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Originally Posted by sprintracer82
i dont know as though i would go into saying that a 305 would be the end all to big dollars. i looked into 305 racing and a new 305 was around $12000.
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It depends what the rules are, and the enforcement of those rules. I know some 305 tracks are more liberal on engine rules than others. At Doe Run Raceway in Missouri, there are even rules on valve size (1.94 intake/1.50 exhaust) and how much cam lift is allowed (.550). Yet tracks such as 34 Raceway in Burlington, IA or LA Racway in LaMonte, MO have slightly more open rules.
But regardless of rules, if one has to spend 12k for a motor in what is meant to be an "econo" class, well, it's not really "econo" any more.
So what does it cost to run up front in a 305? Well, Josh Worrell of Kirkwood, MO won the Doe Run Raceway track championship running a ten year old chassis haulded on an open trailer, and according to his dad, they only had $10k in the whole operation.
http://www.stlracing.com/forums/show...hlight=sprints
To me, the 305 class is meant for a specific type of racer, and for a specific type of track. It provides the street stock/sportsman/B-mod/micro sprint type racer a wonderful oportunity to move up into a class with some glamour to it, yet still be able to make the mortgage and utility payments each month. The class also is a great fit for your underfunded rural type tracks, where running full blown sprints or LM's would punch the promoter a one-way express ticket to the poor house.
Granted, if you try to run 305's on a big half mile like Knoxville or Williams Grove where the fans are accustomed to seeing balls out 410's and 360's, the 305's are going to drive the fans to the beer stand. But go to some little isolated county fair 1/4 mile track where the fans rarely see anything more menacing than a claimer-IMCA modified, and their jaws are likely to drop when the so-called "limited" sprints come out.