Within Stock rules???

[bubski]

isn't this about stock ? the 69 amx with ported heads wasn't stock legal !!

[House of Darts]

Do you think that I can now get my '66"D" Dart back in to stock eliminator maybe at J or K?

[Allen Sherman]

Originally Posted by MikeMoller

Don't see a STEF's 7 quart pan on the approved list.

Stefs part number 1025 has been on the accepted list for about 2 years or more now. Listed under the s/b and LS accepted pans section...not being a jerk just giving some info, also moroso has part number 21151 on there which in my opinion is a nicer piece.

[Allen Sherman]

Originally Posted by Brian4992

The School built this engine 100% to the rules as we interpreted them. This specific engine was torn down at the 2015 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals. The engine passed tech. The tech guys did a very thorough job including;
intake port
exhaust port
chamber
valve head and stem size
bore and stroke
deck
gasket thickness
cam lift
lifter plunger travel
intake manifold and throttle body

-Brian

Quit bragging...lol...at least u didn't have to pull the engine out with a harbor freight cherry picker and take it apart on a dirty pallet from the back of Walmart like some of us did! lmao

[Tony Corley]

Originally Posted by Brian4992

The School built this engine 100% to the rules as we interpreted them. This specific engine was torn down at the 2015 Chevrolet Performance US Nationals. The engine passed tech. The tech guys did a very thorough job including;
intake port
exhaust port
chamber
valve head and stem size
bore and stroke
deck
gasket thickness
cam lift
lifter plunger travel
intake manifold and throttle body

-Brian

As I said... Smart guys that would pass tech. Discussion should now be over, lol

[Tony Corley]

Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland

For purely philosophical considerations, consider the following points.

• For a car-engine combination to be raced in NHRA “Stock” eliminator, they make the rules. Generally, it is assumed that the car has to be built by a manufacturer that is recognized by NHRA and that the specifications for the car and engine are provided to and accepted by the NHRA tech department. It is also assumed that eligible combinations are manufactured in sufficient quantity and available to the general public so that it fits some definition of being a “production” car. These assumptions are leftovers from the origins of the “Stock” category in the 1950s when the only cars were sold at dealerships and it was obvious what a “stock” car was and what it was not. Even then, however, there was some controversy with such models as the 1953-54 Hudson Jet with the Hornet twin-carb engine, the 1953 Buick Riviera, the 1957 Pontiac Bonneville with fuel injection, the 1955 Studebaker President Speedster and others. Fast forward to today’s selections and some of our purist assumptions simply don’t count. They make the rules and there is no external standard or prevailing authority to stand in judgment of what they say. All the decisions are made within the hallowed walls of NHRA and there is no scrutiny or oversight. Even looking at the “traditional” set of cars to be raced, there are enough exceptions, anomalies, and contradictions to show that the actual rule is “whatever that’s in the tech bulletins and class guides is what is legal”.
• Imagine you are racing Stock eliminator in the late 1970s. Out of the blue, Chevrolet decides to spec a production engine that is basically a Modified Production engine – 315 cu in, aluminum rods, ported cast iron heads, titanium valves, stud girdle, triple valve springs, roller camshaft, max compression ratio, 750 Holley carb on a single plane manifold – and stuff into a Monza car that has fiberglass fenders, hood and doors, a Dana 60 with ladder bars, a Doug Nash 5-speed transmission and back-halved with formed frame rails to fit 9x30 tires. Chevrolet says they are going to build 100 of them and sell them through their dealer network rated at 300 horsepower. Ford soon follows suit with a Pinto or Mustang II similarly equipped and then MoPar tops that with a race Hemi in a Colt or Arrow. Sound familiar?? Do you think that NHRA would have accepted those cars back then? Sure they would!! What’s the difference with that and what was allowed in the 1963-1969 era? And they even accepted a car with ported heads and had no specs for them (1969 SS/C AMX). Today is another one of those eras with the factory cars. Time and effort will force all these exceptions together, just as they have over the years.
• So, is that COPO engine legal with its max block, ported heads, etc. etc. etc.? If NHRA says so, it is. You may not like it when you struggle to pass tech with your traditional stocker, but they make the rules.
• It is surprising to see the righteous response to machining intake (or exhaust) surfaces of the heads to reduce the port volume so they can pass tech. That practice has been going on since the first days of recorded port volumes. That is the basis of the standards applied to the SS/AH engines and the requirement to not machine past the valve cover studs. Heck, when Chevrolet re-released the 291 cast iron BB head in the late 1980s, the exhaust ports in the new heads were too large for the current spec so before somebody petitioned to get the spec changed we would machine the exhaust surface back to meet the specs (and angle mill to reduce the length of the port roof!).

Great post! Worth quoting to be read again!

[Dwight Southerland]

Originally Posted by bubski

isn't this about stock ? the 69 amx with ported heads wasn't stock legal !!

From 1969 until now, it was the only ported head allowed from the factory. No other engines had ported heads in 1969. The only reason it wasn't allowed in Stock eliminator is politics. What's the difference between those cars and the Thunderbolts or race hemis that are allowed now?

[Erik Jones]

Come on guys...HAHAH.......I didn't read anything in that article that wasn't being done 10 years ago!!!

The Question i have is..441 inches 14:1, 390 CFM, Roller Cam, EFI with a tunnel ram that only makes 825? whats wrong with it... Give it to a real "Stocker" Engine builder!

This article is ridiculous and is glorifying someone who is riding the coat tails of Stocker racers who have been doing this 15 years before i was born...
Its not worth the paper it was printed on!

[Mike Keener]

Erik....

What kind of medication are you taking?

[mtkawboy]

Like they would tell you what HP the engine really made