[justa6]

Good morning...

I thought I'd comment on your comment about>>>In all fairness to the BB guys you are running a pro built Nascar 6 while many are running an engine that Nascar stopped using 30 years ago.

Well mine was stopped almost 20 years ago and its still 274 inches<G>

Anyway, my point was that it seems to me that everyone tries to measure their cars performance by either Real horsepower or theoretical horsepower. When, in fact, its meaningless unless you can get it to the ground. The cars actual performance is the real measure. Needless to say a lot of people could care less about how fast their car is, they just love to drive it. Which is also fine.

Adding more and more horsepower without getting the car to be fast first is "less than optimal" in my opinion. I mentioned that I've thought of running Nitrous for the hell of it but I won't until I get the car really set up as is. I think 10.5 is possible on the motor. IF that happens then a 150 shot of NOS should be a no brainer high 9's. But then again I may just be happy with the mid 10s and no "help"...

Also, the above is simply my opinion and we are all entitled to do it our own way. Mine is only right for me...

JIM: No, the setup for my car is as it came from Johnex. No bars, 4:11 Ford 9" with a Powertrax center section. Tremec Road Race 5 speed whose overdrive mitigates the 4:11's on the street. I use Mickey Thompson ET Streets 8" wide. I'm thinking of going to 10" "Streets" to see if it will go mid 10's. Launch RPM right now is 6000 and side step the clutch. The tires "chirp" and the car leaves so the bigger tires might not help. I've got the shift light set for 7400 RPM and rev limiter set at 8,200.

Regards,