Originally Posted by Randall Klein (Post 494442)

Question: with all these alphabet soup classes, how do they handle class runoffs with single cars nowadays?

Originally Posted by Jeff Teuton (Post 494950)

New body (08 up) with matching motor FSS/something. New Body old motor FGT/something. New motor old body FGT/something New body/new motor/different years FGT/something. Smaller the motor, the more screwin you get because there is no stick/auto in the FSS and FGT arena and NHRA used the stick factor and in the lower FSS and FGT classes, the difference is as much as .25 and that's a lot. If you goin that way, use the new high horsepower stuff. Using an old motor in a new car probably won't work well. This applies to DP, Copo and CJ bodies/engines. Showroom stuff is SS and GT.

Originally Posted by ALMACK (Post 495027)

? ?
I would have thought a new body with an old carbed engine would put it in the regular SS/GT classes.
I was thinking the engine is what dictated which group it runs in.

Originally Posted by BBF67 (Post 495037)

Any engine OR body that is used for GT classes and is a 2008 or newer COPO, Cobrajet, or Drag Pac must run Factory/GT. The reason I was told is because the engines are not sold as street legal. The bodies use a lighter shipping weight, have different hoods, and are not sold as street legal.

It is possible to run regular SS/GT with a 2008 or newer non COPO, Cobrajet, or Drag Pac body that started life as a regular (read as heavier) street legal car and is in the NHRA classguide.

At least that was the way it was explained to me by tech.