Some Englishtown observations.

[Lenny5160]

Originally Posted by goinbroke2

He's out of junior dragsters soon and wanted a bigger dragster, I told him they're too expensive and you have to be in Super Pro here which is 11.50 and faster. His next question was thought provoking.."Why, why do you have to go so fast in a dragster, why can't you start out say 12 seconds?" Hundred reasons why but the point was valid, we made juniors for kids to rejuvenate the sport..why not give them (or anybody) the next stepping stone and allow 12 sec dragsters?
Yes I said he can drive my mustang in Stock elim but that's not the point. He grew up in dragsters and wants to continue in dragsters but I don't have the pockets to do it.

I've seen a few guys drop a bone stock 350 into a dragster and run very low 11s. I think you'd need to try pretty hard to get a dragster into the 12s.

An older dragster chassis and junkyard motor will run Super Pro and be vastly cheaper than any half-decent door car. Even without the junkyard motor route, a friend was running a fairly heavy S-10 into the very low 11s with a $700 parts-store short block.

1320racer has his way of saying things, but he's usually not far off. I started racing as a fairly young kid, at 17. I'm pushing 40 now, and I'm still one of the 'kids' in the staging lanes!