X3 on bracket racing it. You can buy a nice house for what it costs to actually build a "legal" competitive NHRA class racer. In 1988 I was going to build an A/S big block Camaro for NHRA racing. We were doing engines for a guy that had just moved up from Stock Eliminator to Super Stock, and he was going to give me a hand with all the tricks he had learned. He had the fastest 302 Chevy in the country at that time in a record holding Camaro, but when he told me it cost him almost $40,000 dollars a year to be at the level of competition he was at. Just his cylinder heads alone cost almost $6500. Your probably wondering how in the world can you even do $6500 dollars worth of work to a set of stock heads. Thats just how advanced Stock Eliminator was in 1988, just imagine how much farther it has advanced since then. I realised it was too rich for my blood. Im sure the costs have gone up even more today. Even the guys that are at the end of the classes at the V,W classes and farther have a load of money in their cars and engines and still struggle to run the index. Its more than just bolting parts together in class racing today than it was back in the 70's when the average had a fighting chance to compete in it.
