Converting a pavement dragster to a lakester?

[SPARKY]

This is just a way of saying "heads up"  this is a "sticky topic or subject matter"

[Tman]

Can someone unsticky my post? I didnt sticky it

Only a mod has that power and one of them decided the question had merit to stay at the top.

[Milwaukee Midget]

Im hoping to make it to the October or November meet.

Go for November - it's a two day meet, and you'll get more time to ask questions.

[penny]

A simple reason landspeed cars are built tougher than dragsters is that although there is nothing to hit on the salt but salt , sometimes the cars hit the salt 13 times or more .

[SPARKY]

   so true---the FEARED mush inducing "pencil roll"

[Milwaukee Midget]

No longer sticky.

Seems I have a goo-gone button . . .

[SPARKY]

 

[Richard 2]

Frankie, Take the dragster apart build a LSR chassis by LSR rules and put the dragster parts on it. You will be money ahead.
Richard

[Frankie7799]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Thankfully I hadn't actually purchased another dragster to replace my stolen one ( it wasn't stolen recently ) I had just thought it would've been cheaper and easier to buy a used dragster and update some stuff to make it SCTA legal. Obviously being new to LSR I was informed that it wasn't gonna be the case. This just gives me the freedom and the experience of building a LSR car from scratch if I dont find a used LSR car I can afford. As an open wheel drag racer for 10 years ( 23 t altered and rear engine dragster ) ill probably go.the lakester or.roadster route. Thanks again everybody for the input.

[Stainless1]

Frankie, come to the salt in October... hook up with Sparky, he is in your area.   Go the EM in October... Don't wait for the last chance to go, sometimes the last ones don't happen. 
In other words, get hooked early... avoid the rush... 
 

[Tman]

Thanks for all the replies everyone. Thankfully I hadn't actually purchased another dragster to replace my stolen one ( it wasn't stolen recently ) I had just thought it would've been cheaper and easier to buy a used dragster and update some stuff to make it SCTA legal. Obviously being new to LSR I was informed that it wasn't gonna be the case. This just gives me the freedom and the experience of building a LSR car from scratch if I dont find a used LSR car I can afford. As an open wheel drag racer for 10 years ( 23 t altered and rear engine dragster ) ill probably go.the lakester or.roadster route. Thanks again everybody for the input.

There are some killer buys in the classifieds right now.........might have been stated already.

[Frankie7799]

Stainless, I met Sparky for the first time yesterday. Was a cool hour and half conversation. Im not sure if Ill be able to afford to go up to the salt in October but El Mirage isnt out of the question for Oct. Maybe at Speedweek next year I can tag along with Sparky, that would be cool.

[JasonS]

I was talking to a friend at work and got on this very subject. I happened to have my Mark Williams catalog in my locker so I grabbed it and my ECTA rule book. We looked at the unwelded chassis kits, and the rear-engine dragster's wall thickness was below any of the class minimums. The funny car kit had tubes that would only be legal for J, K, and L engine classes, assuming of course the largest tube shown in the parts list was for the roll cage but it doesn't say.

[Stan Back]

. . . and those lower class specs are sure to go up as speeds increase.

[SPARKY]

I can speak from personal experience stiffer is better-  --nothing to do with hormones or phermones