Re: SS Modified
Adding even more to my point earlier, Jim Hawkins won the Division 5 championship with his SS/CS combo back when he ran it! I'm sure he did his best to avoid running Ricky Ray back then as he had the other CS car in D5, and the car without the latest and greatest still stood tall at the end of the day.
I guess I'm not understanding why Dick is so insistent on creating a new class? There are 110 classes right now in Super Stock eliminator. If you can't find one of those that you are interested in competing in - maybe NHRA isn't what you want to do? I know there is the Chicago Outlaw Super Stock group, and the Ozark Mountain Super Shifters groups that have a lot of Super Stock type cars that are bad to the bone! You've been at the top of the heap of Super Stock before Dick, you know it's never going to be cheap or without its pains. Oddly enough you're one of the most professionally successful guys I knew as a kid, so if you're uncomfortable with the costs - how do you think the rest of us that are still competing feel?! It will likely never change because nobody competing in the class really wants it to change - we've entered it knowing full and well what it takes to do it right.
Sadly it doesn't matter what you build, when you go to sell it - they are all worth peanuts in comparison. We sold our SS/CS motor complete carb to pan with the converter and rear end gears for under $25k. That motor has the best of everything in it and over $35k in parts alone.
Mike
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