an N/A rotary.

EDIT: Oh, and not to mention the 255 short sidewall rubber on all fours on the impala is going to hold a little better than the 195's on the 7.

 

Dudes!! Whats the point in debating this any further?
Isn't it totally obvious? The RX-7 handles better, and the impalla is faster, more reliable, and a hell of alot more comfortable!
Case Closed

 

205's on the rx7
Not bad for a 4 door family sedan! Heh, here we go:

 

205s on the TII.