I want to go Stocker Racing

Originally Posted by Harry 6674

I really haven't figured out why pure stock would be so much cheaper? Maybe you take a totally original car to a race and qualify, I'm not sure, but if you want to have killer car the costs would go up. If you wanted to build a top of the class car I doubt there would be a 3K$ difference, if you can do most of the work yourself. I've never seen the pure stock rules so as usual I'm probably all wet.

Our C5 runs almost 1 under in Pure Stock in good air and we've added gears, headers, light wheels, drag radials, a converter, a good tune, etc. The difference comes in $$$ comes in a couple areas:

1. We have OEM cylinder heads. Never touched. To be competitive in Stock you have to run $3500+ Layer heads.
2. Factory computer. How much for a complete Accel or similar system? $2500+?
3. Our converter is an off-the shelf "street" converter (Yank SS4000) that we actually bought used for $500. Also, transmission is completely stock. What does a race converter and metric transmission cost? $5000?
4. Also, no roll bar needed, expensive lifters, valve springs that need replaced all the time, radial slicks that are junk after how many runs, ...

Just in that list above I've come up with about $15,000 in savings and we still are capable of running a second under in good conditions. Yes, we have a Corvette which is more expensive than say an F-body but that's what we had, what we wanted to build, and a little different than other cars in our class.

Scott