Quote Originally Posted by SMOKENU
I know crafty personally and he is a cool guy. Who knows what's done to who's car. NOBODY knows. Everyone lies about what's done to their cars to either make them really fast and they're not or make them seem really slow and they are really fast. I don't know exactly what is done to crafty's car but I do know that it is not slow. I saw it run at dallas and it did not run bad at all. I'm not going to say what it ran, he can if he wants to. As far as john goes (v10slowboy) I met as well and he is a nice guy and is not cocky at all about his car. My car will be up and running soon and I can run some of these 9 second imports that all the people talk about on here. Crafty's car is a camaro and I love camaros. So don't hate on them. Ever since I was 16 I have always had a f-body. Also it's a lot harder to get a 9sec car down the track than to get a 200hp car through some turns. If anyone is wondering how it would feel to be in a 9sec car go to your moutain runs and fight the car through the turns. Thats how it feels trying to get a 9 sec car to stay straight in the quarter. That's an easy example to tell most peolpe on here have never been in a 9 sec car. Also John v10slowboy looking foward to running the viper. I had a little bad luck with a head gasket but it will be back up and running in mid january. BTW My car is slow .
haha, oddly enough the fastest thing I've ridden in is a 10 second '69 Camaro. But I don't understand why it would be hard to control a high powered car from a launch, considering your objective is to hook up and not spin. I could see it being very hard to control if you constantly loosing traction, but a good driver is going to be modulating the throttle to keep the car from doing so.

As for my mountain runs, I'd imagine it'd be a lot scarier for one of you guys than it is me simply due to the fact that you'll be accelerating faster, having to brake earlier and having to constantly modulate the throttle mid corner to keep the car from going sideways. One of the benefits on the Corolla's light weight /low power combination is I can continue accelerating hard into the corner, after the people I'm running with have had to back off to keep from spinning.

It'd be pretty cool if we could organize a mountain run with a nice diversity of cars (Import and Domestic) sometime in the near future. It'd be great to see some Vipers tearing up the mountains.