blown drag cuda questions

[tubbs]

first, I want to thank Ron (am73grand) and MitchP for their continuing help with this project (yea, they don't know that yet).

I am doing a club build with a 70 cuda kit and want to do a full tube chassis blown motored cuda without going as far as a pro mod. I guess an outlaw pro street car, but I am having troubles coming up with the rules, what and what not to run. want to keep the body looking like a cuda, wing, ground affects front spoilers but no sectioning, shortening or narrowing of the body.

is there such a class? when I search Google, I come up with pro mod style cars. I will be using a funny car motor, bigger blower with a modern hat. probably the pro mod chassis modified to suit. would the car run air shifters or hand? will not be running nitrous, will I need a bigger fuel cell than a carbed motor?

I know I can build what I want, but I would like to follow some direction. a link to a build like this would be good. I will hit my favorite, Skinny Kid Racing, but if someone can direct me to another, that would be great.

thanks in advance,

Tubbs

[Snake45]

I say on a project of this nature, build it however you want and don't worry about "rules." It's not like you're going to have to enter it into an actual sanctioned competition of some kind.

[tubbs]

Snake, I think that is the way it will end up going.

[W-409]

In my opinion it's important to build a Drag Car that fits in a certain category, if possible. Usually it's actually quite easy if you don't have to replicate a real car.

I'd suggest you building the Plymouth as Competition Eliminator car. In that class you can run with different style cars as they go in different sub-categories, for example Pro Mod style cars and then Stock suspension cars can be found in that class. Pretty much everything would fit in Competition Eliminator.

Of course there are many different categories but Comp would be easy because you can run with pretty much everything there.

[tubbs]

thanks Niko. I am sure however I build it, there will be a class for it somewhere. but I would do much better if I had some guidelines. and it would keep the nit-picking down to a minimum..... I will do some googling tonight, thanks again.

[Fat Brian]

There is a class that is gaining some popularity in which you can run just about any motor you want but you have to run a 10.5 inch wide tire. It's meant to somewhat level the competition because the big motor guys just sit there smoking if the can't hook up. Most of the bodies in this class are stock or close to it since most cars can take 10.5s with just a mini tub.