How fast does a "racecar" styled street car have to before it's not considered a poser? I'm talking gasser/altered/bada**hotrod street driven vehicles here. Larry T
Anything that looks "traditional" and runs high 10s would be enough fun to put a stain in someone's shorts... Modern car? These days it's 9s or better to open.
If you actually have what the decals say you are not a complete poser. If you installed it yourself, not a poser at all. If it still don't run, don't worry. You'll get it right eventually if you ask enough questions. Hotrodding doesn't necessarily mean fast all the time. Its the trip thats important. The getting there is whoaaaaa
Yea, I was thinking all throttle/no bottle deal. I used to race with a guy that now has a Mustang that he put a Duramax diesel in. Drove it to the Hot Rod drags (over 1000 miles), got over 30 mpg and ran low 10s/high 9s with it. But that's a whole different ball of wax. For me. 12's is real respectable for an old hotrod, but I was just wondering what everyone else thought. Larry T Squirrel, You've got a point. And the et to be respectable is "Just a little quicker than it's ever gone before."
but what if you run it on the strip and then have your picture taken with it later? Isn't that posing?
Anything that looks like a gasser needs to be in the 9's. .....or else it deserves to catch the same amount of crap that 13 second pro-street cars catch. A normal looking hot rod that runs 12's or 13's is perfectly acceptable (and fun).
in reverse? I agree that anything in the 12's is "real". Back in the day that was damn quick and anything in the 15's was better than stock. A naturally aspirated small block in a Willys should run 16's, so that blown bigblock needs a bit of tuning. But who cares, as long as you are having fun and trying to discover ways to go quicker. Starting out in the 16's with a blown bigblock gives you lots of room for improvement
If it made a spectacular explosion 100 ft out, then coasted to a 16.... Seriously, if it's out there running, then it's not a poser. Respectable performance is a different question. It would take some effort to get a blown big block willys to run that slow. My blown big block 55 runs 11s, and it's damn heavy.
Who cares? If its fast too you and your happy I wouldn't call you a poser. Most guys that THINK there car is a 12 second car its most ofter a 14 or 15 second car. I'm I a poser because my blown alcohol car runs in the 6's and not the 5's like a top alcohol car?????
If you are running 16's in a blown big block willys, you are wasting somebody elses valuable track time. On the other hand, you could be giving folks time to go take a piss break without missing anything.
That's no shit...every guy thinks his car is at least 3 seconds faster than it really is. The only way to find out if you are a man or a poser, is to DRIVE your hot rod to the HAMB Drags in August and make a pass. 12s, 14s or 16s, it doesn't matter. If you have the stones to make the trip and drop the hammer at the last yellow, what more can you ask?? See ya, -Abone.
I figure if you are not going to race it it does not matter how fast it is. I had a straight axle 56 Bel Air. 327, 4-speed, no front bumper, roll bar, fenderwell headers, ladder bars, tach on the dash.. all the cool stuff. had a big cam and sounded really cool. prolly ran 15's. never had it at the track, never even street raced it. just a car built in a style I thought was cool.
if it is fast enough to make the OWNER happy and he or she is humble = not a prick I say to each his own! I have had really fast cars that didnt make me happy(thought they should be faster for the money invested) and cheap cars that ran respectable and i always will take the car that does more for less!! It drives me nuts when you see people kiss the butt of a total prick just cause they have a fast car! sorry if o.t.
oldsman71 I agree I like it when people come up and ask about my cars. I'm more than happy to share what motor combination I'm running especially the younger crowd because I know alot of them are just getting into it. I built and ran my first blown alcohol car at 19 and I couldn't believe how many dickheads were rude to me because they thought i was a young punk! All the good guys made up for it though.sorry alittle OT
The original question was not if a poser can be happy. The way I see it, the question was related to at what E.T. does a car become a legitimate drag car (or at least worthy of having the stance and key components). I am in no way bashing guys who do the best with the parts they have. What I am bashing is blown big blocks that under-driven 50%.
nothing like the smell of a alcohol burning car, except maybe when the fumes get in yer eyes! IT is cool for you to encourage those who ask about yer car they may be future alky racers cjc/om71
I think a pure "not street driven" race car is way off point. I think the chest thumping street car guys are where this is aimed. word!
thats very cool I agree that without the younger guys we might as well smash all the ''old cars'' and pull a taproot on the whole damn hobby........ no autoshop class can make up for a little hospitality WE MUST ALWAYS ENCOURAGE THE YOUTH
If you run low 12's/high 11's in street trim you'll beat 99% of the junk that runs around Central Texas. Very few people from what i've seen are driving 12 second or faster cars. If they're faster, you never see them on the street in traffic. To your original question... if you're building a race car look-a-like... I think it would be respectable to get it to perform like the race car you're duplicating (close to it at least), or styling it after. If you're duplicating an original hotrod with a banger motor in it... well it ain't going to run 12's. You're still not posing though... it's representative of that style race car. If you pull up next to me in a VW powered porsche 356 kitcar and I blow your doors off with my ragged out F150 (happened last week)... that's not respectable and doesn't represent what that guy was going after. See what I mean? I don't. lol... Who the hell keeps posting these questions?
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