Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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68 dodge coronet 30,000 original mile car, big motor(n/a), super stock springs and pinion snubber.
Take that thing on DragWeek! Too me anything running 11s or quicker is a fast street car.Then you have people like LarryLarson,Eddie,Ev Bernado etc. best of [Email]10.47@129[/Email] at around 2 tons. no bar, no electric pump,4.10 gear, dot radials,full exhaust to the bumper. only thing better would be if it was column shifted
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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We all have our definitions of a street car. I like my setup and I REGULARLY drive it on the street to go food shopping, Home Depot, the Mall, visit friends, take my family to the park for a picnic, drive to the Mopar Nats and back......... To me that is a true street car,...one you drive regularly to places, other than the local car cruise and back.
I totally think that all cool street driven vehicles have a place and I respect them all. Way cool to have a rollcaged 8 second car that you drive long distances. It's also super cool to have a high 12 second car with full interior that you drive all over the place too.
Love em all!
have you raced your car with the 4 speed yet?
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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Whatever you can tolerate to drive, is a "street" car. Some may not like it, or him, but Eddie drives that Duster 1,000 miles during Drag Week, beats on it at the track, it goes 7s. Anything you can drive 1,000 miles, is definitely a Street Car. You could not positively gaurantee your everyday driver would go a 1,000 miles without incident, so that is not a legit argument. My GTX was a low 8 sec car and saw plenty of street duty. Some claim a streeter must have air, ps, pb and a bunch of other stuff, my Challenger had none of that when new, so why does it need it now to be considered a street car.
Monte
Monte, you forgot about the nightly rebuilds it took to keep Eddie's junk running.
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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Whatever you can tolerate to drive, is a "street" car. Some may not like it, or him, but Eddie drives that Duster 1,000 miles during Drag Week, beats on it at the track, it goes 7s. Anything you can drive 1,000 miles, is definitely a Street Car. You could not positively gaurantee your everyday driver would go a 1,000 miles without incident, so that is not a legit argument. My GTX was a low 8 sec car and saw plenty of street duty. Some claim a streeter must have air, ps, pb and a bunch of other stuff, my Challenger had none of that when new, so why does it need it now to be considered a street car.
Monte
Monte, you forgot about the nightly rebuilds it took to keep Eddie's junk running.
I knew someone would bring that up. That turned out to be a cooling issue that let the motor run hot, thin the oil and basically beat the lifters out of it. Look, I am not the biggest Eddie fan, nor am I defending him, but his junk is fast and streetable. I don't expect the cooling issues this year, that he had last year. Eddie aside, what about the guy that won it, Larry Larson. He rarely had the hood up, never changed tires and has since ran in the low 7s and will probably run 6s with a killer tune.
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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What is a street car, Hummm If you drive it somewhere and are afraid to park it and leave it for a while its not a street car, like at the movies if ya gota go out and check it every 10 min or...... your just paranoid
What does that have to do with streetability? The question wasn't asking about parking lotability!
Well Dave, how many times did you leave your duster alone in a parking lot for a few hrs?
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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Whatever you can tolerate to drive, is a "street" car. Some may not like it, or him, but Eddie drives that Duster 1,000 miles during Drag Week, beats on it at the track, it goes 7s. Anything you can drive 1,000 miles, is definitely a Street Car. You could not positively gaurantee your everyday driver would go a 1,000 miles without incident, so that is not a legit argument. My GTX was a low 8 sec car and saw plenty of street duty. Some claim a streeter must have air, ps, pb and a bunch of other stuff, my Challenger had none of that when new, so why does it need it now to be considered a street car.
Monte
Monte, you forgot about the nightly rebuilds it took to keep Eddie's junk running.
I knew someone would bring that up. That turned out to be a cooling issue that let the motor run hot, thin the oil and basically beat the lifters out of it. Look, I am not the biggest Eddie fan, nor am I defending him, but his junk is fast and streetable. I don't expect the cooling issues this year, that he had last year. Eddie aside, what about the guy that won it, Larry Larson. He rarely had the hood up, never changed tires and has since ran in the low 7s and will probably run 6s with a killer tune.
Monte
Larry drove his old combo 555 12-71 when the streets were wet and snow on the ground. His and a few others are at the extreme end of street cars for sure.Still neat to see Larry drive a 100 miles,stage go low 8s high 7s and then drive out the back gate home. -- short hijack:Monte you going to any of the DW venues in Sept?
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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Mines not a rocket, but it runs low 11 thru the mufflers. In current trim its gone 11.17@121 just as it drives on the street. I run slicks at most track events for consistancy. I notice I'm one of the few cars in pro at the Classic events that has mufflers and current plates. Doug
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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Why would a "cage" "rollbar" whatever you want to call it, be unsafe on the street?? Funny car cage? yeah I can see that bieng a blind spot,maybe never drove a ca with one in it, but I had a Duser with an 8:71 blower up and out of the hood, cops never batted an eye, sat at a stoplight with one sitting right next to me, the cop just looked at me and smiled . I think that if you look at some of the cars that are running around on the roads with saran wrap, rust, bungi cords for door handles??? Come on the guys that run really fast, or not so fast, know every nut and bolt on thier cars. Drive it and enjoy the ride
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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I've been 10.15 at 134 honing the tires through 1st gear, it'll go 9.90's in a couple weeks with new shocks and tires. I'd drive it more often if I wasn't so darn worried about chewing up the tires, high fuel prices, and general wear and tear on parts. I usually hit local car shows and take the family to get ice cream. I don't consider it a super streetable package although it does drive nice on the street. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcKV5j1pG-0
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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Whatever you can tolerate to drive, is a "street" car. Some may not like it, or him, but Eddie drives that Duster 1,000 miles during Drag Week, beats on it at the track, it goes 7s. Anything you can drive 1,000 miles, is definitely a Street Car. You could not positively gaurantee your everyday driver would go a 1,000 miles without incident, so that is not a legit argument. My GTX was a low 8 sec car and saw plenty of street duty. Some claim a streeter must have air, ps, pb and a bunch of other stuff, my Challenger had none of that when new, so why does it need it now to be considered a street car.
Monte
Monte, you forgot about the nightly rebuilds it took to keep Eddie's junk running.
I knew someone would bring that up. That turned out to be a cooling issue that let the motor run hot, thin the oil and basically beat the lifters out of it. Look, I am not the biggest Eddie fan, nor am I defending him, but his junk is fast and streetable. I don't expect the cooling issues this year, that he had last year. Eddie aside, what about the guy that won it, Larry Larson. He rarely had the hood up, never changed tires and has since ran in the low 7s and will probably run 6s with a killer tune.
Monte
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Re: What classifies a "fast" street car??
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The term "street car" has become meaningless. There is no authoritative definition and pretty much any car can be claimed to be a street car. The term has become an excuse for those people who feel the need to justify why their car isn't the fastest one on the block. Because car-A is slower than car-B the owner of car-A explains that his is a "street car" and therefore should not be expected to be as fast as car-B. This reasoning fails because the owner of car-B invariably claims that his is also a street car and that the owner of car-A is just jealous. At the end of the day only one fact is known to be true.... car-A is slower than car-B !!!
There is no point in excusing the performance of your car by claiming it's a street car. Likewise, there is no point in denigrating the performance of someone else's car by claiming it's not a street car, as a way of apologizing for why your car is not as fast. Simply accept that your car is not as fast and that the other guy made compromises that you weren't willing to.
Why even waste your breath claiming what should be an obvious assumption.... so your car is a street car, well so is mine and so is his and so is hers.... they're all street cars and you can't prove otherwise.... so what? It's all opinion and everyone has one of those too.
This reply is not directed at anyone or any car in particular; it is simply my opinion regarding the term "street car".
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