Bring back super/mod...

[randy wilson]

People want to here a certain amount of RPM. Maybe, 6.20, and 31in. tall tire. Possibly have a spec tire with heads, and possibly a spec gear. Slapper bars are out my friends. Most cars of that era have been backhalfed.

[killintime6968]

I love the high rpm smallblocks banging gears as i have 6.50 gears and 32" tires in my old modified car and it still hooks good with its ladder bar leaf suspension. Evan still have a old liberty geared hemi 4spd that was in the car in the early 70s

[Dick Butler]

Randy, Did you post the total package your track ran , cu in heads chassis etc?

[Michael Colaluca]

I think that a lb per cubic inch rule would work a lot better than a limit on the ci. That way you can allow for big blocks to come into the equation, this the possibility to have even more cars into the equation.

I love the idea. I have a 70 Dart I was building to run SS Modified, but this would be more fun by a long shot!

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by Michael Colaluca

I think that a lb per cubic inch rule would work a lot better than a limit on the ci. That way you can allow for big blocks to come into the equation, this the possibility to have even more cars into the equation.

I love the idea. I have a 70 Dart I was building to run SS Modified, but this would be more fun by a long shot!

I believe adding big blocks to the class would add complexity and additional costs, therefore, it should be small blocks only in the same fashion as Pro Stock trucks used to be.

[Michael Colaluca]

I could see that. Was just an idea I had to allow more of the sitting and/or bracket cars to move into the class with ease, thus having a higher car count. The complexity would obviously go up, but that is going to happen with higher car counts.

If this class would ever get off the ground I would jump in with both feet, whichever path it would go down!

[randy wilson]

No Dick, we had a lengthy couple of pages. Will try to see how to post without typing it all. I think I can answer most questions from memory, so shoot. We also had a minimum weight for each pound per C.I. Safety was the same as NHRA, with the exception, they didn't need to get new belts and net every 2 years. If it looked safe, our insurance was fine with it.

[randy wilson]

We actually had 4 lower class cars called stock, modified stock, stock option, and hot stock. At the end of the year, they would run their own top eliminator shootout, based on performance indexes. No lower class car ever had to spot an upper class car, regardless of ET. It was a first to the line wins. The upper class cars started with C11.5 C11, C10.5, C10, C9.5, C9, C8.5. C8, C7.5, C7, C6.5, C6, C5.5, C5, C4.5, C4. 1 tenth per half pound per C.I. We've had races decided by .0001 agaist a 5 pounder, and a 10.5 pounder. We ran .4 pro tree only in all classes, and probably didn't have 10 redlights, in 8 years. One night a year we gave out $100 to the best light, and most times it took a perfect .400 to win. We also had a hundred dollar bounty on any car who won class 3 weeks in a row. If he remained undefeated, he got the $100, if he got beat, the other guy collected the bounty. And for big blocks, we allowed a certain head from brodix, and they were getting competitive.

[Michael Colaluca]

Did you have a good participation in that class?

[randy wilson]

We had around 8 stockers, 6 modified stock, six stock option, and 9 hot stock until the hot stockers boycotted us. They boycotted us because they thouight the indexes were unfair. We had .03 between hotstock and stock option. If any car in any class hits there index in the lower classes, it affects all. Such as, a 10 lb. modified stock runs off a 7.40 , a 10 lb. stock option runs off a 7 flat, and a 10 lb hot stock runs off a 6.70. The closest any of these classes could get to was .2. So if a stock option car ran a 6.90, he hits all classes down a tenth, unless there was more then .2 between classes. It's not as complicated as I make it sound, and I was involved with cars in all 4 little classes to prove they could all run under these rules and be competitive. One night, between hot stock and stock, there were 9 cars within .07 of each other. In the upper classes, we had 4 dragsters, two 23 T's, one don ness camaro, a balkhalfed mustang, and falcon, three vegas, two wagons, a cobalt, 6 camaros, one being Ricky Ray's old car, a thunderbird from Bickel, an olds firenza, a 64 nova, and others that may come to mind. I've never seen a shootout decided by more then a .01.