I'd say it depends on what you consider a drag car. You talking about a car running 10's, 9's 8's 7's or what? Does it need to be streetable? I personally would go with the FD just because I think it'll weigh less when striped down.....couse like I said I "think" haha



Other than that, its the same engine, your going to be using the same turbos setups, same computers, same tuning, same fuel system. You can pretty much put the same rear ends and transmissions in either one.



I also agree that the 1st gen would prob be best though if you consider it, i think it'll weigh even less than the FC or FD when striped, I think the 79 model was only like 2300 or something crazy like that when stock!!!!



STEPHEN

my 83 le is 2350 stock



mike

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rx3!!!

See that, 2350 stock is light as ****. You get a car like that and buy a 3rd gen engine and trans with something like a mild single or BNR stage 3's making 400+ rwhp on pump gas daily driven and it'll hit the super low 10's after a little weight reduction to get it down to about 2200 with driver. Course you'll reduce a lot of weight when you strip it all down to the bare necessity.



Actually you might could even hit a real high 9's on slicks. And you can just throw in a old Stang rear end, it'll take most any abuse a rotary can dish out.



STEPHEN