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If you are in a position to put 75% of your salary into your racing you better get started ASAP...Find somebody with one of those 10/12K turn key cars (there are many many in CA with 360s...lots of good deals out there)...make the seller load you up with at least one extra wheel for each corner, all the used tires he has taking up space, 6 sets of gears, a couple extra shocks and some radius rods..make him take the car to the track and show you that it is indeed truly "Turn Key" and ready to race...let him race it, or hotlap it, or make him be your crew chief for one night....anybody who really wants to sell will be willing to show you that it is the quality they say it is.
At the salary you make, if you go the route of lightning sprint or something, that will be where you end up from now on. They are great cars, don't get me wrong, but once you start pouring money into a certain car it gets harder and harder to get rid of all your stuff and move into something else.
Run your whole first season on other guys used tires, put a decent baseline set-up in the car and leave it alone other than minor adjustments, and keep your eyes peeled for great deals on a wheel here and a shock there and a spare set of nerf bars here and some gears there..And don't worry about having a super huge trailer full of nice new shiny stuff..I go to the track with my sprintcar on a 16ft flatbed trailer, 4 spare rear wheels/tires, a spare front, a few extra shocks, gears, bolts, nuts...a set of radius rods and a front axle...a couple of 3 drawer toolboxes and 3 fuel jugs.....and not one time this year have I said to myself "Boy I wish I woulda brought a ______".....
SO if a sprintcar is where you want to be...get one..get one while you can put so much of your income into it, because one of these days you will look up and realize you have 2 kids, a mortgage, 6 insurance payments a month, etc etc etc... until then you can gradually upgrade your stuff and end up with a really good piece and plenty of spares to operate on.
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