Car Weight

I don’t care about the extra weight as much as I care about ease of working on it. I used to follow the rule 8’s and faster big block, 9’s and slower small block. Now that everywhere I race at I’m forced to run 1/8 mile in my class that tightens it up some. My fast big block Mopar friends are running 5.50’s-5.60’s. Most of them are running 5.65-5.85. So here I am running 6.0’s. Most and I’ll say ALL of them have help. I can’t quickly think of one that’s doing it by themselves like I am. So a few extra engine compartment inches pays dividends. Even if I rebuilt my 572 into a NA engine to run mid 5’s 50% of my races are against dragsters anyway and I wouldn’t be faster than those skateboards.