[Doug Hoven]

While I may be the one of the youngest members here on class racer as well as being part of the very small percentage of "kids" that are interested in drag racing let alone stock eliminator, it is nice to be able to read the years of experience and knowledge everyone on this forum has to offer. For what it's worth, what really dragged me deeper into the whole class racing thing was being Billy Nees' personal tuner and part time driver for the "Not For Nothin'" project, and the car I drove all last season came out of the back catalog of his collection. There is however something to be said for learning things for yourself. I am currently in the process of building my first "stocker" engine and am trying things in this build that Billy told me would never work, but to me it's worth the effort to try certain things anyway. In the end, I am going to learn something whether something works or doesn't work, and that is what is most important to me. (sorry for the long post)