So one of my friends say his other friends 95 gt with 5.0 and 5 speed could do 150mph in 4th gear and it would smoke z06's. i love fords but this sounds a little off to me
Anything can happen when you race. You forgot about a lot of details. To take out a stock 01-04 Z06 from a roll, your friend needs about 425rwhp. To take out a stock C6Z, he will need about 530-550rwhp to clearly pull ahead. The 427 is a major ass kicking machine in stock form.
The 5.7 LS6(C5 Z06) needs about 50-75hp more hp than a stock 7.0 LS7(C6 Z06) to be able to keep up, and the weight is around the same. Larger displacement is huge, especially when you get the cars rolling out past 100mph.
You need roughly 250-270 crank horsepower to hit 150 mph depending on frontal area and drag coefficient.
To hit it in 4th with a T5 you'd need to spin the engine to at least 6500 rpms with a 3.27 rear gear, over 8000 rpms with 4.10's.
The 5.0 design is good, but from the factory it just wasn't designed to make the kind of power a Z06 can put down. With a stronger block, heads and cam designed to rev, and 3.73 gears, it could hit 150 mph in 4th if it can rev to 7500, and that's possible. But the level of power it needs to make to be faster than a Z06 just in a 1/4 mile requires more than just heads and cam. Displacement is king for a reason. Turbos and superchargers increase the effective displacement, but you still have the problem of rpms and rear gear.
I'm not saying it's not possible, I'm saying I don't think I've ever personally seen a 5 liter fox body actually capable of doing it, maybe on a trailer but certainly never driven on a city street even on a weekend. Despite what you hear on a weekend standing around a parking lot.
It's a fine car even if it can't beat a Z06 or hit 150 mph in 4th. I'd just smile and nod unless I owned a Z06. Then I'd want to race
ya im pretty sure all he has is lt's o/r pipe and idk what cat back. he doesnt know how to drive stick very well so i call bull****. hes a broke ***********er so he doesnt have much into it