318 build #2 "cost minded" for the '74 Duster

Ill try and put it another way . Why do people talk themselves and their car up on mathematically calculated 1/4 mile times when they never ran the car down the 1/4 mile. Why not be "honest" and report their 1/8 mile timeslip? For example, say "oh my car does blah blah blah in the 1/8..."
IDK. Report the 1/8 and know the 1/4 numbers in theory.
Just the opposite for 1/4 mile guys? Seems like to much crap to keep in the head. There was no 1-8 mile where I grew up.
All of the tracks were 1/4.