With decent tyres traction dont start to become an issue till 800ish bhp imo.
He his talking about street set ups, not drag racing. auto will always be better at drag racing than manual, TRD's car did well for bpu and it was very much setup for drag racing.
Yes it does make that much difference, ive had most setups and the more power you have the faster the car is, fact.
When you was building the car I remember you saying you wanted 500rwhp from this setup, now you have made only what i guess is about 400rwhp? the bhp is all of a sudden not important to you anymore.
For the most bhp and ftlb go hand in hand, if you want a fast car you need lots of both.
I may be way off the mark here but im going to speak my mind, i feel this thread was only started by yourself to try and help the sale of your car and justify the low bhp it made, again i doubt i would have posted anything if it was not for the fact you flew off the handle in the other thread telling Ian to shove his 2 pence up his arse.