best motor and car combination for the money

[ALMACK]

Good points in this thread.
I agree with the assesment that alot of people building a stocker want to go out and kill the index.

I, however have a different goal. I want to qualify my Pure Stocker with the stock trans and convertor. (shift kit only) and rear gears.
Later, if funds permit I want to upgrade the car to stock so I can run the combo races around here as well as divisional races.

I have no interest in sinking a bunch of my retirement money into trying to blast the index tho.