A simple question which is nonetheless CONTROVERSIAL

[RACER X #99]

Certainly no expert here but I think torque is overated in a light weight car. I know you need lots of torque to move 70,000 lb dump trucks but somehow the lightweight 4 cylinder rice burners with all the power adders can run in the 7 second range on the drag strip.
The high rpm F1 cars are very light and are the fastest accelerating road race cars and they have small displacement engines with little torque.
The Nascar stockcars of today are a little lighter than they used to be but run much smaller but more powerfull engines than they ever did.

Ain't nothing wrong with running one of thse big block engines in a Cobra if authenticity is your goal but for anybody to assume a big engine equates to better performance is fooling themselves and nobody else.

There is no replacement for light weight.

RD