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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich
Buy the running, working Stock Eliminator ride, race it, see how things work, and watch for the engine you want to come up for sale. Buy an engine, right after you see it go down the track, pull it at the track and take it with you. Buy the headers, converter, and gear you need to make it work, and run the combination you want. You will not be able to build one "from scratch" cheaper, or easier, unless you can do 100% of the work yourself, and you have all the requisite skills and experience.
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Yes, that makes 100% total sense. You are the voice of reason in every sense.
That said, I found a great deal of joy racing twice a week for many years when I was young, putting Corvette after Camaro after Chevelle after Nova after Mustang after GTO after 4-4-2 after Mopar after AMX (ad nauseam), on the trailer in NHRA Pro ET, with my $850 stick-shift Mazda back in the '80s, using a nearly stock junkyard 70 cubic inch engine that I built myself, on a kitchen chair.
Now that I am at the other end of life, I'd like to try it again, and if it isn't successful, I'll probably still enjoy it just as much, mostly because of the people- drag racing, at least at the sportsman level, is a very social sport.