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those supra's always trap awesome speeds, but out of the whole the ind. rear always gets them along with most of them are man. trans so they can't build boost from a dead stop. I ate one alive at Rochingham a few years ago with my GN because the guy had a T88 that took 3/4 of the track to spool up!

Here's a Supra sure to tick off the country boys of this bd.
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/e18bf241-8b1b-4857-8a75-999900727758.htm
 
i just don't like jap cars, woo hoo you can get some horsepower up at 30,000RPM whoop dee doo. where's your toque curve at, also right next to redline? very usable. i'm into GM american cars. having a jeep is a far enough push towards :poop:, damn Chrysler "engineering". i'm not a fan of something that sounds like it is letting out one huge ass fart as it goes down the road. you've obviously seen the 56 pontiac i'm going to start to build up as soon as i can find a suitable platform, but why does that make me an idiot? i'm almost done with my 72 skylark restoration, i've already gone through a 72 cutlass and 68 chevelle, my brother has a 72 lemans which is going under the paint gun this summer, and then there's my dad's other 56 pontiac 2dr with only 29K miles and all original. that's what i'm into, not something 85% plastic with no character. dump as much money as they did into that hunk into a good old American muscle and it'll whoop that plastic butt while looking better too
 
You've obviously never seen the power curve on an american drag car that will run similar times. It's a purpose built drag car, it's not meant to be "usable"

Low 8's aren't that easy to do.. you can't just throw a BBC in anything and expect it to run those times.
 
just don't like jap cars, woo hoo you can get some horsepower up at 30,000RPM whoop dee doo. where's your toque curve at, also right next to redline? very usable. i'm into GM american cars. having a jeep is a far enough push towards , damn Chrysler "engineering". i'm not a fan of something that sounds like it is letting out one huge ass fart as it goes down the road. you've obviously seen the 56 pontiac i'm going to start to build up as soon as i can find a suitable platform, but why does that make me an idiot? i'm almost done with my 72 skylark restoration, i've already gone through a 72 cutlass and 68 chevelle, my brother has a 72 lemans which is going under the paint gun this summer, and then there's my dad's other 56 pontiac 2dr with only 29K miles and all original. that's what i'm into, not something 85% plastic with no character. dump as much money as they did into that hunk into a good old American muscle and it'll whoop that plastic butt while looking better too
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Is your head oblong from when you were dropped as a child? And btw pretty sure you've never built anything that could whoop that things "butt". I on the other hand just put my left nut on ebay to buy this thing. ANYONE INTERESTED? They are tested
 
raleighjeepguy said:
I on the other hand just put my left nut on ebay to buy this thing. ANYONE INTERESTED? They are tested
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What are, your nuts as a whole ("they") or just the left one? 'Cuase that one by itself isn't very useful.
 
no, i've never built anything that can beat that, bc i don't have that kind of money to play with
 
Your money and time would be better spend doing a "restifacation" of the Poncho.

That car is worth more as a mild street rod or potential resto ride.

Putting it on a 4x4 chassis would be a waste of time effort and money, it just wouldn't look good, no more so than a 56-57 Chevy would ( seen that and it's ugly )

Yep my opinion, worth everything you paid for it !
 
well i was just putting in my opinion, i don't like those type of cars, others do...everybody's got their own opinion. not trying to hikack the thread and turn it into an argument
 
xjsaretheway said:
i just don't like jap cars, i'm into GM american cars.that's what i'm into, not something 85% plastic with no character. dump as much money as they did into that hunk into a good old American muscle and it'll whoop that plastic butt while looking better too
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Uhh, no.
That car running the low 8s will spank the ever loving shit out of everything that ever rolled out of Detroit.
The fastest muscle car ever built would look like it was sitting still next to the Supra.
# YEAR/MODEL ET/MPH ENGINE HP TRANS GEAR SOURCE
1 1966 427 Cobra 12.20@118 427 8V 425 4-Speed 3.54 CC 11/65
2 1966 Corvette 427 12.8@112 L72 427 425 4-Speed 3.36 CD 11/65
3 1969 Road Runner 12.91@111.8 440 Six BBL 390 4-Speed 4.10 SS 6/69
4 1970 Hemi Cuda 13.10@107.12 426 Hemi 425 4-Speed 3.54 CC 11/69
5 1970 Chevelle SS454 13.12@107.01 454 LS6 450 4-Speed 3.55 CC 11/69
6 1969 Camaro 13.16@110.21 427 ZL1 430 4-Speed 4.10 HC 6/69
7 1968 Corvette 13.30@108 427 6V 435 4-Speed 3.70 HC 5/68
8 1970 Road Runner 13.34@107.5 426 Hemi 425 automatic 4.10 SS 12/69
9 1970 Buick GS Stage I 13.38@105.5 455 Stage I 360 automatic 3.64 MT 1/70
10 1968 Corvette 427 13.41@109.5 L72 427 425 4-Speed 3.55 CD 6/68
Sure you can build them to make those numbers, but its not easy.
I would do the work necessary to DD the hell out of that Supra.
 
Rich said:
You've obviously never seen the power curve on an american drag car that will run similar times. It's a purpose built drag car, it's not meant to be "usable"
Low 8's aren't that easy to do.. you can't just throw a BBC in anything and expect it to run those times.
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Well, you actually CAN throw a BBC in most any roadster chassis and run those timess all day long, and not have to work on it after every race. How much does that car weigh...2500lbs, maybe?
The BBC in my drag truck came out of a roadster that weighed a bit over 2k lbs, and it ran 5.20's in the 1/8 mile, which works out to very low 8's in the 1/4, and it's only a 427. My truck is quite heavy, so it only runs high 6's in there...of course, it's cammed for the lighter car and I did essentially zero tuning to get it faster.

You could easily buy one of the bigger inch "crate motors", say a 540 or so, slap it in most any Camaro race chassis and run right with that rice burner, MUCH more reliably, and a lot cheaper. Sorry, but it just doesn't take the horsepower that Supra has to run low 8's with an American V-8.

But whatever others like if fine with me...it's their money.
I'm not ragging on the Supra, just correcting mistakes. Personally, I don't care for the rice burners at all, but I can certainly appreciate the expertise it requires to make them run. BUT, the fact remains that you can run those same times with good old American iron for less money and more reliably. No arguing that fact.
 
that's stock.....what's the supra stock? pretty sure not low 8's

although i'm glad you threw in the 70 Buick GSX stage one....although the quite rare 70 GSX stage II ran a high 11 with some fat tires on the back in 70, and i've seen a slightly modigied one run 10.2, but not too many were made and they're super rare


that supra makes an impressive numbers, but i'd rather have a good old american car
 
uglyjeepoffroad said:
Uhh, no.
That car running the low 8s will spank the ever loving shit out of everything that ever rolled out of Detroit.
The fastest muscle car ever built would look like it was sitting still next to the Supra.
# YEAR/MODEL ET/MPH ENGINE HP TRANS GEAR SOURCE
1 1966 427 Cobra 12.20@118 427 8V 425 4-Speed 3.54 CC 11/65
2 1966 Corvette 427 12.8@112 L72 427 425 4-Speed 3.36 CD 11/65
3 1969 Road Runner 12.91@111.8 440 Six BBL 390 4-Speed 4.10 SS 6/69
4 1970 Hemi Cuda 13.10@107.12 426 Hemi 425 4-Speed 3.54 CC 11/69
5 1970 Chevelle SS454 13.12@107.01 454 LS6 450 4-Speed 3.55 CC 11/69
6 1969 Camaro 13.16@110.21 427 ZL1 430 4-Speed 4.10 HC 6/69
7 1968 Corvette 13.30@108 427 6V 435 4-Speed 3.70 HC 5/68
8 1970 Road Runner 13.34@107.5 426 Hemi 425 automatic 4.10 SS 12/69
9 1970 Buick GS Stage I 13.38@105.5 455 Stage I 360 automatic 3.64 MT 1/70
10 1968 Corvette 427 13.41@109.5 L72 427 425 4-Speed 3.55 CD 6/68
Sure you can build them to make those numbers, but its not easy.
I would do the work necessary to DD the hell out of that Supra.
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Obviously, you need to re-read the post you were responding to, because you evidently missed this:
"dump as much money as they did into that hunk into a good old American muscle"
 
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