Read this. This is what a well-thought-out relatively mild oval port 396/402 can do in a 3600 lb A body.
The 7.10 e.t roughly translates to 11.20's or thereabouts. Granted this is a dedicated bracket car, but that also goes to show how important the overall combination (i.e.
"the <u>car</u>") is set up.
As far as trying to soften the hit off the line, that's only going to make your 11 second goal that much more difficult.
E.T. comes from covering the first 60' and 330' as quickly as possible, and what you give up in short times you can not make up down track (at a given HP level).
There's a thousand ways to skin a cat. Some are far more effective than others.
