Do these magazines inflate their HP and torque

i went from a 13.40 to a 11.90 from throwing a B&M converter in the trash and having a thousand $ ATI built with the correct 4000 flash for my cam. It's all about the setup as the above gentlemen have stated. i also found 2 tenths from doing a battery relocation and replacing the stock gas tank with a fuel cell. its amazing what weight transfer can do.

you also have to take into account that alot of those magazine cars (and not all of them, not meaning to offend anyone) are trailer queens and show cars. not everyone is using 5000 flash converters and 4.10 gears. so these 600 horse show cars with A/C and stereos and all that jazz would literally get walked by my little street/strip dart with 380 crank horse that ran the above times. so i don't believe the numbers are fudged...just not everyone is taking off wiper motors and carpet padding like some of us and building a "street legal...ish" lol drag car.