If your serious about geting into drag racing you only need a body to keep the bugs out of your teeth....anything will work...some better than others but all can be made to work with enough time and money.
The cheapest route is with an old Mopar, the A bodies Dart, Duster early Barracudas and the like...they have good rear ends if you find one with a 8 3/4, the stock suspension is already set up for drag racing and the Uni-Body lends itself to a sawzall without comprimising the strength of the chassis. The engines are bullet tough and if you can find a good machinest you can build huge HP from the stock Forged Cranks, super tough rods, great heads and valve trains.
The Chevy's are a simpler project only because everybody's got one and parts are plentiful.
We build them all....Ford, Chevy and Mopar, dollar for dollar we always make more HP from the budget Mopars than the others.
If you really want to make 700 HP all motor your gonna have to get out the big checkbook and be prepard to leave it out......the maintainence on a motor like that is HIGH and constant. Our Blown, Alcohol, Chevy Powered, 41 Willy's, AA/Gas car costs nearly a $1000 a pass over a year....We have a 85/360 Dodge Ram Pick-up that makes 720 HP on our Dyno with a 200 shot of giggle juice...we drive it to the track....you don't even want to know what it cost to put that beast together
We also have a pair of early A body Cudas...a 64 and a 66, the 64 is a 340 4 speed car runs high 9's and the 66 is a 318 that runs in the mid 11's...both extremely fast and extremely consistant.
Our other cars include a 78 Chevy Pick-up 355, 65 Satelite 400 and my wife runs our 86 Dodge 360 Pick-up tow truck in Sportsman.....and does well!
Drag Racing IS for Professionals....and that my friend is "YOU"..like any other sport it takes practice and patience while your learning...the rewards of winning that first event are well worth the effort...or you can sit at home and watch Football all day Sunday....Yawn......
If your serious....I'd be more than willing to help you get started, teach you the ropes, the phycology and the secrets of Drag Racing as we know them anyhow.
Our new toll free number is 1-TOO-TOO-QUIK it should be hooked by the end of this month ...we're waiting on some new equipment to arrive.
I'm Don, and you can call me Monday-Friday.....I'm at some track somewhere every weekend.
Our new web site is up although we just started contruction on it so it doesn't have much on it right now...i'll be posting my tech articles soon so bookmark it.
www.toomuchracing.com