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I don't think you'll even be able to go 80mph at 4k rpms without a belt, let alone untuned with one.
Do us a favor, take your car out on the highway for 5 to 10 minutes with the belt off and just see how it runs. I guarantee you won't be able to get it to 80mph first of all. I know when my belt snaps on my supercharger, I struggle to get it to even 55mph. And it takes 4 times as long, if not more. There is simply no throttle response. So now try to merge in to the 80mph traffic on a short offramp after your refueling and food stops (which you'll have to do at least 8 times I bet) and see how safe that is. If an accident occurs in which you need punch it or if somebody is coming up on your ass and you can't pass the guy on your side, you're going to feel like an asshole for having to slow down and move behind him for the car behind you to pass.
I don't think you're understanding the complications of getting your car down there, your vehicle is going to be technically unsafe and the sheer concentration of driving it that way will exhaust you.
By the way, I'm sure you have this part all figured out too, but what are you going to do when you get down there and this guy can't get to your car right away? What are you going to do if it takes him a long time to even get the car tuned? I will speak from experience that this stuff happens and stuff will break, things will fail and problems you didn't even know you had will come up. Are you financially prepared to sink money into this car for those emergency situations? If not, are you mentally prepared to leave the car there and go back to New Jersey? Are you financially prepared to buy a last minute plane ticket to fly back up when the car is taking too long or do you have that much time to take off of work?
I just can't see how, with the penny pinching you're doing by thinking you can drive the car down there how it is, that you can afford anything if the slightest error happens. The cost of sparkplugs alone will eat you alive after you keep fouling them due to the rich fuel mixture (yeah, even though you swapped in the stock injectors).
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