Originally Posted by woodsman
Tommy the best thing for any of us to do is take care of our house hold an wife an kids first. Then build the car of our dreams with in our own budgets. My brother and I have tried to stay with the boys with money and it cant be done someone always has more. We on Racing Junk are all at diffrent levels of budgets but I think all have the same goal in mind to have the best and most out of our hobby's. cepx111 has the best quote that we can all appreciate " Racing is a disease for which the only cure is poverty " I think that may be a little extreme but there is a lot of true to that.
ive allways been one to not have to be better than the next guy,i like my vehicles and have many nice ones,but its to make me happy...when i race my car i dont mind telling what it ran and i dont mind getting beat,its never bothered me...some people are soo secret on what their car runs and allways try to go faster...ill never want more than 10s and im 35 and have raced since my first hot rod at 17(68 mustang)...i could pull some equity out or sell one of my many vehicles or just use some money to build a 7 second car,but i dont do much track time and to me,if i tow it to the track and run down the track and make that 7 second pass,i may be shaking a bit....,but its not a car i can jump in with the family and drive 80 miles in the summer time,to me the only way that could be done is with the twin turbo small block with a 6 speed behind it...
but my camaro is a 10 second car,with a 125 shot...and my gn is 11s all day with comfort and a/c,and one heck of a stereo...i have a stage one 9 second motor all new sitting for it,and it dont bother me not having it under the hood...i love race cars and i see many on this site,including yours...i like seeing a extremely clean race car,im more into making them look perfect than crazy fast,ive seen both too,but 10s is fast enough for this guy
11s will do too,heck 12s is faster than most cars on the road...