I never could understand why guys wanted to "SOUND" fast, especially when they weren't. For me, I liked my **** to be all ugly, very little chrome, look OEM as could be sound stock as could be, then negotiate a race with some guy that's loping off the motor mounts and to get all the space they'd give me, then beat them by fender or a car length and take their money. Then I'd race their buddy who was just a little faster than them with the same race and beat him by a fender or car length and take his money too. Truth be known, I pretty much knew the whole time I'd beat them heads up cuz it takes more than a a big cam and chrome to go fast.
Can't say I won them all, but I did win the majority, and I don't recall a night ever went home losing cash. If I lost one, I'd make it up on the next one. You can't win them all anyway. You'd never be able to get a race if you spanked everyone.