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Originally posted by Tinker51
... but I will leave you with this one piece of advice. Don't be there when they do it. You don't want to be around when they wind out your baby to full song. It will make you cringe. 
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I kinda disagree. Hearing my baby wind all the way up under a full load was one of the coolest things I've ever experienced. Seeing all the thermocouples in the headers, the velocity stack sitting on top, watching our fuel pressure gauge vibrate to pieces (Summit Fuel Pressure gauge, don't recommend it if you make any power - or I coulda just had a lemon)...
When Tony fired it up for the first time in front of me, jerked the joystick a couple times, then hit the big green button, the ensuing sounds were righteous. Scary but righteous. I "knew" the bottom end was bulletproof and was just hoping I had everything hooked up right. I was more worried about whether or not it would start than whether or not it would blow apart.
If you like to live on the edge, then listening to a 500 horsepower smallblock on a dyno pull is a pretty good thrill.
