In any genre of competition, studying the guide lines high and low and continually pushing the envelope in new and innovative ways is always key to finding the winning advantage over your challengers. In the sport of drag racing, even in an arena with regulations as solid as those in X275, opportunities for advantages exist. It’s just a matter of figuring out what others haven’t and having the hands-on skill set to put your theory to work.

Brian Goss has been one of the biggest hitters in the 275 game for some years now, and this offseason began constructing a new ride for battle in X275. Images of the build posted on the web have stirred up a bit of a hornet’s nest, however. Not quite to the backlash that Paul Majors’ Corvette received a few years back, but a conversation piece nonetheless.

Goss has built a complete 25.3 spec chassis, and removed the floor of the Fox-body Mustang he is said to have purchased from a pasture and dropped the body down onto the chassis; similar to the way a modern NMRA Super Street Outlaw car is built. The 25.3 chassis offers added safety enhancements over other 25.2 and 25.5 cars in the class, and because the body and chassis began as separate parts, the chassis assembly was much easier and could then be powdercoated. Goss and others have pointed out that the method with which he has constructed the car provides no performance advantages over other cars and X275 honcho John Sears has indicated the car is completely legal for the class in 2011. Still others are looking at the car as the beginning of the “Outlaw-ification” of X275, complete with the rising costs that would accompany it.

Goss’ new machine will receive motivation from a 417 cubic inch small block sporting C3 Yates cylinder heads with a ProCharger F1R and gear drive feeding though an air-to-water intercooler and transferring through an 8″ torque converter.

Truth be told, if no one had ever seen the way the car was constructed, its unlikely it would’ve ever been questioned. But the cat is out of the bag, and it’ll be interesting to see how the car turns out and whether it plays any role in the design of future X275 projects.