Download or read book Drag Racing 101 - From Building Your First Race Car to Securing Sponsors written by Ike Heckler Jr and published by IH Racing. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything you wanted to know about the exciting world of drag racing !! The NHRA, NMCA, PINKS ALL OUT, building your race car, rule books, race classes, tow vehicles, trailers, components of a run, heads-up racing, index racing, bracket racing. Plus funding your operation, securing sponsorship, and getting magazine and TV coverage !! The author also takes you on a visual journey showing the various builds of his '67 Pontiac LeMans with assembly pictures that show with time slips how the car evolved from 16 secs in 1994 to a 14 sec bracket car in 2005 all the way to a 10 sec all-out race car in 2009 !! This 88 page book has over 85 color assembly pictures of: engines, fuel system, exhaust, rollbar, seats, and suspension, we also include sponsor artwork getting applied and some other fun pictures. If you are building a drag race car, these pictures will save you hours of aggravation and prevent many $$$$ of re-work or the wrong parts."For those of you interested in reading how Ike put together his race car, made improvements and has maintained his team, this will be a good read....."David Harris - SPEED TV