Crate Motor Class

[Crew Chief]

What are you guys gripping about? NHRA has Crate Motor classes. They just call them by a different name. They are called Factory Stock, Factory Super Stock and Factory Super Stock GT. The cars in those classes do NOT have production line street legal engines that you can drive off the showroom floor and be licensed. That's the way NHRA decided to have "Crate Motor" classes and with the number of cars showing up to race, it seems to be a huge success.

Wanna go "Crate Motor" racing at NHRA with your Chevy...stick a COPO engine in your Camaro. Same theory works for Mopar with a Drag Pac engine or a Cobrajet in your Ford. You will be racing in a "Crate Motor" class, just with a different name.

[SSGN]

[QUOTE=Crew Chief;538639]What are you guys gripping about? NHRA has Crate Motor classes. They just call them by a different name. They are called Factory Stock, Factory Super Stock and Factory Super Stock GT. The cars in those classes do NOT have production line street legal engines that you can drive off the showroom floor and be licensed. That's the way NHRA decided to have "Crate Motor" classes and with the number of cars showing up to race, it seems to be a huge success.

Wanna go "Crate Motor" racing at NHRA with your Chevy...stick a COPO engine in your Camaro. Same theory works for Mopar with a Drag Pac engine or a Cobrajet in your Ford. You will be racing in a "Crate Motor" class, just with a different name

NHRA just put a very expensive twist to its crate motor class. This is sad but true.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

What ever. Crate Motor, ET-2, same difference.

and soon, everyone will have Edelbrock intakes, roller cams and no teardowns.

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by SSDiv6

Can't wait for Alan Roehrich to put his favorite Meme picture...

LOL.


I've mellowed in my old age.

The changes to PS didn't bring in any cars and it hurt car counts. The recent schedule change will help them more than the flat hood, injection, RPM and wheelie bar ever did. I guess you want to do the same to an already cool class. Leave stock alone...

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Barry Polley

Leave stock alone...

That train left the station years ago.

[Bob Mulry]

I still don't get Crate Motor or the attraction to it......

If you build a POS slow Crate Motor racecar or you build a POS slow NHRA Stock Eliminator racecar there is no difference.....

Now understand what I mean by SLOW. SLOW is the performance vs. the racecars index.....

There would still have to be tech (that's if anybody gives a crap about legal racecars), so what is the advantage of a Crate Motor racecar????

If you don't build a good one ($$$$$$$$), in a heads up race you come in second...

OR

Is that part of the plan, to do away with heads-up??????

Just my 2 cents on again muddying the waters that we call NHRA Stock Eliminator....

Bob

PS:
I still don't get it...

[KEN BUGAJ]

POS crate motor cars ! There are a number of PK , Wiscarver, Pete Z , Plage,Sloan, car's out there. I wouldn't be so fast with the POS stuff.

[Bob Mulry]

Originally Posted by KEN BUGAJ

POS crate motor cars ! There are a number of PK , Wiscarver, Pete Z , Plage,Sloan, car's out there. I wouldn't be so fast with the POS stuff.

Obviously you didn't read my post or chose to only look at only one sentence...

I didn't say that Crate Motor cars are a POS.....

I said that IF you build a POS Crate Motor car or you build a POS Stock class car you will have a slow car.

If you want to build a fast Crate Motor or a fast Stock Eliminator car then have at it......

Fast = $$$$$$$$

No matter what you build......

So why build a fast ($$$$$) Crate Motor car and not a fast ($$$$$) Stock Eliminator car???????????????????

[Ed Wright]

Why would somebody build a car for a class that one Association does not support, then want that other group to add their class? Why not build a car that fits both places to begin with?