[Jeff Higgins]

Big power is fun, no doubt. In our world, that of sports cars and road racing, it can, however, be of questionable merit. It gets more guys into trouble than it helps. Especially the weekend warriors which, if we all admit it, includes all of us.

I am the proud owner of a 7.16, 188 mph official NHRA time slip. Not my car, and it took me several runs and a full day to work up to it. I cannot go into too many details, since this was not entirely by the book and the car owner would be in really, really deep doo-doo if the wrong officials found out. Suffice to say, I've known him for 40 years, we have spent a good deal of time wrenching on each other's projects over the years, and we trust each other. He has gone out as "me" in my 911 on some lapping days as well - he held the SIR lap record in his go-kart for awhile, so I know he knows his way around.

Anyway, the kind of power his car puts down is great good fun on a drag strip, on big wrinkle walls, with VHT all the way down to the traps. In a road race car? NFW - someone would die.