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Originally Posted by Lenny5160
I've seen a few guys drop a bone stock 350 into a dragster and run very low 11s. I think you'd need to try pretty hard to get a dragster into the 12s.
An older dragster chassis and junkyard motor will run Super Pro and be vastly cheaper than any half-decent door car. Even without the junkyard motor route, a friend was running a fairly heavy S-10 into the very low 11s with a $700 parts-store short block.
1320racer has his way of saying things, but he's usually not far off. I started racing as a fairly young kid, at 17. I'm pushing 40 now, and I'm still one of the 'kids' in the staging lanes!
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Oh I agree, just thinking sfi stuff gets more expensive the faster you go. Inline six in a front eng would be slow but cool...and cheap to build. (buy??what is this buy that everyone keeps talking about? lol)
The issue is that the slow cars are footbrakers and once you hit superpro they're running all electronic's and stuff and they are the "best of the best" who have come up through the ranks. To someone starting out, street class is awesome, but for a rail "starter class" would be a slow dragster, As it is now, if you want to run a rail you must be in SP. Stepping into a 9 sec all electronic dragster as a first car isn't probable. Yes I've seen it, but after two years of first round losses they sell it and buy a boat and they say it was a bad experience.
Regardless, this is class racing and this thread's about e-town so I'm done. Just random ramblings...