All major event s/ss winners undrgo tech inspection

[Peter Ash]

Is there still the rule of protest against a potential non legal car? Why not inform the rule stretchers of your potential protest and allow them to comply or back out gracefully? Or would that create a threatening situation within the big happy family and empty the field?

Just asking!


Peter Ash

[Bobby Fazio]

Chad I think you are on to something.. but I agree with Billy, the cheaters will simply stay out of the top 10. Why don't they go back to at the very least putting that cool orange paint on your carburetor like they did when I was a kid? Also, maybe NHRA could go out and find some retired racers who know the ins and outs of the old combos?

[tj310]

I thought the Big go at Great Bend was to eliminate the Heaters. Any heads up winner should be inspected. -Trevor

[danny waters sr]

I think you should have your engine sealed when entering a race.
Once engine is sealed the seal cannot be removed without a tear-down, except for a carb change and the carb should be inspected at this time and re-sealed.
As far as the engine seal goes ,once it is sealed it can be checked at random for any given race and should be told this. If seal has been broken before actual tear-down then it is considered to have been illegal in the first place and should be DQ'd on the spot.
The DQ time will be determined on how many races was run before actual tear-down.
If you know your engine is legal then you should not have a problem with this system.
If you want to make changes before you have been torn down then you still must go through tear=down. Say you went to 4 races before you actually got torn down and you were foung illegal, then the penalty should be 4 races and then come back and torn down before you race and get a diff (certain) color seal showing you have been torn down,.
Also let that seal be good for the rest of the season.

In IHRA ,we have gone to the engine builder's shops and checked engines. After engine was approved it was sealed on the spot and was good for the current year.And has to be torn down again for the next year......Kind of like a chassis cert,but a little diff.

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

I think you should have your engine sealed when entering a race.
Once engine is sealed the seal cannot be removed without a tear-down, except for a carb change and the carb should be inspected at this time and re-sealed.
As far as the engine seal goes ,once it is sealed it can be checked at random for any given race and should be told this. If seal has been broken before actual tear-down then it is considered to have been illegal in the first place and should be DQ'd on the spot.
The DQ time will be determined on how many races was run before actual tear-down.
If you know your engine is legal then you should not have a problem with this system.
If you want to make changes before you have been torn down then you still must go through tear=down. Say you went to 4 races before you actually got torn down and you were foung illegal, then the penalty should be 4 races and then come back and torn down before you race and get a diff (certain) color seal showing you have been torn down,.
Also let that seal be good for the rest of the season.

In IHRA ,we have gone to the engine builder's shops and checked engines. After engine was approved it was sealed on the spot and was good for the current year.And has to be torn down again for the next year......Kind of like a chassis cert,but a little diff.

I have had my engine sealed within the last year, forget where, probably the sports nationals. If you are saying to paint the carb, intake, and a head bolt, that's not a bad idea

[Mike Taylor 3601]

I like the way IHRA does teardown now before record run,that way car is making record attempt it has already been verified it's legal.
If I was wanting to be sure I had all legal field of cars I would change to all cars had to be verified legal before being allowed to race,then seal engine and as long as seal is'nt broken you're good.
Mike Taylor

[fredjohnston]

Originally Posted by danny waters sr

I think you should have your engine sealed when entering a race.
Once engine is sealed the seal cannot be removed without a tear-down, except for a carb change and the carb should be inspected at this time and re-sealed.
As far as the engine seal goes ,once it is sealed it can be checked at random for any given race and should be told this. If seal has been broken before actual tear-down then it is considered to have been illegal in the first place and should be DQ'd on the spot.
The DQ time will be determined on how many races was run before actual tear-down.
If you know your engine is legal then you should not have a problem with this system.
If you want to make changes before you have been torn down then you still must go through tear=down. Say you went to 4 races before you actually got torn down and you were foung illegal, then the penalty should be 4 races and then come back and torn down before you race and get a diff (certain) color seal showing you have been torn down,.
Also let that seal be good for the rest of the season.

In IHRA ,we have gone to the engine builder's shops and checked engines. After engine was approved it was sealed on the spot and was good for the current year.And has to be torn down again for the next year......Kind of like a chassis cert,but a little diff.

What happens when someone freshens up their motor or changes engines during the year???? This breaks the seal or in the case of an engine change, shows up with no seal at all.

[danny waters sr]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

What happens when someone freshens up their motor or changes engines during the year???? This breaks the seal or in the case of an engine change, shows up with no seal at all.

In those cases the engine should be checked before freshening to prove it was legal .
If you know you are to freshen it then have it checked before you freshen it.(you are going to tear it down anyway) , so do it at the track before you leave....
I know there will be diff situations as always.
These are just ideas anyway and some are good and some are debatable....at any rate it is better than doing nothing...and everyone has a sealed engine from the start knowing it could be torn down at any time and punished if wrong.

[NewHemi]

The way schedules are set up for most Stock and Super Stock races is that there is no time before the races to tear down.

We tore down before the record run attemp in Las Vegas because the way that race is set up, we weren't scheduled to run until very late in the day instead of the usual 8:00 am call to the lanes at every other race.

But more teardowns are indeed needed. We had one car that beat us for class, was running illegal, determined much later, and didnt get torn down at that race. That same car, running an illegal engine, got us several horsepower hits too.

David

The New Hemi Guy

[Jody Lang]

Is "seal" a real deterrent?

Couldn't anyone carry their own "seal" to do touch ups if needed?