What Stock rules would you change?

[Eric Merryfield]

Originally Posted by Alan Nyhus

While keeping the basic premise of 'Stock' and not morphing into Super Stockers, what Stock rules would you like to see changed?

Think about things that would make the cars easier to build, certain areas less costly, allow for a bit more experimentation and make the cars safer.

OK, I'll start:
- Relax the rules on oil pans
- Allow spacers, etc. between the carb(s) and intake

Bring back the pajama pants for all stockers under 135 mph. Comfort, fashion worth a good tenth in certain D-1 Novas

[CWhitney]

Real tech inspections at every race
All run fields
random pairings
15HP off early combos
no air shifters

[Dave Noll]

Originally Posted by Alan Nyhus

While keeping the basic premise of 'Stock' and not morphing into Super Stockers, what Stock rules would you like to see changed?

Think about things that would make the cars easier to build, certain areas less costly, allow for a bit more experimentation and make the cars safer.

OK, I'll start:
- Relax the rules on oil pans
- Allow spacers, etc. between the carb(s) and intake

I like relaxing the oil pan rule, carb spacers and 91 pump gas. The air the engine ingests still has to pass thru a stock carb and intake. Pump gas would be cheaper but might be harder to enforce. I ask the buyer at a oil & gas distributor what brand they used, his response was "whatever is cheapest", But I think that could be made to work. Roller lifters will make things easier but not cheaper, IMHO. They could make them stock lift roller cams. Yes stockers today are what Super stock was years ago but when have rules ever been rescinded? Yes its happened but its rare. These are race engines, we'll never "eliminate" breakage. We Can ease it though. I like qualified pairings. I get the idea behind lockup converters but I'm a No on this.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Dave Noll

Yes stockers today are what Super stock was years ago but when have rules ever been rescinded? Yes its happened but its rare.

UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH, 1973-4-5? (a little help here)
All of the Stockers became SSers and Stock Eliminator became "PURE" Stock.
Not really a fun time to have a Stocker.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH, 1973-4-5? (a little help here)
All of the Stockers became SSers and Stock Eliminator became "PURE" Stock.
Not really a fun time to have a Stocker.

That was 1972 when all that crap happened.

[Marty Knox]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

UUUUUGGGGGHHHHH, 1973-4-5? (a little help here)
All of the Stockers became SSers and Stock Eliminator became "PURE" Stock.
Not really a fun time to have a Stocker.

1972 was the first year the Pure Stocks became Stock and Super Stock expanded dramatically.
I ran a 65 Bel Air 4 door sedan with a 230 and a 3 speed in O/Stock.
Best time was a 17.6 at Island.

[Cbrinson47]

Originally Posted by billy nees

uuuuuggggghhhhh, 1973-4-5? (a little help here)
all of the stockers became ssers and stock eliminator became "pure" stock.
Not really a fun time to have a stocker.

1972

[MR DERBY CITY]

No rule changes, just ENFORCE the current ones....

[Cbrinson47]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

No rule changes, just ENFORCE the current ones....

I would love to see 1971 engine rules all over again so the damn engine would not cost $20,000 to $35,000 and you could run it all year !!!!!!!

[Larry Hill]

Seat belts have a five year life.