This is a great forum and I hope that this is a proper place for my initial post.
I have a car with which I want to run at Maxton next year. I would appreciate all suggestions and information that you might expect a newbie to this sport to need to know. This would include most importantly safety of course, and insuring that I'll also be compliant with all safety and other rules. I have the rule book already but will still have many questions I'm sure, as I prepare the car over the winter.
First a little about me. I have drag racing experience and a few years of oval racing experience and have run some auto-cross events, but this would be my first attempt at timed high speed runs.
The car is a '95 Corvette coupe with a 388 inch LT1 stroker, fully ported heads, 11:1 CR, all forged bottom end and other related mods one would expect to go with all of that. It's not radically built because it's also a daily driven street car and will remain so. It's roughly a 450 HP car. It currently has a professionally built (by R-D Racing) 4-point roll bar that I'll be adding forward bars to, as I want to make the car legal up to 175 MPH. It's 1.75" w/ .120" wall so I think I'm good there. I'll install a proper racing seat for events and I will need to update my helmet and harness to current standards. It has brake upgrades, engine cooling upgrades as well as engine oil and transmission oil cooling improvements. It's an automatic with O/D and has a 3.07 rear gear.
I haven't decided on a class yet, still wading through all of that confusion! The body is stock, the engine is obviously not. I won't be using nitrous. But of course the main emphasis at this point is to learn and do it right, not worry about records. I want to have fun and have me and my car in one piece when the day's over.
Any and all pointers re/ class, safety, preparation, driving and generally just what to expect would be very much appreciated so I'll be ready and can enjoy my first attempt. Thanks in advance.
Oh BTW, I have a Nomex suit with Nomex underwear, socks, gloves and a head sock. I assume this is at least adequate from what I've read so far, correct?