Hos
I guess you aren't in the chase for the perfect attendance award up at Waynesfield, So why don't you load up and head south to the MMSA's two day race at Chandler and Haubstadt this weekend. It would be an excellent way to gauge your racing program. Sounds to me like you are concerned about those super trick $10,000.00 Ohio race motors. Last I checked and I did we don't have any of them racing with us right now. You might thoroughly enjoy your self.
The best way that I know of to kill a racing group is to allow racers to believe that they are getting beat by money instead of experience. If you look at the top 5 racing with you and you don't consider their engine package, do they share any other similarities. Do they have more experience in the seat than the other racers? Do they have a more experienced crew guiding them and setting up the car? Do they spend more money on set up parts like shocks, bars, springs? Do they spend more money buying new tires to race on? These are just a few things that wining racers do to win. If they take care of these things, they probably don't even need to wory too much about their engine package.
No matter if it is racing Go Karts, Mini Sprints, or 410 sprint cars there is a lot more to wining than the motor.
Our little motors left the factory in a state of tune only rivaled by Indy Cars and Formula I race cars.. They did not leave a lot of room for improvement. That $10,000.00 might buy 10 or so more horsepower. Not enough to overcome a lousy set up or driver, but at the expense of reliability.
Kawasaki just came out with the ZX10rr H-2. A 1000cc supercharged motor to set a new mark in the Motorcycle Horsepower Race. They could not get any more Horsepower out of their 1000cc motor with trick cams, bigger valves, bigger ports etc. The stuff that the engine guys charge so much money for. There is just nothing more to do to one of these motors to get more power out of them without turning them into hand grenades.
It seems that the huffer will do two things, improve the breathing ability of the motor (lots more power) and allows them to drop the rev limit way down to improve reliability.
The same type of people running up front at Waynesfield will be running up front in the 305 sprint cars.
Honest Dad himself
PS check with Andy about gas money.