Budget drag car… B-Body or A-Body?

Not necessarily intending to break it on purpose. Just wanting to find the limit of a budget setup. I’ve raced high dollar small block strokers and some mildly modded stock stuff. I had just as much fun with a junkyard 360 as a 416 stroker. I also worried less about pushing it hard. I guess where I’m going here is that I’d like to play on the extreme cheap side to see how much fun I can really have. Why spend 30k to enjoy the same fun for 5k. A little experiment if you will.
Gotcha. I had alot of fun in a stock 95 short box reg cab 5.2 truck I put about 100 passes in it, mid 14s & it pissed alot of people off because the truck & I were so consistent.