RustyRatRod's Guide To Hot Rod Bliss

Lustle said

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.

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I am only going to speak for myself but I would never run a conventional rear tire on my barracuda, I only run drag radials and they hook pretty decent actually......or at least good enough the car launches straight forward. I think it would be ludicrous to run around in a high 5 hundred horse car with passenger tires.......dangerous to me. And who in thier right mind would ever intentionally take thier 4-600 horse car out during the rain anyway, irreguardless of what tire you would have on it, it would still handle like crap and risk wrecking our cars. I do drive around in a 10 second street/strip car and it doesn't phase me in the least, I love it actually, and I'm thinking about turning it up a little. If I only had 400 horse in my car with all the other modern hot rods out there that run decent I would constantly be getting my butt handed to me. So I will take my 500 plus street/strip car anyway and wax 98% of anyone you may run across and feel great about myself. Thanks.