SMP's best time: 8.40@171.84MPH, Best MPH is 174
Here's what I think as to why everyone is talking smack, SMP breaks all the "rules":
Car is a Turbo Dodge with old tech, and has nothing to do with an SRT-4.
Its not a factory backed car either or an import with a huge following.
Car was built and campaigned just by SMP until recently, even now on a certain turbo dodge forum you can even personally donate to the race car fund.
He is using a production head/block and transmission.
Runs 35psi of boost.
He is the first in the 9's and 8's in the Turbo Dodge world and is soon making a lot his tech available via FWDPerformance along with his rough recipes for making huge power.