Crate Motor Class

[Lyn Smith]

Crate motor racers. Are you ready to get your runner volumes checked?

[Dick Butler]

If a crate motor has a series of specs and hp or cubic inch rule and can be teched the difference is????
Modified SS cars are how different from SS cars and GT cars?

[Joey Bohannon]

Get over it folks, 97% of the time we are all bracket racers.

Originally Posted by Joey Bohannon

Get over it folks, 97% of the time we are all bracket racers.

Your point?

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Joey Bohannon

Get over it folks, 97% of the time we are all bracket racers.

Big Difference

We have to build a car that requires thinking and tuning the whole
Vehicle to qualify.
Then built a competitive car to be consistent and reliable.
Just cannot throw stuff together.

What is cool about stock are the odd combinations.
A U/SA Ford is in the 12's today. In the 80's that was O/SA territory.
Stock thrives because of racers figuring out how to make thier ride fast.
With what it came with under the hood.

Aside that we are handicapped by class.
That is the only similarity to Racket Racing.
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[Jeff Niceswanger]

Originally Posted by Joey Bohannon

Get over it folks, 97% of the time we are all bracket racers.

And the other 3 % is why 97 % of us race this class in the first place .....

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

And the other 3 % is why 97 % of us race this class in the first place .....

Yes!!

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Yes!!

Not only is it the Heads up racing that helped define our Class Racing.
There is also who became Number one qualifier.
Class Racing has bragging rights...such as setting a National Record.

Our cars have something to measure against.
Our cars have to be more refined.
Limited on what we can do to go fast.
Yet need brains and wit to do it.
Plus the huge variety of combinations that Bracket Racers would never consider.

Bracket Racing is fun....but having a Stocker is Funner!...

I think IHRA is brilliant trying to think outside the box.
Crate Motor class has brought back a host of cool cars.
Especially car with harder to find engines.

Wish there was a version of Pure Stock that could use Crate Engines.
Using same Pure Stock Rules, identify a set of approved engines.
Especially ones that exist and bolt in.

Stock Rocks.

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[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Jeff Niceswanger

And the other 3 % is why 97 % of us race this class in the first place .....

Exactly.

And a lot of us want more performance incentives added, such as class contested at every event, as well as real points and real money paid for winning class and qualifying well. The balance is off, and it can be adjusted to be improved.

[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

Exactly.

And a lot of us want more performance incentives added, such as class contested at every event, as well as real points and real money paid for winning class and qualifying well. The balance is off, and it can be adjusted to be improved.

Look at my proposal to Nhra. Probably back on page 18 by now.....
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