The 'Big Fish', after well chosen modifications to default transmission, suspension, alignment and differential settings, is one of the easiest A Class 'Outlaw' types to drive. The advantage it has over some other muscle cars is the ability to add both a rear wing and a rear bumper to hold down the rear end. I skipped the front bumper, after much experimentation, because I find that the addition of one destabilizes the car at the tremendous speeds it reaches in straight sections of track.
The Big Fish is well suited to 'Power Tracks', especially Road America. It's numbers suggest that it would be a good choice for the 'Sprint' tracks like Sebring Club,really just a series of 1/8 mile drag races, but for some reason I haven't had much success there. It MIGHT be that keeping the rear end, and 1097hp from passing your front end as you go through a slow corner can be... difficult.
The easiest to drive and easiest to set up 'Outlaw' is based on an LS7 T/A, but the Barracuda was ultimately faster with development. The Stingray, Charger, Chevelle and some of the rarer 'Power' cars like the Ferrari 250 GTO have proven capable of faster lap times (thus far, and last time I checked! lol), but, I find that the Fish can hold its own or better, 8 or 9/10.
I built it because I was getting tired of B-Class and was also getting tired of other Americans that I ran into online telling me that the USA can't build anything with wheels that isn't a trash can. My fondest memory thus far in the Outlaw Fish was watching a full room of AWD turbo A-Class from germany and Japan leave me in their dust off the line at Sebring, while they commented on how American cars were useless.
I thanked them for putting up with my american car, and then, I warned them.
"I'll be on your left in the back straight"
I remember the guy in the porsche stopped laughing about the start and said, "Holy crap you're comin up quick!' as the noise from the HEMI drowned out everything else. Then, since an american car won, the consensus was that muscle cars are 'broken'. I didn't feel like explaining the insane things a skilled driver can do with an old 2000GT so I logged. Is this a *gasp "missile car"? I may have been the first to use the term and I guess the answer is 'maybe?'. I do know that a RWD converted CRX, and a few other non-muscle cars can leave it behind in a straight if you're not careful, which to me is just as big a problem or worse. I think a classic "missile car" is stock tires + 200 mph, which just would not work in RL.
All that hot air aside, the real reason I keep 'swimming with 'The Fish'' is because she's one hell of a good time. Nothing's finer than listening to the guys in the AWD turbos curse when American 'trash' roars by at something north of 200mph
