Here we go again with NHRA getting paid and not wanting to do their job. Membership and entry fees are just a couple of the many ways that NHRA gets their funding for employing people to do the checking and certifying of the "classes" that we race in. All NHRA wants is nothing more then a pretty car bracket race without any policing involved. This has been the trend since the valve spring rule change, which I beleive was the down fall of Stock to where we are now, bastardized modified product cars calling themselfs Stock. Just my point of view, but when I started running Stock in 1974, I had a bumper bolt missing because of my tow bar, I couldn't race until I got the proper bolt that belonged to the car before they allowed me to pass tech. That was pre registration tech.
Tear down was another whole world, you had better have everything correct with the OEM parts or just take it home.
Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock