Crate Motor Class

[Tod Lane]

Originally Posted by CrateCamaro

Finally someone who makes sense. Thanks Tod. U NHRA guys have no idea what a crate motor stocker is anyways. You Think its a motor that comes from GM that u plop in for 3500 bucks and go racing...WRONG. We go looking for castings and then build a bottom, run the same cams u guys run. WOW...we get to run any intake manifold that will fit under the hood. Big deal. If you had a 69 Camaro and say you blew up the engine way back in 76...it was a 300hp engine and it was totally destroyed. Now GM offers an engine that will run on unleaded, and make 300hp...would you not buy it for a replacement instead of buying proper casting for mega bucks?? Thats what the class basically is. Boys...we are rated at huge HP numbers and race really heavy....and don't tell me its fun to pull old heads off of rusty motors out in the woods that are rusted right into the earth. It took me and a friend 2 days to get a set of 041 heads off of a smashed impala...to find out that they were junk. Lots of fun.

Thanks Oddly enough I remember back when the NHRA bounced people for the wrong heater control knobs, literally, now you have 72 Novas masqurading as 69's and nobody whines. Or now we have front wheel drive conversions... but somehow a motor that has specifications from GM that can be checked just like any other combination is not acceptable?
Tod