What are the best cars to start off with if your aiming to get to single digits?

 

They're called hayabusa's

Nate

 

way too many variables.

 

Then what is the fastest car non modded car that doesnt cost over $50,000?

 

Get urself an lt1 and swap a built ls1, turbo 400, and a rear in it, spray the **** out of it, get it too hook, and you got single digits easy! Or even easier, an old fox body coupe, with all the same stuff I just said, those ******* are light! And with an LS1 under the hood, the car will still be very streetable!

 

yeah what he said

 

I'd say go old school..... No sense in putting an LS1 in another heavy camaro when you can put one in a 63-66 Chevy II Nova..... Tub it, put an injected small block with nitrous, and make sure you take care of the front suspension and steering before you go whizzing down the 1/4 mile.... Or if you wanted to go real fast put a turbo sbc in it (like a 434 or sumthing of that nature) and launch into the stratosphere..... If the car looked like crap and you didn't care about it's looks you could probably do that type of car for about 30K....

5-6K for car, and 25K for engine/tranny/exhaust and everything else you'll need.....

 

Im thinking of getting a Pontiac Firebird. Should I try to get one of the newer ones, near 2000 or an older version

 

Hmmmmm... I would go here.... LINK

I bet they will be better at answering your questions....

 

Small block s10 ( n/a ) and you can go low 6's in the 1/8 mile.

Trust me

...........LBT

 

LSx in a Fox body mustang... Why not skip 9's and go 8's

 

Same lbt as on dfwstangs Didnt know you had a lsx motor

 

Yep; I was told this forum had a little of everything on it

It just a iron head carbed small block

.............LBT

 

This guy got it right.

FWIW, the late-model F-Body is one of the LAST platforms I'd chose to go extremely fast (8's or faster).

1.) 60's Nova or Chevy II
2.) 1st gen F-Body
3.) Fox body

Throw whatever motor you want in there, but I'd probably take a 500+ cube BBC over an LS1 for drag racing.

 

Ford T-Bucket!!!!

 

fox body lx with 5.0 auto.. gut the car.. it will weigh less than 3000 lbs. toss the 5.0 take a 351 from a bronco or f250 that you can find in a junkyard. put some forged stuff in it , good heads, big cam, 750 cfm+ carb, maybe even stroke it. Take a 9" from about any 70s truck or an 8.8 from something newer like an explorer.. limited slip if it doesnt have it, stronger axles. Youll need a tranny.. have the c4 that came with the car built. BIG STALL. NITROUS. 10.5 in SLICKS, some suspension goodies. DONE...

oh wait you wanted 10's, use a smaller nitrous hit.

 

i picked up my second charger for $3000 it was some one elses race car, he got bored with it so his loss is my gain. i will have less than 8k in the car and i should be comfortably in the 8's thanks to ebay and some junk yard parts.

 

More like ZX-14's
Fastest factory bike in the world as of right now.

 

Fox bodys are quick and easy cars to mod for the money...


I got mine for 1800 bucks put gears in it a 80mm mass 24lbs injectorsand a off road x pipe and a 125 shot..Now mind you this is a completly stock motor no engine work at all and i got everything used grand total of car is 2500 bucks and i went 12.60 already on street tires,drag radials would have got me a low 12 very easy....Its 3300lbs with me in it has the stock aod trans with 161xxx miles on it.imo best bang for the buck car out there.....Stock short block will take you very deep into the 10s....