Originally Posted by
Lt.Stryker
W2Racing09 - You've received some good advice to this point. You can be competitive with a 602 in a field of stock 604s if your car is set up correctly and you're racing on a dry slick track. In FASTRAK the 602s only have to weigh 2150 lbs and you get an additional 25 lbs weight break for using a Han's (or similar) device where as the 604s must weight 2400 lbs. The 250 lbs delta between the two makes a big difference and affects your percentages and setup, but the challenge is to get you car that light to capitalize on the weight break advantage. You can also find turn key crate lates for under $10,000. There's a guy out here (Mid Atlantic Region) that's selling a turnkey Rocket with a 602 for $6,000. There's another guy in this region selling an 05 Warrior roller for $3500 and then you can pick up a low lap 604 from the classified section on here for $4,000. You've got options and easily stay within your budget. You just have to look around and don't buy the first car that you see based solely on price. Asphalt is very different from dirt track racing in technique and application. I echo the comments above and recommend that you spend the money to attend one of the driving schools. I also advocate attending a chassis school. There's a pretty steep learning curve both with the four bar setup and driving techniques in a crate late. You don't want to either put your car in the wall or get run over while you are learning the nuances to your car as either case makes racing untenable. There's a lot of bum gouge out there and there are individual drivers out there who will purposely give you bad advice so they can maintain their racetrack advantage... Learn to drive your car... Learn the nuances of your car... Learn how to setup your car... Learn how your car reacts to macro and micro adjustments and don't allow your focus to be on what everyone else is doing. Good luck, welcome to our sport, and keep the rubber side down.