Cato, I hit 135 in my ’68 Dodge Charger. I knew it was a 440. You may well imagine the joy I felt when I cleaned the grease of the engine and read it was not a magnum. It was a 440S, not a 440M. A police pursuit special. It was rated at five ponies north of the magnum. But it just came with the NASCAR bottom end. And as we all know it’s the heads and intake that make the power. And, really, there’s nothing weak about the cast crank and rods in the magnum.

It scared the h3ll out of me. It wasn’t safe. That car had a lot more HP than it could handle.

These days I’m happy just tooling around in my Toyota Tacoma with the 2.7L four cylinder. Which was engineered by Toyota’s Asian commercial truck division. It will probably last me a million miles. which makes it the last vehicle I will ever need. Which means I won’t be buying the cluster**** the lefties are designing for me.

https://www.flightjournal.com/the-wilder-wildcat/#outer-popup

Technology makes it simpler.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwVOyzAI_mM

Hacking the system is a lot easier than modifying a Rochester Quadrajet. If any of you remember that.

But on the other hand if you can modify the quadrajet you can feed your motor with all the fuel and air it will ever need. Giving that you want to live til tomorrow. I say this as a man who wants a Pontiac 421 six pack.

Already done. Search for “tuner cars”. Most modern cars (all?) include a computer/chip that controls a wide variety of operating features. There is ready availability of upgrade chips to boost horsepower, speed, etc. The Euro bureaucrats had best make it illegal to modify your car’s original equipment, even install a sensor that can report any fiddling to the authorities.

The other solution that will also save all those lives (25,000) is to remove human control over the operation of the vehicle, aka: autonomous vehicles.