Danspeed1 wrote:

I only wish I had the guts to give it a try ONCE MORE. Like I said, on the last car, I just accumulated parts. But throughout my accumulation I felt confident that "some-day" I would have a car that put some power down. On occasions that I cut corners with my past vehicles it always seemed to lead to more expense in the future. My Beautiful Chevelle for example; I purchased a set of Ebay rotors, later to find that the studs had not been hardened. The wheel sheared off at 30MPH, and that was the demise of my Chevelle. I have never had such "hot rodders" luck.

But for a lot of duck tape junkies it works out well. I shake my head at those. Like I said... Guys putting 400HP cars together for under $1000. I always wondered if it was a lie, or they were trying to down play their cars. But after becoming friendly with these guys I realized they just had incredible skill, and even more incredible luck.

MY POINT: I understand these people get lucky and I can tell you all for sure I am not one of them. I am having problems with my Impala's rear after spending $2K on it. But at the same time, you read a lot about people using $1000 forged cranks for 400HP engines... it's just not practical.

If you step over to some of the other forums today.... alot of the Camaro guys and Trans AM guys are pushing out a lot of power on stock bottoms without failure. They don't have as much to spend as people on the Vette sites. I think sometimes this stuff is overkill.

DG