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Originally Posted by CurtEgerer
You could be right Jeff. But I have been going to some drag races over the past 1 or 2 (after a 20+ year absence) and it's incredible what some of these cars are doing. Example, the Factory Stock FS/XX cars (no nitrous) are running low 8s, which really blows me away 
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Oh, I know, Curt, these things are just stunning by the standards we grew up with. Here was one of my favorites as a kid, the Sox and Martin Duster. I got to sit in it once... Anyway, 426 Hemi with two 1150 cfm Holley carbs on a tunnel ram manifold, camshaft with something like .700+ lift, 2,000 rpm "idle" - and it ran mid 9's at about 145 mph.
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Originally Posted by JackDidley
You are absolutely right. Just because a car is street legal that does not make it a street car. It also will not pass tech at a NHRA event. It has a powerglide transmission not the 8 speed trans that it came with. That said, it is impressive engineering to do what it does. It gets down the track without big slicks because the power curve is controlled by adjusting timing and fuel in the cars computer. I have been to LS fest and seen some insanely fast street cars that look like grocery getters. One of my best friends has a C6 Vette that runs 10s and is a true street car.
Aint technology grand ?? 
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Yup. Say, you will notice Gene playing with some sort of an electronics box mounted to the front hoop of the cage at about 1:50. That is the programming box for his FAST engine management system. He has several fuel and ignition maps loaded into it. When racing, it's methanol and some outrageous advance, along with insane levels of boost (it has an adjustable wastegate separate from the FAST system). On the street - and it is licensed - it's pump gas, less advance, and less boost. Damn thing gets 20 mpg on the highway. No kidding.