RustyRatRod's Guide To Hot Rod Bliss

j par said

I agreed with you because just recently I put my street tires on my duster and it's close to 450 - 475 horsepower to the flywheel and it's just ridiculous on the street. anything over 3 Grand and the wheels are just spinning right off of it, and it does kind of have a power band that starts at 3 Grand and I just couldn't imagine driving that on the street all the time - it's almost obnoxious. Since the movie Fast and the Furious came out everybody has this wild conception of having a 10 second car. No one or at least barely anyone has been in a 12-second car and most don't realize that all these V8 Mustangs and Challengers and chargers are 13 and 14 second cars until you tell them. Of course there are exceptions.

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I'm about 400 at the flywheel. With 245 cooper cobras out back. And it absolutely will spin them at will off the line. Or just getting on the pedal. Or over 3k rpm and you get on it. Just about the only time it won't is if I'm giving it less than 1/4 throttle. I don't think a lot of people understand whats needed for 10 second street car. Or how they handle the street. They just know "oh so and so said his car does 10 seconds and it's not that bad". I call crap on that. A 10 second car will pin you into the seat at will and make you it's ***** if you don't respect it. 12 second street car is plenty and can be quite the handful in itself. In fact, 12 second street cars are too much for probably 90% of the drivers today.