Today iam going to look at a 01 and 03 z06 and im just wondering what people are doing to them to get some real power and what kind of power they can hold untill the stroker motor comes.

 

The stock motor can make about 385 RWHP (equivalent to about 440 Hp rating) with lite mods - cold air, headers tand big cats, a good cat back and a really good tune. The stock bottom end canhandle around 450 RWHP if not abused: more than that and you could be in trouble, more than 485 and you will definately have a short motor life.

A stroker motor can take anywhere from a bit to a lot more depending on who built it. I have two, one in the vette and one in the Camaro an both put other over twice the stock rear wheel HP with no real concerns about durability.

 

so the people that i see running a cam and 175shot there not on the stock bottom

 

Maybe, most "175 shot" dry kits actually add about 130-140 RWHP, and often don't work well with the cam, so I've seen set ups like that that put down only around 465 RWHP. Dry kits generally give only about half the advertised gain without a good deal of tuning and the big kits like 150 and 175 gains often require new injectors, etc., and a lot of ECM retuning to work well. Many people won't spend the money on the tune (you can go through a whole bottle, or more, just getting it tuned well).

But if it is tuned right and the cam is picked to make max use of the NOS, it can push the engine to past 525 RWHP: I've seen a number at that level come apart on the strip (including one of my original stock engines, at about 540) and none last more than about 15-30 quarter mile runs. It's difficult to know what goes first, but on my engine, after taking what was left of it apart, we suspected a rod.