damn, didn't have em a week.....worse than me

 

Well he's on his way there, either way the fastest way to lose money racing is to just half build **** and never run it.

 

Actually already decided against selling them. Thought I had a financial burden coming up next year, but I don't. I'm ordering the valve train real soon.

I race Late Models in NC. Word was that I was going to have to pay $4000 per race. I just found out it will only be $2000 per race. That makes things easier.

 

Pay $2,000 per race? WTF is that......sounds like BS....if you had $4,000 to spend per race then WTF is a set of SBC dart heads.....

Unless your nothing more than a driver I say your stories don't add up with some of the stuff you ask like how do you mic a head.

No offense...feel free to correct me

 

Oh SNAP

 

I really don't know much about cars. I know the basics, but I've never built an engine before. I didn't really grow up around mechanics or racing. I was just born with a gift to drive cars. But, you don't really have to be a mechanic to know how to drive.

It really is insane how much it costs to race. I will be racing out of pocket next season in late models, unless I can find a sponsor to step up in that or Grand National East. GN East is $35,000 per race. Ouch.

 

Any kind of "heads up" racing is very, very expensive. I used to race Formula Ford in SCCA. Class was designed to be cheap and competitive. They got it half right - it was competitive. Unless you had a chassis not more than a year or two old and a fresh motor, you were not going to be at the front. Didn't mean the backmarkers couldn't have fun - we raced each other. But if you wanted to win, you needed $$$. SCCA now has some "spec" classes where you can do NOTHING to the car except adjust the suspension. I've been interested in that, but that, of course, takes all the technical interest out of it which puts you back where you started.

In drag racing, that's why almost everyone races some form of brackets. You could be the best driver in the world, but if the other guy has 100hp on you it's gonna be tough to win. I'm amazed at how much money people will spend to run a Quick 8 or Quick 16 at a local track for a few dollars.When you need a $100,000+ car to have one chance in 16 to win $1,500 it does not make economic sense.

Racing - the most efficient way ever invented to turn a large pile of money into a small one

Rich

 

 

What is BS?

 

**** I used to race gokarts and would spent atleast $2k in a weekend, and that was nothing compared to the other people. Still managed to win a state championship somehow. There is no such thing as cheap racing.

 

BULLSHART

if it cost that much and you were able to afford it then whats a thousand bucks for a set of heads? You must be selling alot of those protien shakes

 

Well, if I have to pay just $2000 per race, I can afford to spend money on a leisure engine. If its $4000, there's no way. I want to be able to race at least 5 races next year, and at $4000 per race, that would only leave me about $30k to live on.

If you were talking about the $35k for Grand National, the ONLY way I could afford that would be with a sponsor.

 

Serious racing is always exspensive. I spent half that on a long weekend of kart racing an NO state championship. But damn, it sure was fun.

 

It really does suck, how expensive it is. Its really a "royal" sport. Mostly, the drivers out there have a lot of funding from rich families. Now, I understand why my parents never gave me a dime to do it. You really have to sacrifice everything you have to make it if you come from what I did (no help from parents, disabled mother, absent father). I have idolized Earnhardt since I was little, until I found out that his father raced as well. Now I realize, I will be the first of my kind when I make it.