[Dave Bisschop]

Originally Posted by PAUL K

I assume this is a rhetorical question since you seemed to answer this in the last sentence of your paragraph above.

Not rhetorical at all as I stated the combo's are much less street friendly in comparison. What are good street manners? Ask 10 different people you'll probably get 10 different answers. Car set up is a HUGE factor on track performance. I had a customer (unfortunately passed away last fall) who raced a 77 bird in stock eliminator with a legal 350 Pontiac, stock heads (no porting at all) stock intake (no mods) less than 9 to 1 compression, stock .364" lift cam and the car ran a best of 11.27 @ 117mph 3500ish lbs, what do you think would happen if you put that engine in a typical street car? It would no doubt run way slower. The car was dialed in.

By your statement about people spending a lot of money and getting average results basically says that you feel I don't give people good value for their money. I take that personally as I've dedicated my life to the Pontiac Performance hobby and I'm certainly not getting rich doing what I do but I enjoy it and its my hobby too and the customer feedback I get keeps me motivated to do it till the day I die. My motto from day one was to provide my customers with proven products that do what they are supposed to do in the most cost effective way I can find and not require a whole bunch of tuning etc. to get respectable performance out of their cars. This is a never ending pursuit.

I feel some of the statements that have been made are misleading, I really doubt ta man is going to go faster bolting on a set of ported iron heads and a sliding in a flat tappet hyd. cam with everything else in his combo staying the same and running on 87 octane.