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Old Dec 26, 2013 | 07:41 PM
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Been trying to figure out what to do with my next project. Been thinking of a heads up stock suspension car and run some true street stuff. Or an index car. Maybe just 10.0 index or something. I really like the SS heads up stuff though. What kind of classes does everyone else run?
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Brackets, Street ET, Pro ET, 11.50 Index, LSX Rumble, True Street 12.0, and pretty much any non electronics class they let me run along with some electronics too lol

I like an 11.50 car, no bar, no jacket, tons of fun and slowing to 11.50 means my car barely breaks a sweat 200-300 passes a year no breakage is fine by me. Yeah faster can be fun but I hate working on my cars I'd rather be racing
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Old Dec 27, 2013 | 07:22 AM
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I thought about a bracket car. Maybe I'll do a bracket/true street deal and keep it with street manners. I really want to give ultimate/ultra street a go on radials. Maybe just a class filler to support the car count. Lol
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Brackets, Street ET, Pro ET, 11.50 Index, LSX Rumble, True Street 12.0, and pretty much any non electronics class they let me run along with some electronics too lol

I like an 11.50 car, no bar, no jacket, tons of fun and slowing to 11.50 means my car barely breaks a sweat 200-300 passes a year no breakage is fine by me. Yeah faster can be fun but I hate working on my cars I'd rather be racing
Well put
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Old Dec 28, 2013 | 08:31 AM
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I liked running the 11.50 class. No prep really.

Now I run our local X275 and it's a pretty expensive class to run.
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I ran 11.50 index and 1/8th mile 7.50 index the last couple years. I going to step up to 10.0 index this year.
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As much as my wallet will regret it I'm kinda leaning towards heads up radial. The wife likes radial racing too. One of the reasons I married her..lol. Thanks for the input guys...
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Depends on budget and how much Tylenol you can take.
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Old Dec 28, 2013 | 03:42 PM
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I here that a lot and see it. But I like a good challenge. I'm thinking maybe and ultra/ultimate street car with some street manners and just class fill in a few races a year and see where it goes..if I don't like it I still got a not so hacked up street car.
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Friday night street car heads up shootouts haha
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Old Dec 28, 2013 | 05:39 PM
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outlaw 8.5 is up and coming... i used to run a class called street challenge where the only rules were come on a 255/60/15 true street radial tire... that was lots of fun till we started going low 9's and people just faded away...
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I would look at what classes are run in your area. Around here (ohio) we don't have any local ultra classes but 8.5/x235 is pretty big. Obviously you can always travel but unless you are in the south it's hard to run all the big events.

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Old Dec 29, 2013 | 01:12 AM
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I'm in north fl so I got Bradenton and SGMP. So radial racing wouldn't be a problem. I was really hoping x235 would work its way to the south. I really like the way it looks. Maybe in the next few years it will spread. I was mainly curious what everybody else does. Thanks for all the input.
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Originally Posted by owentm3
I here that a lot and see it. But I like a good challenge. I'm thinking maybe and ultra/ultimate street car with some street manners and just class fill in a few races a year and see where it goes..if I don't like it I still got a not so hacked up street car.
I know it's not drag racing, but if you're looking to keep good street manners, would you consider competing in events at Daytona and Sebring?

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That looks like it would be a lot of fun. I've never been around that before. I grew up around drag racing. But one day I may look into that its a bit out of the norm for me though. Thanks for sharing you may have sparked a future interest.
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I've run some local 275 stuff but will be running Ultimate/Ultra Street this year.
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My plan is ultimate/ultra street. I love small tire racing and it fits the bill a little more than x275. I've thrown around the idea of an index car but I think I'm going small tire.
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