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Old Apr 29, 2014 | 10:09 PM
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Default Big-Block Smart Car Heads Down the Strip



The 'Busa motor is a relatively common swap on the smart car. But a big block?

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Said it runs 13s...what a turd...LOL

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Old Apr 29, 2014 | 10:53 PM
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LOL. Id go slow to if I was sitting right next to a grenade. It would weigh 4000lbs id have so much scatter shield around everything. God Bless Merica.
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I always say, if it don't run good......it better look good. They have failed at both. What a waist.
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I'm curious how much the spent to make that thing...
At 13 seconds my poor little 92 mustang could almost keep up as it is.
You would think that with putting a big block in something like that they would shoot for more than just 10s?
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I always say, if it don't run good......it better look good. They have failed at both. What a waist.
Not really a fair statement, I don't think it's possible to make a Smart car look good...... And if it only ran a 13, my guess is if they had given it all it had, it would have ran down the track like a bottle rocket on the ground with no stick, all over the place!
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Originally Posted by ls1nova71
Not really a fair statement, I don't think it's possible to make a Smart car look good...... And if it only ran a 13, my guess is if they had given it all it had, it would have ran down the track like a bottle rocket on the ground with no stick, all over the place!
My point exactly........"what a waist".
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