It's all about the "gears". My old and HEAVY Excalibur had a stock 220-225 horse 302 with a 3.5 rear and T5 ultra low first and second gear ratio. Would easily fry the tires, "fast enough" to bring the read end out if you weren't paying attention. 0-60 was decent enough, power fell off real bad as you approached a 100 mph and forget about 5th gear helping at that speed!
