Why are people scared of the drag strip?

Okay so your new car, your new Slant six are you scared you're going to break something expensive?
Let's start with my first friend. An ASE Certified mechanic he put the LT1 in his lowrider. Now he was willing to go. Who really rather wait till he put his big motor in...
Another one just had a new motor and it's all broken and I rebuild the turbo 350 and we totally went through everything actually. That car I totally know would not be hurt by a few quarter mile passes. It probably only get up to about 90 miles an hour anyways which it should cruise at on the freeway....
The last guy has brother had the older Pontiac LeMans and already cut a hole in the head in anticipation for his blower motor. And that's when I'm supposed to see him at the track when he had something that he'll put into the wall with too much horsepower LOL...

I don't know about that guy or any other, but I'll tell you about ME and THIS particular situation.

I'm not building my car to blast......or slug down the strip. Though, it might happen. I AM going to build a pretty nasty N/A slant six complete with a solid roller camshaft and camshaft gear drive. So that also means to USE that camshaft, I'll need a nasty ported cylinder head with bigger valves. In other words, a lot of money spent......for ME. Honestly, the intent is to be a 100% street car. I just want to do the cam and gear drive to be "different". I don't want to break anything. Nobody "wants" to I guess, but some people are in better situations to recover. All I would do is remove the carnage and reinstall my 170 and keep on truckin. lol