10's on $5,000 ?

Hold off on spending a thing on it until you have played with it a bit.
Your buddy's will make it look easy by applying what they know in there class cars. Believe me you come from a come from a completely different place.
I agree, the whole truck "ET" thing will be new to me. I've tinkered with them a little, but nothing like we are trying to do with this one. We'll crawl before we walk, and walk before we run. As I mentioned before, I do have a track guy that's been racing these for about 30 years. But again, his are pure drag, not street. Big difference. Where ever it takes us, it should be a blast!