just to through in my 2 sence here i have ran against and seen a lot of svt's run and i am just as fast or even faster than some in the 1/4 mile that is and all i have is a 98 gl v6 5sp with a few bolt ons. the plus side to my situation is a spent only 3500 dollars for my car and roughly only 1000 bucks for mods so that is pretty dang cheap if ya ask me. the big down fall is it is just a plain old contour and nothing fancy looking but what the hell ya get waht ya pay for right. i just figured i bought the car for a daily driver and didn't need another fancy vehicle to worry about some jackass messing with.
