Actually John down the street has a beater ( 1970 Dodge Dart, 509 CID 6 pack, 727 slap stick, Dana Posi read ) it is a punched, shaved, plumbed, balanced and blue printed 440 which is street able and runs faster than most in a street 1/4 but out right blows the doors off almost everything put against it on the Highway with the 3:23 rear gear. It also has the T/A (TransAM)suspension package snatched from under a AAR Cuda under it.
Everything on it is American made and it was built in his garage over a couple of years as a weekender project. He now has 426 Max Wedge (not HEMI) which he is going to get really wild with and stuff into 1934 Dodge Coupe.
He belongs to the same Mopar Club that I was thinking of joining some years back when I still owned my last SuperBEE 383/6 pack Borg Warner ST-10 4 Speed Dana Posi.
I've owned a number of of Mopars, a few Chevy's and some Fords, but will always hold Mopar above the others personally.
The thing is, those cars are not worth a damn when a over powered go cart is the right thing to be driving. As Jafo pointed out earlier in a post, HP does not always equate to crossing the finish line first.
Jag for instance had a real problem first with over steer and then with under steer trying to hit the fine line of high speed, high power turning for a time. Datsun Z cars did the same thing for a time (Personally I feel the 240, 260 and 280 were re-vamped smaller versions with some engineering changes while keeping the best of Jag in place).
My 280ZX Turbo 5 speed is extremely fast, holds to 160 - 165 mph without over working itself and has plenty of jump even at that speed when pushed. It handles sweet but still corners sloppy on tight turns and you have to drive the car at speed when turning otherwise you are going to find out how well it will do off road or in a roll...
My dream cars beyond a HEMI Dart GT, the Vector and the Pantera both make use of Italian and British worked engines respectively, another would be the GT40 with a high riser 427 hemi (yes Mopar, GM and Ford all had Hem's, Mopar just holds the rights to the name).
The new street cars of today are rather amazing really when you consider they take an Engine which is sized by CC instead of CID and what was otherwise thought of a Lawn Mower engine with a header 20 years ago and can turn out 500 Horse Power with it today. The thing is, you are still looking at a number of engineering problems when it comes to steering, body twist, tracking, braking, traction and crash safty...
*Does anybody like cars here?*
yes at one point I used to do more than just like them...
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