Yes he won the championship then, won a feature in 2006 and finished top5 and 7th in 2007 with a freshened head. It still can be done I'm told. I see an accord and neon being built by guys with lots of years racing experience and they dont plan on spending anywhere near $5000. Mind you we only have one honda at Flamboro so far.lol.
Not sure who bought Penny's car. But i've seen a last place car everyweek, almost win a feature one week when the track champion borrowed it.
Now now tisk tisk did I ever say you couldn't do it over a few seasons no doubt you can but it's just simple physics, I inquired myself with more then one Chassis builder to build a 4 banger would cost me atleast $3000 by the time it was rolling (this includes purchase of the car to be used)( also pretty much ball park cost to do a thunder chassis aswell) steel is steel and safety equipment is all relivent it all cost the same no matter what you're biulding with it! now that being said as of right now I'm not much of a welder so I can't save the money there this is why I asked a few fabricators to get a ball park figure! now all this aside I could easily just drop a used motor in race but in no way shape or form would I expect to be competitive nor would I expect it to be reliable, so thus brining in a fresh engine and head ball park $2500 and a few trick things everybody is doing (yes I mean everybody) I'm just saying that I don't believe these fellas are out to lunch on the asking price of their very competitive cars!! they are jump in and go to the front rides!! LOL Ask Ol' Nick how much it'd take to buy his now minted (via Chance Isherwood) Championship Stang! I'm betting a yrs wages that you couldn't buy it for any less then $6000 but this is just my opinion though I've been proven wrong it doesn't happen very often! Thayne as for having $1500 in your whole engine I'm happy it worked that way for you! I never said I agreed with fellas asking that much I'm just simply stating that it's the going rate so either buy it or chase it LOL I just figure if you don't already have a car and need to start from scratch you best be willing to shell out $4500 and up for a competitive outta the box ride, or go a touch cheaper and figure it out on your own
Any of those Thunder Cars are deals. Put it to you this way, as is usually the case, you can't build one for that cost. I have way more than $6500 in mine, it runs at the back, and I started with a $2000 car. The chassis from CSC costs at least $1800, the cage kit in a box is like $900. A local chassis builder builds one with a tin kit for a little better than $3000. I fully expect my new car when built will be about $15,000 no problem. It isn't cheap to race kids, but we do it because we love it right?
I can't see putting $5000 in a mini-stock, but some of these 4-cylinder guys refuse to drive a V8 metric car. They don't understand them and don't have any interest in them. I don't know how anyone can spend 5 big ones on a "purely stock" very limited modifications class... but then again racing is full of guys spending too much on the class they are in instead of moving up a class.
I figure it cost me 2500-3000 to build my 95 golf ministock,doing all the work myself(stripping/cage/motor/trans/electric),and the car ran upfront every week until it got wrecked.Btw that was with a $300 junk yard motor.My "built" motor grenaded before I got out of the shop,lol.
Now,if you cant do all the work yourself,then $4000-$5000 for a top shelf mini is certainly not out of line.If I was buying a mini for an up and coming driver,I would buy a mid priced car for around $3500 and spend the extra dollars on a driving sghool.Driving skill makes most of the difference,especially at the lower levels.
Any of those Thunder Cars are deals. Put it to you this way, as is usually the case, you can't build one for that cost. I have way more than $6500 in mine, it runs at the back, and I started with a $2000 car. The chassis from CSC costs at least $1800, the cage kit in a box is like $900. A local chassis builder builds one with a tin kit for a little better than $3000. I fully expect my new car when built will be about $15,000 no problem. It isn't cheap to race kids, but we do it because we love it right?
I can't see putting $5000 in a mini-stock, but some of these 4-cylinder guys refuse to drive a V8 metric car. They don't understand them and don't have any interest in them. I don't know how anyone can spend 5 big ones on a "purely stock" very limited modifications class... but then again racing is full of guys spending too much on the class they are in instead of moving up a class.
Thunder6 is your car a CSC chassis ?
You may not be able to see putting $5000 into a mini stock but right now there is a guy building a Honda that cant understand why anyone would put $10,000 + into an Iraqi Taxi . Many Super Modified guys don't get the Late Model guys and on down the line it goes . When they first started the Four Fun class at Sunset i was one of the biggest nay sayers but i have now seen where several drivers from that class have moved up a class or two and be come very good drivers and some that have the potential to be top Late Model drivers in the future like Ben Mellonhorst for example . I think several of these guys may never have got into racing if their hadn't been a very inexpensive class to get their feet wet . I also see several fathers with sons in that class that are spending Saturday nights with each other and probally a night or two during the week working on their car and how can that be a bad thing in this day and age . There are now several tracks in Ontario , Oshweken being the latest to add this class because they see how its getting new people into the sport and yes adding a lot of money to the back gate . In retrospec Glen at Sunset looks pretty smart to me for identifying a niche that has so much of an upside and so many other tracks are now following . The point i am making is we all have different ideas on racing like how serious we want to get and how fast we want to go , other wise we would all be running Super Modifieds or 410 Sprint cars .
Remember we all have to start somewhere even if it looks like junk to you .