You are definitely one of those guys haha. Tell me buddy, how deep in the 9s are you on your downpipe and intake with a tune you had to have someone else make? Or since you apparently don’t know how to launch, how deep in the 3s are you for a 60-130?

Brother, I own two of em. First tops out at 42 in my Mustang at 7.5k with a 3.15 with a big tire. My F150 barely kisses 30.

Tell me again how smart you think you are lol

Drag racing is highly focused on the balance between power and traction. A car with 1500hp and slicks that can barely hook at 50 may put up a low 3s 60-130, but won’t 60’ for shit. Look at the Model S Plaid. It can run a fantastic time for a street car, but doesn’t have enough weight transfer to run 8s, despite having the power.

As for gearing, look at any 10R80/10L90 car. 1st is useless if you have more than 400hp, regardless of rear gear.

Cars set up to perform well in one specific test don’t match up when driven on the roads the average driver takes every day?

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Budget V8: Gen iv/v SBC truck engines. Grab any of them out of a yard, throw it into a classic muscle car with headers, car intake, and tiny cam, and you’ve got 400-500hp with the same torque the old engine had. And it uses half the fuel.

Gucci V8: tricked up aluminum 416 or larger Gen iv/v SBC. 500ft/lbs, 550+hp, 6500+rpm, light weight.

If you’re into cool engineering: Gen 3 Coyote. 8k rpm with just a set of oil pump gears, stock internals can take about 1200hp reliably, and also 8k rpm. The fueling tricks you can do are pretty sweet, as well.

Basic turbo 4: Ecoboost 2.0. A couple basic mods will get you to a healthy 350hp, and you can still justify that in a DD.