Like I said, I dont beat on it much.

The most I put the pedal in is 2/3 of the way in and that is if I'm really jettin around. I just casually let it spin up through the gears and this is usually enough to beat the "yo homey g" volkswagen jettas that prowl the streets around umass.

It was funny..I had some 45 year old lady try me at a stoplight...my friend was with me and I looked at him as we were accelerating and I notice she was hanging right next to me and said "is she trying me???" and he was like "Yeah dude, her front end keeps getting up higher and higher"...so I'm at about half to 3/4 pedal and I think she's near or at wide open throttle and even with me until the car shifts into 3rd gear and pulls 2 car lengths out of nowhere in like 2 seconds...it was the funniest thing I swear...I just looked at him and said '.....what the hell was that....??'

Re: timing/gas
 

Not neccesarily. I used to run 14 - 17 degrees base advance with 87 octane and no problems at all.

It can be done. Depends on the particular engine combo and individual engine characteristics.