Need advise on getting power to the ground

Having pitted on sprint cars for several years, but not lately, I can tell you this about them. They "idle" around 1700 to 2000 make power at 5500 to 8500 and drink alchohol by the 55 gal drum. Work really well in a 1200 lbs sprinter at WOT but how they would do in a 3000 lbs street car would be somewhat questionable. If you can get the motor for the right price and reduce the compression enough to run gas it would be pretty sweet but could be a lot of hassle. When we ran we changed filter every night, oil (12 qts) every 2 nights, ran the valves every night, new bearings every 10-12 nights. We also always ran our motor a little "fat" on the fuel as we were pretty low budget and couldn't afford a breakage.

just my .02