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Message: <blockquote data-quote="r3dn3ck" data-source="post: 280182" data-attributes="member: 9214">Yep. You can do it and have it be a streetable (barely) car. It's going to be expensive to get the level of working to the heads and block that needs to be done and the cams will be on the radical side but it'll tear up the tarmac. Don't forget you're going to be looking at a 8000rpm engine. The bottom end will lose something but you'll need 4.30 gears anyway so it evens out. The car will be brutally fast. I'd expect to knock down high-10's to mid-11's if you can drive it to them. Al Papito does 9's on a full race combo.Torque has to be respected. It's 1000000x easier to spin out now than it was and it takes some practice not to bark the tires at ever stop light. All hope of being subtle is lost with the 5.4. On the upside it pulls as hard at 5500rpm as it does at 1500rpm and gets 22-24mpg on the highway.you can run a high 12 on an 87 octane tuned 5.4 2v with stock headers and adapter plates. ANY bolt-on only makes things better. It's traction that's the issue. Drag radials are a really good idea for the track.</blockquote>