Okay, I have read this post from front to back and I can say that Demon is right, you have to have traction for that torque to even work for you, I have driven my friends contour to a best of 15.5, and it is very difficult to get traction in it, it might not be a torque monster, but it has enough to spin the tires at will, and the Honda crowd the most you will get out of a N/A Honda is about 150 lb ft, and that is generally at 6-7k rpm, not exactly easy on the drivetrain when launching, I broke my differential in the ever going quest for fast times with no torque, as any smart drag racer will tell you, the way to quick et's is getting off the line, why do you think people spend so much money in suspension tuning, wheelie bars, huge slicks, all in the name of traction and getting off the line, after that it is all about power.
