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Originally Posted by Floyd Gomez
OK Jeff. How many times do you spend 60 bucks with a guarentee to run for 18K? You also supported my claim as far as cost. You say you have 35K in a Superstocker and for another 15K you could run 1.0 under to be competetive. You also claim to have a car that cost 9600.00 that runs 10.0 and for 450.00 it could run 9's. That is exactly my point. This is to get people interested in STOCK SUPERSTOCK. Is your 9600.00 car legal for stock or super stock? I'm guessing NOT. And yes you can build a 10.0 car for 7 grand taht looks awesome and like a stocker. 90 Camaro V6 car bought for 3K. Clean car. SBC350 built with turbo 350 trans and shift kit. 2500.00. Guages, safety and nitrous 1500.00 and it ran 10.07 @ 131.63 MPH. Now call Dan Fletcher or Woodro or any other competetive Stock or Superstock racer and ask them how much to build a car in class that runs the same. All I hear is TV this and 18K that. What you are not saying is you have less that a 10% chance of running for the money and being on TV. You mention running ABC class under B weight and make it fair. Thats a joke right or do you not follow class racing. Bring a CJ A/SA and put it against a C/SA camaro both at B weight. You can't say the CJ cant run because his legal class is A. See then how many class racers want part of a heads up 1950's arm drop race. And as far as head count. IF you READ my post it states more are racing today than in 2000 in class. It ALSO states that eventhough many racers have parked or sold we still have a higher head count than in 2000.
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If I would travel like I use to to Nats events I could problably go to 5-8 60 to 18k to win events. If I would go to 5-8 Nats events with 250 to enter to win 2500 plus contingency. Running ABC cars at equal weight is no more of a joke then how the class cars are running each other now. Running them together makes more heads up running then the singles at Nats. CJ are going to be fast no matter what until the factors are correct at any event, so no need to go there. I totally understand the grass roots of classracing but the direction it is going do you feel it will survive. I dont, just my opinion but something else needs to happen and so far I havent seen anything better to give the class racing a jump start. Alex event was great glad I did it and wish it happened again. No Problem is great glad I did that one to and wish they had more then one a year or in different parts of the country. The other Sports Nats just are not the same as No Problem.
Some of the latest POA has a dial in board to show what the guys need to run to stay in. The same could happen for a POA class event. Go off the index or Nat record on the same boards and see how the cars do against that. Some of Rich ideas may not be great but they try something and change if it doesnt work and Im sure they could change the existing concept to work for class racing to.
Oh yeah change the glass hood and put a 400 SBC legal motor and I could be a GT/A,B,C car in hours