Blog 19: Answer 2

1.  What is your EQ?

What are the best setups for a street/strip vehicle considering budget, performance, and drivability?

2.  What is your first answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The ultimate setup for a street/strip vehicle considering budget, performance, and drivability is a tube chassis, all carbon fiber body vehicle with an LS9, T56 trans, a quick change rear end, and 18” all aluminum billet wheels.

3.  What is your second answer? (In complete thesis statement format)
The cheapest set up for a street/strip vehicle considering budget, performance, and drivability is a run what you brung.

4.  List three reasons your answer is true with a real-world application for each.
Run what you brung means race what you is basically stock on your car. This is the cheapest because all it requires is buying a running vehicle. Different cars are going to perform differently but if you get a good handler then it can be raced. My examples of why this is true is because there are people who will come out to autocross and they had a group of completely stock cars. Drag racing also has a stock drag class. Road racing is a little different but they will have track days where anything is allowed.

5.  What printed source best supports your answer?
If I had to choose one, (RC 2) (S#4b) Service Manual: 1973 Chevrolet Light Duty Truck. Detroit: GMC, 1973. Print. This showed me kind of what my truck was capable stock.

6.  What other source supports your answer?
My personal experience has taught me a lot more then RC. Getting out in the real world and networking with many company's and many other racers has helped me a lot. Ive probably have 50 interview quality conversations but I don't go around recording everyone I speak with.

7.  Tie this together with a concluding thought.
My concluding thought is that my topic is just about out of research because it is very much more experience oriented and thats why you see the huge amount of hours I have put into my work.