Cost to IMCA Stock Car Racing ... How much to get on track???
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- Everything you ever wanted to know about what it costs to get on the track in an IMCA Stock Car! We'll show you 2 budget levels, and hopefully cover everything required to get you out there in one of the fastest growing and most exciting classes in dirt track racing today!
Hello, I'm Charlie... a guy well past the age where you should jump in a stock car and go slide around on dirt, but when you've dreamt of doing this since you were a kid watching your uncle win races all over the Midwest in the 70's and 80's, you gotta give it a shot while you can. Did I mention I have no idea what I'm doing and not a good mechanic??? Join us as we chase a dream in the IMCA Stock Car division at our local Iowa & Wisconsin dirt tracks. Maybe we'll even visit some other tracks this summer too! Thanks so much for watching, and please subscribe to see our video updates! :-)
I went to my first race this past weekend in ark-la-tex speed way and I'm hooked.......
I run a 2006 homebuilt IMCA Stock Car in California and am still able to be pretty competitive. A good motor and set of shocks seems to be the most important things in these deals.
Nice!!! And rare... good to see any DIY racers at EVERY level! :-)
Jus found your channel. Looks like your all havin fun!
Been around Imca stockcars since mid 90's. Helped put together and finish many new chassis' after getn it back from builder.
Our team's driver had a guy give him his checkbook after we had been out of racing for 3-4 years.
Go get a stock car built if you want. I'll pay fir it.
It was 8-9 years ago we went and picked it up, he climbed in, started it and drove it on the trailer. Best of every thing. $51000....we all got a chuckle out of that. NOW THAT'S WHAT YOU CALL TURN KEY!
Yep!!! It can get real expensive real quick! ;-)
That in line with our Thunder Bombers, our biggest cost containment is the tires, retreads without grooving, siping, or needing. Restrictive engine rules, full size clutch and flywheel (we use Z28 style) 3 speed transmissions. However used cars still are being sold for 20k. We run considerably more races 28 is normal for a Saturday night track alone. We start mid March, race until mid November. That doesn’t count the few Friday tracks or special well paying races Ex The world short track championships at Charlotte.
Weather in our part of the country shortens things for sure. Our 2 local tracks probably average 10 to 15 races per year with rain outs and winter creeping in. Races in April / May and end of September / October around here can be COOOLD!!! :-)
I’m excited to see you run the falcon or
Brinn transmission 😂😂to this day I still stall it out rolling out of my pit lol
First time I drove one was last year, and yep... stalled about 5 times before I figured it out! Lol. ;-)
Hey Charlie, what editing software do you use? I like how you incorporate pictures and subtitles to the videos. Thanks in advance!
Adobe Premiere Pro! I honestly started the channel as a way to learn the software... I try to learn new editing techniques each week to get better with it.
@@oldguyhobbies3236 Awesome! Love that reasoning. I want to film my racing season here in North Carolina as a way to connect with my family in Minnesota. So I'll look into that software!
Nice!!! And another part of the reason I did this... make a time capsule for friends and family. GREAT reason to do all of this on your end! :-)
Man I am glad that I be an old gray beard guy now, that has race winning trophies that span 5 decades , over 2 hundred wins and every car class I raced I brought home from a junk yard. The first two cars I built I did it out on the gravel drive way in the cold and snow, Yup I won track champ with both of them cars. Times have changed and I wonder how many kids don't race because of that kind of budget needed to go race for 200 bucks a race. Thanks for the reality check, nice job
Nice career!!! :-) I remember those days with my dad & uncle... and yep, miss all of it!
Thank you ,was a blast. Keep digging Charlie, you are still doing it an living the dream@@oldguyhobbies3236
nice video 😁
I know a guy up here in northeastern Wisconsin who spent 60 grand on a new car. Pretty sad for a class that you could jump in for 10 if you wanted a good car.
It's all over the map for sure... some of it is a bit goofy but if ya' got it, go for it! No used cars if guys don't buy new. ;-)
Kaden Reynolds said in a podcast one time that he paid 50k for his Spaw stock car turnkey
Not a bit surprised... and Johnny makes one great race car!
Yes his prices are accurate if you know nothing about racing and have no tools or welding machine to build anything your self. I can build a complete roller imca/ump mod with a up to date chassis by copying a brand new car from a friend of mine who buys a new up to date chassis every year and lets me use his to build my own copy and jig so that way if he needs to re clip his we already have the huge setup from when it was new to re clip it out self. I can build a brand new 2024 imca/ump modified chassis from ground up to a complete roller ready for motor trans electronics seat weights gauges complete roller except for anything that isn't chassis related and including rear end fully built when I say complete roller with custom valved built shocks cause I have my own shock dyno and build my own shocks and my roller will cost me a grand total of 1300 dollars to build a up to date brand new 2024 shaw chassis for example or a any chassis for that matter. That's just the cost of materials. If you have time guys and invest into a welding machine and some thick metal and build a long straight steel table that has 1/2 inch thick plate steel across the top as the base/top for the chassis jig table and then take a old chassis or any chassis and put it on the table and build a jig around it then copy it by bending and welding the chassis you self you to can slowly build a car over a few years for the cost of a brand new chassis or roller you can have everything setup to build your own chassis for a life time and save alot of money in the long run. Spend the money on tools equipment and setup your shop correctly before buying a car and then build your own car it will save you tons of money plus you will know alot more about your car to where you can set it up your self easier and know everything about it and when it gets wrecked you can re clip it your self for the cost of a new clip of its a stock stub clip like a imca stock car pure stock or street stock or for the price of a new front clip from what ever manufacturer you used to copy the chassis or do like I do for full tube chassis cars build my own front clip and build two extra front clips and two extra rear clips while I'm building the chassis on the jig I built so I don't gotta make a clip when I need to re clip. Yes it's easier to buy a brand new chassis from a good chassis builder but you learn a lot and save alot ofkney buy copying a chassis builder chassis and building it yourself. I have done it with asphalt and dirt super latest, asphalt and dirt mods and asphalt and dirt super stocks street stocks and my asphalt super truck I copied a nice pro builder built chassis for my pro truck as well. I have saved hundreds of thousands of dollars buy building my own jig and chassis my self. And have won lots of races and even sold a few and those cars some are now 10-15 years old on asphalt of course and still running upfront against brand new up to date chassis in outlaw stock latemodels which basically a prolate model with an outlaw body and a 604 crate motor throughout a date to run as a super late model anymore but they're good enough to run in that class and then the pro truck I built is still running to this day and running up front and that chassis is 12 years old and I have a dirt modified chassis a shawl copy I built and it's going on 9 years old in the guys still running up front with it and it's only need to be replipped twice in its life I am proof that you can build a copy of a brand new 2024/2025 chassis of any race car you want and run up front with it it's not hard just takes a lot of work to build a jig and make sure your jig is square and level to the chassis then of course make sure you measure every bar exactly and just copy it. But if you don't know anybody that has a chassis you can really build your own chassis without having one next to you you just got to look up the blueprints for one and go from there and then once you get to know people then someone will let you borrow their chassis to copy off of or get an older like shawl or older chicks like three or four years old or even 10 years old and just get the updated front clip and rear clip and just reclip the car with a new clip that way the geometry is updated like everyone else's. But I can build a brand new race car from the ground up for $12,000 bucks of run up front with it and it'll just be like any other car out there that's a 30 40 $50,000 race car in the IMCA stock car class or a UMP mod or even INCA modifieds and I can build them for 12 13,000 race ready it'll be the exact same thing as an $80,000 race car $30,000 car it's all if you want to do the work all yourself and learn everything or have someone else build your car for you like an engine build or a chassis builder a shock builder transmission guy rear end guy etc The only thing I don't build is my engines everything else I do myself because the engines have to be very exact to run great and run up front and I trust my engine builder way more than I trust myself when it comes to a 10k dollar plus latemodel or modified engine. Now for a imca stock car or street stock or pure stock that is non crate motor I'll build the engine my self and run up front all year long with it.
Not runs Flow indicators 😅of gravity
..drips, yeah she looks like a runner.
How much do u charge to make 3 numbers for my car
When do you start racing down there?
What Jason said... what's your race schedule? Distance is the issue with you on the east coast.
Why say motor when it's called an engine? 🤔
I get it... electric motor, gasoline engine... but then again, Motorsports, Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and motor oil companies might disagree! ;-)
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Money has ruined the fun sport of stock car racing :(
It seems every class that tries to be "affordable" ... ends up with competition finding a way to increase costs.
Yep used to be junkyard cars junkyard engines and a good time