Not only hideously cartoonish looking, stance cars must handle like absolute dog doodoo because you are driving on half of the tire or less.

I’ve only done 1/4 mile drag racing and it is a blast, especially when family and friends have high performance modified cars. I would love to try road racing or autoX.

It was a built 360, 13.5-1 compression, big cam, ported heads, single plane intake, 3600rpm stall converter, built 727 trans w manual valve body, 4:56 rear diff 8 3/4 rear. It was in a lightweight 1972 Plymouth Duster. I had several friends with built big block chevelles, chargers, 442, challengers back then and it did well. I was going broke buying racing gas though. Two of my friends regularly drove their narrowed rear end, parachute/wheelie bar cars on the street. They both could do wheelies. lol

Keep your stability/traction on when driving in slippery conditions and you should be fine. My first car when I was 16 was a heavily modded 500hp muscle car, back in the early 80’s. I drove that year round in WI. I’ve owned nothing but high hp rwd performance cars ever since.

Just use good judgement and if you can, find a large deserted parking lot(after store hours) and practice car control in the rain or snow. It’s a safe way to find out how a car feels when it’s about to break traction and if it does, how to correct without over correcting. Just make sure the lot is s deserted and d there aren’t a lot of light poles.

I’ve seen folks trying to show off in lots and drift right into poles.

Absolutely not. My brother just picked up a 2024 m240i xdrive and it’s an all around great performance car, especially its price point. Pretty hard to find anything comparable in the $50’sK range that’s awd with a backseat(albeit tiny lol).

You won’t really hurt your engine since your ecu will adjust timing etc for the lower octane, why buy a high performance car if your going to neuter some of the performance with lower octane fuel? There may be additional additives/detergents in premium vs regular, or at least that used to be the case.

Heck I even put premium gas (for the additives), in my lawnmower and snowblower, and both are over 30yrs old. They still run as well as the day I bought them.

I’m a gm and molar guy and I remember how helpful LS1Tech, LSQ.com and corvette forum were instructing my Camaro and corvette builds. LX forum and challenger talk were also very helpful with mopar related builds and tech. There were a lot of really knowledgeable folks on those forums back in the day, including some of the very best speed shops and builders in the country.