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Schmidt A103 · 12-24-2009, 08:51 AM

Now maybe I will get some flaming for this,but a long time ago I used to do a lot of street racing and grudge racing at the track.Back then I would tell some of the guys how I wasnt impressed by the killer cars they built.We had a local racer who ran SS/GT with a Camaro,and I would see these street racers with fiberglass front end mini tubbed cars with brodix headed bigblocks,dominators and hood scoops running low 10's,and tell guys how I could clean up around here with Walt's Super stocker.His car could run a tenth or two faster then that with a stock steel intake and a Q jet.Unknown to me it was actually stock steel heads,not intake,but impressive nonetheless.At 19 years old when I had my first set of 4.10 gears set up by this superstock racer I stood in amazemnet at the fact that the sheelstanding car that ran low 10's every weekend was an all steel full interior car with a 305 and Q jet.The fact that stockers are now truning those numbers is even more impressive.

Even as a 19 year old getting a start in drag racing I was truly impressed with how fast these cars were,but the fact was that it cost a lot of money to run these numbers and I wasnt a 2nd generation racer who was stepping into a car my family owned.I learned how to run the number with stock iron heads,flat tappet cams,and no big shoodscop,but I knew that it was far easier for me to do it by porting my heads and running a .550 lift cam then it was to run unported heads and a .390 lift cam so long that I needed to trun it 8000+ to make it work.I could put down the number with a 3500 stall convertor and 4.56's while the class racers had 5500 or better and 5.57's.I was driving my low 12 seond car to the track on 93 pump gas, and they owned a truck and trailer.Since most of the racers I know got their start just like me,broke and looking for any way to go fast on the cheap,class racing was just plain impossible.My car cost $4500 to build and thiers cost 25 grand or better.Today my $15,000 street car runs low 10's,makes it to the payout window on a regular basis in super pro and has a flat tappet 439 chevy that I built in my garage and get about 700 runs between freshen ups,and stands just as good a chance as anybody at making it to the big show in super street.It just makes more sense to me.

12-24-2009, 08:51 AM	#60
Schmidt A103 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 14 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Think about this......... Now maybe I will get some flaming for this,but a long time ago I used to do a lot of street racing and grudge racing at the track.Back then I would tell some of the guys how I wasnt impressed by the killer cars they built.We had a local racer who ran SS/GT with a Camaro,and I would see these street racers with fiberglass front end mini tubbed cars with brodix headed bigblocks,dominators and hood scoops running low 10's,and tell guys how I could clean up around here with Walt's Super stocker.His car could run a tenth or two faster then that with a stock steel intake and a Q jet.Unknown to me it was actually stock steel heads,not intake,but impressive nonetheless.At 19 years old when I had my first set of 4.10 gears set up by this superstock racer I stood in amazemnet at the fact that the sheelstanding car that ran low 10's every weekend was an all steel full interior car with a 305 and Q jet.The fact that stockers are now truning those numbers is even more impressive. Even as a 19 year old getting a start in drag racing I was truly impressed with how fast these cars were,but the fact was that it cost a lot of money to run these numbers and I wasnt a 2nd generation racer who was stepping into a car my family owned.I learned how to run the number with stock iron heads,flat tappet cams,and no big shoodscop,but I knew that it was far easier for me to do it by porting my heads and running a .550 lift cam then it was to run unported heads and a .390 lift cam so long that I needed to trun it 8000+ to make it work.I could put down the number with a 3500 stall convertor and 4.56's while the class racers had 5500 or better and 5.57's.I was driving my low 12 seond car to the track on 93 pump gas, and they owned a truck and trailer.Since most of the racers I know got their start just like me,broke and looking for any way to go fast on the cheap,class racing was just plain impossible.My car cost $4500 to build and thiers cost 25 grand or better.Today my $15,000 street car runs low 10's,makes it to the payout window on a regular basis in super pro and has a flat tappet 439 chevy that I built in my garage and get about 700 runs between freshen ups,and stands just as good a chance as anybody at making it to the big show in super street.It just makes more sense to me. Last edited by Schmidt A103; 12-24-2009 at 08:53 AM.