Originally Posted by Illegal Machine
I just don't want mrphotoman's wack exaggerations to cloud the point here.
I'm just saying a car is only as fast as the person driving it. If someone can't drive an SRT-6 with a pulley, intake and tune into the 12's, I just can't bring myself to say it's the car's fault.
And no WAY am I going to generalize and say ALL SRT-6's are slow because of it.
If you have a modded SRT-6, and it's not running 12's there is something wrong. If you show me a slip showing a 13 second pass, I don't care. That's a 12 second car with a serious mechanical issue, or a terrible driver in the driver seat.
That just seems like common sense to me.
If we're talking about hypothetical races on the internet, you just look at the two cars, assess the mods and (based on other cars with similar mods) take an educated guess at who will win. You don't assume the RWD driver can launch, and you don't assume the FWD driver is going to spin through 2nd gear. Just take the cars in a vacuum.
Not only drivers factor into the car's best potential but DA. Once my DA hit's it's peak this summer usually around 5500' my 11.89 will likely become a 12.89. Not because of all the mods, driver, or mechanical issues but because of the air density. I don't argue if you don't know how to launch this car then you will be with alot of E55 drivers and have over 600hp and never see 11's.