Scott, you are like the rest of us that had little money about the same on experiance, but very long on desire and what I call McGyverism, mean you can get something figured out and done while most others are still scratching there heads and whatever else, I myself spent many years at the drags with verious vehicals bikes, door cars, the last being a Alcohol Dragster, many parts nessessary to keep this stuff on the track was got through trades, doing machine shop work at night, what is boils down to is like yourself, I would not have got past my first nitrous fire if I had to pay up front, for everything, and you are also right in it was a very expensive education that would be near impossable for someone to teach, sadly now being older, and still having to work a fulltime job, I have little ambition to get to the track anymore, I would really like to take the bike to a meet and turn it loose, if for nothing else except to get that 200 MPH hat and jacket
, but I'm afraid I'd really like it and I cannot afford to get started up in something like that again, maybe if the lottery would tip in my favor, I'd be there on the line with 600HP ready to get-r-done, ......you keep the shine side up........and lastly although I never met him very sorry to here about Sam Wheeler.....