True Bracket Car vs True Street Car....

318willrun said

But more or less, I see the dedicated bracket racers on this site look at a street car ET (anyone's car), and say "you could drop XX if you get your 60 ft down". Seems bracket racers have more of that for an answer. For instance, my 318 Duster did high 14's at just about 95 mph and instantly the 2.2 60 ft was the topic. I'm asking is it hard for them to "think" with 2.76 gears, stock converter, and a 318 in a full weight car that it's probably not going to push better without the help of a converter and gears - which is moving towards "bracket racing" set up. LOL... Maybe I'm just being confusing and not making sense.. :D :D Could be... I don't know

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No your right, the mindset of long time brkt racers have in their mind certain 60's that go with an ET/mph and judge things in that manner, I do as well. A street guy just looks at the ET generally, 60 and mph is not of such importance, but they are the things that tell you how good a set up you have and how much power your making. Most of us have gone through the street set up and moved on to more of a race set up with the learning curve that brings.
To give an example, my 340 car was street/strip when I bought it, hdrs/cam/intake/carb, stock 3.55's, a B&M S-holeshot (3500) and I drove it to the track/exhausts off and 26" slicks on, and then home. Car ran what your running (pre heads) with 2.76's etc. etc...in the 13.3's@3550lbs, it was still true street for me. In went an SFT cam, a 4200stall, 4.30's and 28's a bigger carb/race hdrs for the track, was still streetable apart from back then there were no 28>30" street tyres and highway stuff was not good rpm wise so it became 95% track only. But those mods on gear/converter gained me 4/10ths alone, the rest (.5 sec) was down to the extra hp, best 12.39@108. So there you have it, unless you've been there and done that and got the t-shirt your gonna get those type responses as its in the mind of most as the way forward. Also we don't use 2 gears down the track with a 904/727.