This is true, even the Impala SS, a big car, but with the right mod's will put to rest a Corvette and will do sub 10 second 1/4 times.
It's a great feeling to watch someone in a corvette drop there head in shame when a 5,800 pound 4 door pulls out and leaves them in the dust. I great sleeper, people have know idea you have 800hp available.
A 5800 lb car?? Are you talking about a Ryder truck or something??
You're waaaaay off there buddy. Impala's don't weigh anywhere near that much. Off the top of my head the new vettes weigh in around 3200 - 3300lbs, and the Impala is slightly heavier IF it is. Not to mention the new C6 Vette is easily put into the 11's with just a head porting job and some tuning....that's it. For an Impala to do sub 10sec 1/4 requires ALOT more then you think buddy. I don't care who told you what or what you think you read somewhere. Those 2 statements right there tell me you don't know much about draggin down the 1/4 mile. Sorry, but it's true.
First of all a 5,800 lb car??, which there isn't one that exists by the way, the closest I can think of is a 1957 Nomad Wagon or old boat like that. It still don't weigh over 5,000lbs.
So many people blowing stories out their rears without the real knowledge on hand.
Like Brown said, you want really incredible horsepower?? Grab a V-8, hell even a newer BBC (Big Block Chevy) with over 500hp is going to scare the crap out of 99% of these people who have never driven a car that fast before. If you're looking for an 800hp car whether it be turbo or supercharged, #1. It's not going to be very easily street driven, and #2. You better have a TON of cash to spend on
A) Building it (not only the engine)
B) Keeping it tuned (or risk detonation) = bye bye lotsa $$
C) Gas, cuz the more power it makes, the way more gas it needs. If you think 800hp comes with over 10mpg, you better think again.
A twin turbo V8 will eat ALL of those little cute imports up with their fart cannons, but it will cost you alot to build. I know, because I was pricing a motor out to build one for my '78 z28 I restored.
You want cheap easy HP , buy a Big Block, and throw a nice fogger nitrous setup on it. That's the cheapest way to do it. Depends on your application and what your final goal is for the car.
Getting a car fine tuned to handle big HP is not as easy as you think if you don't know dik about engines. It costs ALOT of money, and alot of maintenance and tuning is required non-stop. I'll lay odds that most of those ricer boys have blown more trans missions and drivelines by installing a bigger turbo. Just so you know torque is what gets a car moving off the line, not HP. it's also what kills a transmission if it's not built to handle that power. Driveshafts come up through the floorboards alot killing people because they forget to upgrade their yokes and u-joints also and when that power hits it shatters them sending them spinning like wild banshees through the floorboards.
That's why unless it's an AWD (like an EVO) they don't stand a chance off the line against a powerful V8...period. A rolling start is what they need.
Out of the box, I'd tell you grab a newer EVO or WRX sti if you want incredible out of the box. Even a stock Neon SRT-4 is puttin in the high 13's out of the box. That's impressive.
OR Grab a newer 4th gen TA or SS with an LS1 and 350hp....(yes GM underrated them) These were the same engines in Corvettes during those years. Slap a supercharger on them and you'll be pushin over 500Hp with a respectable amount of boost, and you'll kill 90% of the cute imports out there that think they are fast because they have fart cannons and watched fast and the furious twenty times.
Hell.....STOCK I'd say you'll kill more then half of them. Most these kids don't know WTF they're doing and they're killin those little hamster engines quickly. Sorry, I'm biased, I prefer American over Ricer anyday. I can't stand those shopping cart wings. Just my .02
For 1/4 mile racing, nothing will beat a V8 modified in the same way those little fart pipers do. The only advantage they have is if it was a street race going around city blocks (turning corners)
