[bill dedman]

I have no personal experience with this, but I heard something that might be of interest to you.

A well-known and highly-respected race team made up of some brothers, who shall remain nameless here, who had had a lot of success running Stock Eliminator with "fast" class cars (A/SA through G/SA) tried racing with a well-setup, lower classed car as an experiment. I am not sure of the class, but I believe it to have been a high 13-second car, or in that general neighborhood.

Their final analysis was, it was REALLY hard to dial the car because atmospheric changes and variable winds made the car virtually unpredictable. Temperature and barometric pressure changes that might affect their B or C-class Stockers a tenth would affect the slower car as much as three tenths (or more).

Wheelspin was never a problem; maintenance was minimal, and breakage was non-existent, but they couldn't go rounds in a handicap situation because of inconsistencies caused by the aforementioned factors... so, they called it a non-workable situation, and got rid of it.

I have heard of racers who CAN deal with this problem (Billy Nees is a wel-known one), and obviously, people like him have a handle on the consitency problem that these guys I mentioned couldn't seem to master. But, I can guess, it won't be easy.

You pays your money, and you takes your choice... LOL! Good luck!!!