[Jim Kaekel]

I've seen them run at US-131. Pretty cool to see and you see the full gamut from real stock muscle cars that run 13-15 seconds to "stock-appearing" cars that run in the tens. The one thing that I thought was kind of crazy was the idea of running low tens @ 130 MPH on a stock, bias ply tire that was referred to as "shaved" or simply, a bald tire. There were only a couple of cars running 10-11 second E.T's and I guarantee that they had every bit of the "investment" of a competitive stock or super stock car. Although they have stock intake and exhaust manifolds, big rollers, 500+ cubes and 14-15:1 compression are the norm.