I was reading Steve32's Post about the Cars he has built, and was intrigued about a Car he built with 1500 horsepower but didn't drive it much-that leads me to this question:

What is the upper limit to "streetable" horsepower? I know there are a lot of variables there (Vehicle Weight, Induction (Injected or Carb'd), cu. in. displacement, etc., etc., and the new Vette is supposed to be offered at 600 h.p. and so on-I'm shooting for 600 h.p. in my build, and it seems pretty tame compared to some of the stuff out there-what are your experiences?

I have a friend with a Pro charged 505 c.i.d Nova, and it was dyno'd @ 1380 h.p.-it's mostly a Strip Car (8.90's on 10.5" Tires-still trying to get traction), he will take it to a cruise-in once in a blue moon-not really streetable.

Everyone will have their own opinion here-quite frankly, I've had some pretty fast street cars in my time (and a few strip cars), but nothing approaching 1000 h.p. on the street-so, what is everyone's opinion-is the upper limit 5, 6, 700 Horsepower on the street?

Now wait, let's not get into the debate that Hot Rod Magazine did with it's fastest Street Car Series-to me those really aren't every day streetable. Heck, some of them are tube framed wonders, just short of Pro Stock-I'm talking about a car you could get into on Saturday morning, get your Coffee (and/or Doughnuts-mmmm, I love Doughnuts ), drive to the Cruise (or wherever) and not have to shut it down because it gets too hot, or constantly foul plugs and the like-