[newmoon]

You know I love this, two bad ass street cars going at it, having fun! Thank you for the post.

All this takes me back to the late 90s - mid 00s and makes me appreciate how special a car I had way back when. It was a 86 Mustang GT with a 347ci stroker motor built by Ed Curtis of Flowtech Induction. It was a full interior car with a cage, and had a few tricks to it but still could drive anywhere on the street. That car ran 11:20s on motor and 10:30s with a 100-shot on DRs. She was competive for a few years in true street events but the bar soon moved taking 9-sec to be in the hunt. Now she didn't handle worth a dam, but she sure was fun. Racing that car against the street muscle of the time including 5.0s, Camaros, Grand Nationals, was a blast and IMO is what building a car is all about.

Looking at these new supercars, sporting 550-680 hp stock, only to be modded with new superchargers, pulleys, cams, gears, headwork, tunes, etc, etc, yet running slower than my poor mans hotrod that made 200hp stock makes me wonder are we really moving forward with modified street performance or backwards?