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Can a Mopar be built to run up front? If so, what combo would it take? I know alot of money.

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Can a Mopar be built to run up front? If so, what combo would it take? I know alot of money.

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I tried to pm u back but ur in box is full

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Fixed it!!!!!!

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x275 record was reset this weekend 4.785 by kevin neal like i mentioned earlier.

i think if anyone wants to even begin to guess what it takes to run this class, they should come to the race in february at sgmp so you can see it for yourself

my car makes a whole bunch of power, and i look at these guys who also make a TON of power and they really have to lean on those bad a$$ rides to run those numbers. its not the same as watching big tire bracket cars run those same numbers!



hey, heads up, congrats on getting that blue camaro figured out. i watched that car make great strides this weekend

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UHHH I'm starting to hate that car as much as mine. We had a bad miss/popping problem and thought we had it fixed and got there thursday and still had it. So we checked everything and threw a ton of parts on it and one of them fixed it. The biggest thing we are trying to do is get the car to repeat now. We went the 5.00 with a very soft tune-up and got in the top 32 race in the heat sat, and pulled to the starting line twice with the same tune-up on Sat nite just 1 click tighter on front shocks on a track that was leaps and bounds better and smoke the tires in .04. Sunday same tune-up as when we went 5.00, same car set-up, track temp within 5 deg. and air 200 ft difference and smoke the tires. It just makes you wanna pull your hair out. But its all good, we will figure it out.

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Most if not all X275 are 1/8th mile. The nitrous cars can keep up with the turbo cars if not do better.

In fact I get a daily report from the last 2 weeks of X275 racing from my co-worker that keeps up with that class and he's telling me that Nitrous is taking the wins and the Records.

4.7's in the 1/8th best I have heard him mention so far the last 2 weeks.

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Honestly I do not think the rules are good for a nitrous bb mopar. I may be wrong but a nice conventional chevy compared to b-1's is hard to beat with b1's.
Second a nitrous motor sb will be hard if it is sitting in a mopar body due to weight and how light the car can get. I will wait to see what steven can come up with in his new ride to see what weight he can get it too with the sb.

Blower and turbo seems to be the easier choice for mopars due to how much weight penalty they carry.
I have said it before and will again a blower or turbo motor can make as much as any other brand in the right hands. I would have a mopar motor if I had not already had the ford from the start. I have bought a block that is mopar for next year but not sure if i will have the time to get it done before feb.

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Honestly I do not think the rules are good for a nitrous bb mopar. I may be wrong but a nice conventional chevy compared to b-1's is hard to beat with b1's.
Second a nitrous motor sb will be hard if it is sitting in a mopar body due to weight and how light the car can get. I will wait to see what steven can come up with in his new ride to see what weight he can get it too with the sb.

Blower and turbo seems to be the easier choice for mopars due to how much weight penalty they carry.
I have said it before and will again a blower or turbo motor can make as much as any other brand in the right hands. I would have a mopar motor if I had not already had the ford from the start. I have bought a block that is mopar for next year but not sure if i will have the time to get it done before feb.

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I think they may give the sb nitrous a 50-100lb break and take off 50 for ladder bars. IMO I have not heard anything this is just my opinion. And if they do that how much weight do you think you could have to play with steven?

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Chad, what does your Dart weigh? I think with a maximum lightening effort a 67-69 Dart can get pretty light with a all aluminum nitrous engine. I still would like to attempt a GenIII Hemi with a turbo in a new Challenger. The Hemi is light, can make good power I just worry about 4 heads bolts. I may just say f'it and screw one together.

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Chad, what does your Dart weigh? I think with a maximum lightening effort a 67-69 Dart can get pretty light with a all aluminum nitrous engine. I still would like to attempt a GenIII Hemi with a turbo in a new Challenger. The Hemi is light, can make good power I just worry about 4 heads bolts. I may just say f'it and screw one together.

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well the biggest thing is sealing up the heads so it may be taking a chance but only one way to know. I do not know how much my car would weigh without any lead in it. I have always had to add so much I have never even counted all the lead bricks and some of them are different. I just scale it and move the 10 bricks of the same weight around to get what I want.

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Hehe, yeah I guess with the turbo you'd have to add a boatload unless you were a fata$$ like me

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I will admit I don't know the 275 & X275 rules but if they allow a round tube backhalf car that's the only way I see getting even an A-Body light enough. The Dart Donald & I run has stock frame rails front to rear, basic 6 points of cage are mild steel balance is moly, ladder bars, Bob's Pro Fab front end, 5 gal fuel cell, one 16V battery, 1 10# n2o bottle, 2 Kirkey sets, Spaghetti Menders wiring, fiberglass hood, bumpers, doors & deck lid, lexan side windows, quarter glass & rear window, R3/W8 w/ Liberty 5 speed. It weighed right at 3000# with Donald race ready.

We may go to fiberglass front fenders and a lexan windshield while rebuilding from the fire but I don't where can find anymore weight to remove.

Not saying it couldn't be done but someone would have to spend a major amount of money for very little return. In my younger days If I would have had the resources I do now I probably would try to built a competitive car but the older I get I just don't see spending the $.

Mike Gray

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