IHRA Pure Stock

[ALMACK]

Originally Posted by Tod Lane

Ohio valley?

Unfortunately, Ohio Valley is not Pure Stock friendly.
I found that out yesterday straight from the track manager.
IHRA Stock GT racers are SOL as well.

The only IHRA Stockers they allow are crate motor.


That only leaves 2 races for me this year. London and Mt. Parkway.

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by ALMACK

Unfortunately, Ohio Valley is not Pure Stock friendly.
I found that out yesterday straight from the track manager.
IHRA Stock GT racers are SOL as well.

The only IHRA Stockers they allow are crate motor.


That only leaves 2 races for me this year. London and Mt. Parkway.

I guess somewhat understandably. Probably more than a few guys don't want to be embarrassed by having their 50-100k Stocker or Super Stocker beaten by a dime rocket. Don't know why they dis the GT stockers. Most of those aren't cheap to build and there probably aren't a dozen of them in the whole country.

This deal wasn't as lucrative as we initially thought. The old car was pretty rough. Already have two setting in the garage that need to be finished. At present, don't need another money pit. Maybe if something else popped up down the road, I'd still be interested in trying to put something together for this class. Looks like the only place to run it would be an IHRA points meet or National.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by ALMACK

Unfortunately, Ohio Valley is not Pure Stock friendly.
I found that out yesterday straight from the track manager.
IHRA Stock GT racers are SOL as well.

The only IHRA Stockers they allow are crate motor.


That only leaves 2 races for me this year. London and Mt. Parkway.

It sounds like the tech guys at Ohio Valley are to uninformed or dont know how to tech a pure stock car unless they hire someone good likeTravis Miller......Now he could bust some balls.....LOL. Why do you think NHRA stopped checking cam duration, overlap and valve spring pressures back around 1985 ! Not only that they might have to get down on the ground to check for the correct transmission.

[Chris1529]

why do they allow Crate Motor Stockers at Ohio Valley and not allow GT or pure stock? They are alot closer to stock than the crate motor cars.

[J Gower]

Chris, you need to race at a Ohio Valley combo one time and you would see the reason behind it all. J. Gower O/S 3058

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by J Gower

Chris, you need to race at a Ohio Valley combo one time and you would see the reason behind it all. J. Gower O/S 3058

I sincerely hope no one thinks I'm disrespecting Ohio Valleys Combo races. Quite the contrary, I've been to a few as a spectator. One day, IF, I ever get my crate stocker built. I hope they'll let me come play in the sandbox.

Like Al Macklin, I didn't realise the GT and Pure stocks weren't allowed? I have seen them allow IHRA SS/Production cars. I too, was under the assumption that ANY #HRA Stock or Super Stock combination was allowed. If I'm correct, Beech Bend only allows NHRA S/SS vehicles? With car counts being what they are today, be nice if places would reconsider. If that's the rule, I can respect it.

[J Gower]

Robert, they haven't been drawing to many cars for their combo for what ever reason. They need to let all the classes run to get their car count up. Beech Bend has about 60 cars at most of their Combos, but you are talking 1/4 mile compared to1/8 mile racing. Some people don't like 1/8 mile racing and won't go to the Doorslammers when they have that race at the end of year. J. Gower O/S 3058

[ALMACK]

I was told by the track manager at OV the reason they have not run PS for several years was because there were too many complaints about the class. ( ???...from which group ??)

Now....I am picturing the scene back then as to why they complained and pretty much who was doing all the bitchin'.

However, since I wasn't there, I can only imagine the scene.


Sure would be nice if someone would try to organize a combo race for those that aren't invited to the party. LOL

[Mike Taylor 3601]

I did'nt know that I thought that IHRA class were ran unless they fit a NHRA class as example trucks had to run car classes FI classes had to reg classes but thought pure stock, gt ,crate would run IHRA class.

I remember Tri State @hamilton,Oh used to have rainbow classic there combo you had to run 9.20 or faster in 1/8 to race in it.

Mike Taylor 3601