john shepherd was making around 700'ish horsepower and running deep in the 9's in a street car, all things aside, i respect the SRT, and congratulations on the 12.0, but you bring up a point, when you get a certain horsepower, theres not much you can really do...the srt being no exception...the supra guys, being RWD, figured out if you slap an old school automatic back there, with some supersoft rear suspension, and some big fat drag radials, your 12 second 6 speed, is a 9 second automatic, its a matter of not wanting to set the car up to run at the track, most supra guys like the top end power their cars own and have no desire to run fast 1/4 miles, but go just to see what the car does, mostly in the department of trap speed, same goes for FWD cars, and FWD will always be faster from a roll, personally, i kinda like the AWD thing and the 1.7-1.8 60' on all weathers