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Unpopular opinion on this thread, but I think that Stock Eliminator is probably the closest thing to an "entry level" class at the NHRA divisional/national level. If you aren't too concerned about going fast, there are still quite a decent number of combinations that can be built for less than 5k and be competitive. IMHO Super Street has gotten out of hand, even more so than Stock. To be honest, I think it really just depends on what you already have/don't have to work with. Building a car from scratch, you can build a competitive M/S or lower Stocker cheaper than what I would consider an "entry level" Super Street car(mid to low 10s without a throttle stop). Not saying it can't be done, but more "slow" stockers turn on win lights than low budget super street cars.
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I'm a little confused as to why no one here is discussing that most of us started out bracket racing before advancing into either the Stock/SS route or the Super class route. In both cases, you can slowly build a bracket car chassis that meet those types of scenarios and then later build an engine to advance into actual class racing. If your budget doesn't allow advancing into class racing, there is nothing to be ashamed about if you just stick with bracket racing for your entire racing career. Quite honestly, I sometimes think I had more fun back in my flatbed trailer and half ton pickup days.
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My point is build or buy the car, it might not be competitive (as in not under the index) but totally viable for bracket racing until it is. My car was not sub index when I first built it but I bracket raced it and thrashed on it until it was. If you think this isn't a viable way to get into class racing, maybe talk to Jody Lang, that's how he started out with his car and it seems like it worked out pretty good for him?
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I get it, and agree.
At my local track there were no stock or super stock cars running so I really had no idea whatsoever about the class or how to begin it as an entry level into nhra racing but my bracket car could run 10.70s flat out and fit the s/st rules so that’s where I started. Now if we had people like Billy Nees racing at that same track weekly maybe things would have been different. But again like you said I think almost all started at the bracket level
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