Guys, I don't foresee ever being able to afford to head out to Bonneville (to compete anyways), with the time off work, towing out ect? As I'm in Michigan. I have not been to any landspeed event, so am unfamiliar with most aspects of this kind of racing..I'd say that my "priority" is to have a lakester type of midget, basically a stretched out midget with my old midget engine( 166 C.I. 60 degree Chevy V-6 with Potter heads from the late 80's -mid 90's era), with midget axles. I haven't figured out a transmission yet. I hope to be far under that 2000 lb. mentioned, although I guess we'll see... I don't have a problem with 4 wheel brakes, I'll just have to design that into the build. One thing I have going against me is a thing that has followed me throughout my other endeavors is that I'm tall and wide at the shoulders (better built for football than for race driving but hey what can I do haha).
Anyways its nice to have conversation with peeps on this subject as my other racing friends kind of give the deer in the headlights look whenever not talking of "their" kind of racing?.