Drag racing...where to start

Here is my opinion. I literally grew up in racing. 2 days old sitting in the tower of the old Houston track. If you do not want to buy a car from someone that is already done and you want to build one look at it like this:

1. Build more car than you "think" you will ever run.
2. Even if you plan on foot braking a car for a while I would build a 4 link/strut car. You can get them to work very well foot braking and later down the road if you ever go to a trans. brake. It just takes some 4 link adjustments.
3. Start out slow and get to where you feel comfortable in the car and gradually grow your engine program so you do not jump so far that the change in speed scares you. Go look at my video of what kind of stuff can happen in a car you are getting used to in the thread I started yesterday.
4. Back to the first statement. If you build or buy a car and you go with the nicest car you can afford to begin with it will save you a lot of time, money and work later down the road. It takes a lot of all them to update a car to run faster as time goes on and its getting harder to find a good chassis shop/builder to do the work and it be right.

That should really be a good idea of a starting point. I can tell you it would be a whole lot cheaper for you to find a nice car already done that you can update or just clean up in the begining.