Nah at 152 theres just no more room for gear. This happens quite often with cars designed to go fast at lower RPMs. You could change that and gear it in a completely different aspect... raise the stall maybe even stick in an automatic with overdrive and lengthen all the gears. But whats the point. How often do you drive 152mph. I don't consider that sad by any means. It's street legal and it out performs every car I've had it up agaisnt except some people with $40,000+ put into their car with mods and NOS. My Camaro does 95 at 2,300 and about 4,800 at 152. Sure I could build it with deeper walls and make it do 95 at 4,500rpm and 152 at 7,500rpm but then it would sound a lot like more of those lame rice cars out there with big fart pipes and 4 cylinder engines. That pretty much destroys the point of having a muscle car with drag perfs. It's all about your tranny linking with the engine. There are many Camaros made with just the reverse... back in 1997 Chevy built a Camaro with a 9.2 litre engine and 12.1 compression that had over 950 horse and 860 torque. This car looked and felt just like a standard Z28 inside the car... until you hit the gas. You can build a car just about anyway you please and you're going to get varying performance from the different ways you change it... that's no secret.
BTW: Ren you're correct about aerodynamics. Even with my car the hood has serverly decreased the power of my car. Due to how much wind it displaces. It's kind of sad but I need that much clearance under the hood. Vipers, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Lotus, Porsche *cough*, are all made with aerodynamics in mind. Aside from having superpowered V8s to V12s, yes, thats the bulk load of what makes them all that much faster. As well as carbon fiber bodies and aircraft aluminum frames in some cars.
Jim
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