Pro-Touring Show Cars?

[Bill Howell]

Yea, carbs are cool as heck.. the big advantage of LSx engines is the weight. Oh, and EFI is more efficient..

Pro-Touring is more about suspension than engines.. too much hp is actually a waste on most tracks (well, except drag strips ;)

I think alot of folks go the LS route because that is "the right thing". A typical efi set up is what? Fifteen hundred to two grand more than a carb set up? That money will go a long way towards a nice (not all out, but decent) suspension setup. How many here have fell for the hype that they had to go with a LS and then did not have the coins to spend on their suspension or some other area they had planned to work on?
I hope that as a forum dedicated to pro-touring, we don't run off lurkers and newbies because they think if they can not or will not spend X on a particular part or area of their car, we will not welcome them here. As someone has already said-BALANCE is the key.
I have been around here for awhile now, but after this thread, I feel that my ride will probably not qualify as Pro-Touring. Maybe I need to start a new trend- "Decent-Tourer"
Bottom line, like slownova, I built my malibu suit me, not to be critiqued by someone who will probably never see it in person. It probably will not accel in any one area, but like some other things I can think of, it pleases me just fine and that is what really matters.