True but he used to be a top 3 runner when he ventured out, that's what I was getting at!! Chris is still a very competitive car this year @ Sunset.

......And if anyone wants to buy the best 4 cylinder in Barrie just give me a call, Brandon won't be needing it much longer !

Ken Mackinnon  705-791-2852

Not to but your balls but going by lap times on saturday night that would be the 5th best 4 cylinder behind the Burrow girls , Crumbie and Glaze . I think most people relize the future of this class is not the Ford Mustang .

Um Hello there "Glaze is a Mustang"

Wade I am well aware that Glaze runs a Mustang and not only that but it is one of the very very few EFI Mustangs running which I partly attribute to it being as quick as it is . I did not say Mustangs were not competitive but they are not the future of this class . If you look around the province most places that allow the Honda be it a CRX Prelude or Accord they are dominant even though they make up a much smaller percentage of the field except at Sunset .With all the Honda's except the older CRX which has its own strong points you get the double wishbone suspension that is far superior when it comes to racing then anything in its class .

The Honda is the small block Chevy of 4 cylinder racing no other make has as many aftermarket or production performance parts available for it .Take into consideration that the Mustang (Fox body cars) are based on 1970s technology and the 2.3 Ford engine is based on the Ford OHC engine that replaced the Essex V4 at the end of the 60s with only 2 valves per cylinder.
If you compare the Honda engine to the Ford it is as primitive as the flat head Ford was to the small block Chev . Much like the Super modifieds of the mid 50s when the small block Chev came out some guys kept trying to run the flat heads for another decade and thats where the Ford 2.3 guys are (I know I just lost 3/4 of the mini stock drivers with the flat head Ford reference)

With the exclusion of a few makes such as Hyundai it has been almost two decades since a 2 or 3 valve 4 cylinder engine has been produced . Finding a car that is almost 20 years old that is not a rust bucket in this climate is getting harder and harder and is something tracks will have to deal with in the near future . The facts are I can get a late 90s Neon or Honda that has been hit in the back or side fix it and build it to race for a fraction of the cost of a Mustang .

are escorts a option. at acms an escort set atop the pts with a Field of Honda's,neons, a Tiburon and mustang,even a k-car and no one gets thru the corner like the escort.neons seem to be the car of choice due to the performance and lower cost.

I don't know what year Escort you are talking about but the 90s Escorts had the CVH engine and there are allot of performance parts available for them . Tracks that don't let 16V cars run would do well to let Neon's in because this is the cheapest mini stock you can build .

I remember we had a big escort wagon that was an absolute tank in the first two years of the four fun class. I could not beleive how surprisingly quick that thing was.

BTW Pinecrest: I thought I had read over the winter that you and your son had purchased a neon from Ottawa and planned to race it at Sunset....what happened to that? Or was it someone else?