Dude, I wasn't coming at you. If you have personal experience with this subject then I take your word for it. I have personal experience dictating the opposite. If you're saying that you can take a bone stock average condition Fox and go 12s with less than $2,000 then you gets mad respect...from me at least.
And by street legal/streetable/track worthy I'm talking about building a car with creature comforts that will be reliable every day. So I'm sure you can skip out on a FPR or an AFR gauge or a fuel pressure gauge...or have a boosted engine with no vacuum/boost gauge for that matter...still tho, that car will not be the most reliable. I wouldn't drive that car for more than 5 minutes around town. I mean how could you consider a modded forced induction or N/A engine to be reliable when you have no idea how much boost you're making, if there's a vacuum issue, how much pressure you fuel injectors are getting, how lean you're running, etc. You can't just skip out on these things and talk about 12 second passes for less than $2000.
What I'm saying is that your estimate is like when MM&FF says they can build a 600 hp engine for less than x amount of money. They don't factor in a lot of things that quickly add up. Little odds and ends, tools, etc. There are soo many things that can turn a small budget project into a relatively costly one. That's all I'm sayin...but again, I'm not coming at you. Everyone has their own idea of a budget build. I just feel that a budget 12 second budget build should still include everything necessary to make the car reliable and keep you aware of the engines overall condition.