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Originally Posted by GregWeld
To this date - when I read on here some of the staggering HP/TQ numbers that people either want to, or are, putting into their cars I shudder. I just hope they have ANY clue how much power some of these numbers are.
I hear people tell others - oh it's a 600hp 350... and you know damn good and well it's nowhere near that - and that it's never been dyno'd. It's more like 400Hp and puts 320 to the wheels.... you just hope they never get behind the wheel of an honest 600+ hp car!! OMG!
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Greg, I've felt the same way for a long, long time. There was a period of time for me, when I spent a lot of time over on LS1Tech, and some of those guys and gals over there would put together extreme high end twin turbo builds that would easily reach 4 digits on a dyno, and I always said to my self "man I hope that guy has REAL experience behind the wheel of a high horsepower vehicle, cause this can get real bad, real quick!"
I had a close family friend die in a new mustang gt in 1991, because the thing got away from him. Those cars had like what, 275ish HP? I'm definitely not advocating that auto manufacturers begin to go the other way performance wise, but cars and trucks of this nature are downright dangerous in the wrong hands. Thankfully, automakers build these vehicles much safer than ever before.