Damn that thing is badass!
all i can say for chris and brains AIX cars this pass weekend that they are sick fast. pass us AI car on the back stretch like we are not moving.
Also, this is probably the only yellow blaze Boss 302 race car (conversion) there is.
Nice work , it's nice to see someone besides Multimatic can put a cage in one.
"Its definitely not about HP"
Darren - the reason behind the power gap as I see it is simply because of what people wanted the classes to be.
CMC - almost completely stock cars. Cheapest way to go racing. Allow some very basic changes in order to keep the different cars "equal".
Spec Iron - an offshoot of CMC that is supposed to be the cheapest, easiest way to race a 4.6L S197 Mustang since the stock chassis was that much better than previous CMC cars. Before this class, you actually had to run smaller tires (and some other stuff) to slow down the S197 to make CMC competitive for the older cars in stock form.
AI - allow guys to make modifications but still keep cost relatively in check so that it doesn't come down to whoever has the most money wins.
AIX - where the big boys play, almost a run what ya brung class, where throwing a crap ton of money at a car has a pretty good chance of giving you a win, how fast can you really make a fox chassis go?!
There has been some debate about the cost of AI in the last couple of years because of guys showing up with $80,000 Ford Racing cars. As seen at this years Nationals though, the new expensive cars can be beat with older iron and good drivers. Why do you insist that you are going to run AIX instead of AI? Other than the power/weight, why isn't your car AI legal?
The AIX field isn't meant to be filled with 8-10 cars. It's there to give the guys that wanna road race 1200 hp a place to go, it's an accepted class and it's not gonna change. I understand you're thinking but that's why there is AI.
18x9.5s all around, toyo RRs and a 9.5:1 power to weight ratio. Good group of guys racing pony cars. There's always places to remove weight you just have to search for it. Turn the wick down on the motor and it'll last longer too. I don't see much else on the car that's not AI legal. It might be too pretty but that's all I see.
It's a crazy gap between the two. A few years ago when the championship was at mid ohio CG was running times faster than Daytona prototypes.
When I first started racing agent47 was doing their AIX outlaw series which I liked the concept of. It was similar to ST where tires and mods carried points, more mods =less hp.
Even they have come back to racing under the AI rules.