[Mike Gray]

I think Paul Merolla’s post is right on the money. I’m a newbie to stock eliminator and haven’t made a single pass yet. I did race in super-street and super-gas for about 15yrs. A .90 car is an easier build than a class car and you can purchase 800hp crate motors for less than my stocker engine. But where is the challenge? It may be in the driving but a lot of us like the engineering/building side of challenge also. I sold my cars and took time off to raise my kids and now it’s time to go racing again. I’m retired and that’s probably we’re a lot of the new class racers will come from as they raid their 401K to build a competitive car. Sure it’s expensive but if thought out and done carefully the money invested won’t totally evaporate.
You guys make stock sound real hard but I’m planning to be legally under the index first time out. A front runner probably not, my goal was to keep the car legal and see how far I can push it even if it ruffles some feathers.