Well my 2 cents.
I think some of the people here should not bash his power numbers. I think a bunch of us have seen the videos of his dyno pulls before. The car makes serious power. Now 200mph is a serious number. It's not just 50mph from 150, it's a whole different planet. The fastest I have ever gone was 175 in a modified Datsun Scarab. The difference between 150 and 175 was incredible. It's not just 25 mph, it's the difference x 10. The car that we were piloting was a highly modified car in it's day. This was 15 years ago. The amount of suspension work frame work and body work that had to be done to go 175 was 10 times more extensive then it is to go 150 mph. I went 145-150 many times while racing the first gen rx-7's and we had to really get the car down, and get the suspension down to make sure we didn't have tail or front end lift. Nitro, I think you have the power to do it, but you may not have the car. It takes a lot of prep on the suspension side to get that down, including many under body mods to get it from lifting. Like Charlie said, Big Red is a nascar chassis covered by a 69 camaro. It was built and designed to go 220mph. Your car is not. I think you would end up killing yourself if you tried to get that car to 200 mph right now. First off you should research the air drag on the car, and or if you can, take the car someplace to get the coefficient of drag and see what that tells you. For all we know your car may fly at 165 or it may just stick on the ground. Who knows but do you really want to be the crash test person at those speeds? Also you should have a nascar style cage to stiffen it up and protect you. If I was you and had a real bug for this, I would just build a car that did this very thing.
Also if you have family or kids, you should consider them before doing a stunt like this.
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