T-tops town, headed toward yesterday around 6pm. I round a corner into a stoplight turnin left, and in the inside left-turn lane stands a bright red LS2 GTO. The Toyota Prius in front of me reads my mind quite well and leaves the the outside L-turn lane as he goes behind the GTO (Thank you hybrd! ). Driving up next to them i quickly change the song on my CD from Rap to Rock (Creme: Tale of Brave Ulysses). From what i could tell he had exhaust, dunno what else. Well after a few seconds of nodding/acknowledgement of two race-worthy cars, I sit and wait, and so do the two guys in the GTO. Light FINALLY turns green, we finish our left turns, im still in first and waiting for him to go, his rear bumper and my front wheels b/c he was in the inside lane. Then they punch it... and get about a length on me.

The second i hear them go, i drop the hammer and spin from 2.5k-4k (woohoo!), when i catch traction and finish first gear, i've put a length on them, and put about another half-length on them somehwere in second, we stay there and continue to run to about 75mph and slow down as not to kill ourselves when cars finally started appearing in front of us.

The look of surprise on their faces was pretty priceless, and I was so thrilled i finally got to do battle with an LSx car that all i could say was a very enthusiastic "GOOD RUN".

98 TA (Mods in Sig) vs 04+ GTO (exhaust, ?)+ uphill 2-lane 10mph-75mph... Trans Am (me) for the close win! Not a bad run for my first GTO.

Was the exhaust split (one pipe on each side) or did it have two pipes on one side? Did it have a R/A hood? If so, it was an LS2, otherwise, it was an LS1. Good run though. I shred my brother (and his LS1 GTO) a new one every now and again

It was the LS2, had the R/A hood, and it was too loud to be stock exhaust...Got me an LS2!! I just thought they put the LS2 in 04+, not 05+.

no. The first year of the new GTO (04) had the F-body drivetrain. LS1, L460E, dual channel trac., etc. The 05 added the LS2 (because the LS1 was replaced by TBW engines, saving the remaining for the CTS-V), quad channel trac, bigger brakes/rotors, etc. etc. etc (with the C6 Vette release)

good race those cars are really fast my buddy just sold his 03 cobra for a bright red one