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Originally Posted by B Parker
Mike I hope you just didn't figure out your not going to make money racing. I don't know what combo you run in Stock but what if someone runs your combo wants to go fast and is willing to do the work and spend the money and has the knowledge. And then goes 1.20 under. This isn't T-ball not everyone can put the same time, effort, money and knowledge into their cars as others. So we should punish those that can? It's not all that hard to make almost any combo a one second under car. Yes you may have to spend some money, put some time and effort in. If you don't choose to I don't have a problem with it. But that's your choice. You can spend as much as 10 grand for a converter and trany but you can also go real fast for less than half that amount. I would be in favor of taking a look at the index's in the lower classes that loose that tenth between K and L. In most of the higher classes if you can't go at least one under and you have a heads up you may have spent all that money getting to the track and paying the entrance fee just to get put on the trailer in a heads up race. BP
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I always knew there was no money to be made class racing. My combo is a 1968 Camaro running SS/IA. I don’t know if any car in the class running that combo that can get any where near a second under. I have run .62 under with my car the way it is right now. It’s pretty old school and I have the wrong converter in the car for the combo. I do plan to update my trans to a 3 speed soon with the correct converter so I expect to see a .20 improvement with that change. I know I can’t win a heads up race against some of the FI and oddball combos that run my class. I just accept it and continue to race. I do enjoy it. I am just an old working man and race with in my means. My car is not fast but everything is done by me. Engine transmission rear end and chassis are done by me. I do farm out the machine work but do all of the assembly myself. Not many do that anymore. I even painted it myself.