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B3422w5 said

Or, those of us who do indeed think the mph is off

Estimate Quarter-Mile ET from MPH

My current car, when I got it, ran 12.20’s at 109-110
Much more in line with the above.
110.xx is low for 11.80 in most any car I have seen at the track( except for class type cars, which typically underperform in the mph dept, compared to the ET they run)
Bear in mind too, the OP’s car is quite light as well. Wallace put’s that mph and that weight at 315 or so horsepower, I bet the car safely makes a good bit more power than that.

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And that’s why I said a time skip isn’t the do all, bee all, end all in telling performance. It’s not and it’s not very accurate unless you know what the engine should make for power in the weather conditions for the day.

Then you can look at the time slip and trust it.

Of course even that assumes can bite you in the keester because I’m still stunned by how many people don’t know the exact weight of their car.

I was at the track a week ago with a friend and a guy says “what’s the car weigh”? It’s a 73 Duster with iron heads.

So I told him. And the dude is insulted. He says there is no F’ing way the car weighs that much.

And I do know what it weighs because it’s been scaled. With my friend in the drivers seat with his helmet it’s 3600 on the nose with a full tank.

I weigh about 90 pounds less than he does and the tank was 3/4 full so I told him 3500 with my pig sized fat *** in it.

He figured it was in the 3200 pound range and I laughed. It’s a 73 dude, it’s heavy.

Without knowing exactly what the car weighs you are just guessing what you make for power with a time slip.

I was probably plus or minus 20 pounds so I was close.