Fastest street car??

67Dart273 said
"Street car." I always have to take that with a ton sized grain of salt.

If you want to know if your "street" car is actually legal, drive up to some state cop and tell him "I think you're an asshole" and let the inspection begin.

And on later cars, you MUST have all federal and state smog equipment, even though there's nobody to enforce that, unless you are in an area of some states which DO enforce and inspect for emissions.

And slicks on the street, or so called "DOT" that "ain't" makes it a street car NOT

But I'm willing to pass on the smog gear, but it's got to be "streetable" IE you have to be able to idle in traffic, have ALL required safety equipment including all windows, signals, lights, horn, wipers, etc, be able to negotiate a "normal" highway with actual corners n' stuff

Seems to me some of this stuff is REALLY pushing the limits, if not more than the tires alone.

Yup, I say in order to be a street car it must have:

Tags,
Title,
insurance,
actual street tires, (no slicks, no drag radials, something you'd actually drive in the rain.)
Pump gas or e85 (none of this Drive on 87, race on C16 crap)
Stock chassis, No clip cars, no backhalfed cars
full factory glass
Lights, mirrors, All of the interior, carpet, headliner, all the seats, etc.
Heat, a/c (optional but preferred) Radio, courtesy lights,
None of these jungle gym rollcages,
No enormous tubs
You shouldn't need tools to race it.
It should start happily when it's cold, and idle happily when it's hot.

And finally, it's not a requirement in my book, but a street car really oughtta race in the exact same state of tune it's driven to the track in. I'd love to see at drag week or something similar, them put tape across the car's hood gaps, and on the links of the suspension on the cars, and if the tape gets broken, they're DQ'd You'd see a lot fewer quick cars if they're not allowed to mess with them between races and between passes.

Y'know, really, getting to think about it, that's really what makes a race car, isn't it? The constant adjusting to get every last hundredth of a thousandth of a second. Tweaking with every trick known to an experienced racer with umpteen years experience. As opposed to a street car where all the tinkering goes on in the garage, then the tools get put away, and the car gets driven.