Headers and tires and you were taking 5.0's? Okay, well maybe the 1979-1980's, and the 1983-1986 CFI's.
Otherwise, I call total BS.
A 180hp car against a 175-225hp car that weighs 500lbs less and launches good is a pretty out there claim. Those 79 TA's were good for high 16sec quarters. La dee da. We used to take those things in my buddies 307 powered 84 Cutlass, and he would get slaughtered by every single 5.0 he raced. It was a nightmare to him. He'd go and race the early mid/late 70's and 80's Fbody cars and he'd beat them. Then he'd race mid 80's to later 5.0's and get whooped. It drove him insane. Every single time. He's now the owner of a '87 Mustang GT, if you can't beat 'em join em. He's never been happier. No more endless weekends working under the hood, no more days and nights under the pile trying to figure out what was wrong.
I heard there was some "special" limited edition Trans Am with a 455 or something that could actually run, but all the rest, including that sick *** 6.6L, 350, and whatever else they slapped in that thing that were just worthless. I beat those cars in my fricken 140hp Mustang II with an auto and 170k on the odometer, just plain pathetic dude.
You're talking a 2sec discrepency here. That's like claiming a 1996-1998 Mustang GT beat a couple LS1's, with just headers and tires. Yeah, not a prayer in hell.
As far as not calling his car stock? Like I said before, no gains worth mentioning, it's stock. His car probably hasn't even picked up a tenth over the factory time. What, do we start having to call our cars modified when we have SVO spark plug wires on them?
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