TQ29m
(Online)
#26
7/31/09 3:57 PM
Am I the only one,who remembers the Sprint car class, that may have ran Bloomington a few times, in the early 90's? Best I can remember, the engine was a carbureted, basically stock, 350cu in, no FI, stock ign, just put a stock motor, more or less, with a carb on it, in a Sprint car chassis, and Bingo, you got a lo-buck Sprint car class. Did well, till they tried racing them, seems they didn't turn real well, plenty of straight away speed, but horribly under powered in the turns, kept the tow truck operator busy, hauling them off the track. Might have been a better choice to have allowed FI, or something other than a Rochester 4bbl carb. Oh well, nothing is easy, and all hobbies are/get expensive. Several times, at Dayton's auction, I saw several, "old" Sprint car chassis, loaded/stacked on open trailers,and doubled on pickups, bought for less that the old tires were worth, so one night I asked, and they said they put 4 cylinder "crate", junk yard motors in them, and rented them out to wannbe racers. What can I say, they were smilin when they left Indy, headed SW! Bob
"Being old, isn't half as much fun, as getting there"! Ole Robert I!
