Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Didnt he get DQ'ed after the Championship year in the Buick for having pistons in the engine with a bunch of valve impressions on them from beating the valves against them thus allowing a little extra piston to valve clearance ? From what I remember and hearing they were pretty deep. But then....thats old news and it dosent count anymore. It was a long time ago.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Years ago it was legal as long as the engine did it not the machine shop. As per Gregg and Marty.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

So I guess the machine shop did it. He was DQ'ed and given time off with good behavior.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

That's the story I thought I remembered. Won the championship, DQ'ed at the Winters, only Champion to be suspended for his #1 year.
There was supposedly another Stock champ who was TOLD not to defend his title due to some unknown reasons.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Jason was the 1993 Stock Champion with the Buick. The piston problem was another story and it has not been correctly told in this thread yet.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

OK, Tony.
What's the REST of the story?

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Jason came to the 1993 World Finals but did not come to the 1994 Winternationals.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

IIRC, he had the pistons on the rods backwards to reduce friction on the cylinder walls.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Unless I'm mistaken, The NHRA guide accepted one piston for 70-72, which was actually the higher compression piston from 1970. Using it in a 71 or 72 got you more compression and from the Benisek days (72) forward no one ever corrected it in the guide or in anyones engine. I believe, the story that went around the Buick comunity, was Jason was claiming the car as a 71 but it had "the wrong" 1970 pistons per the 70 spec. AND it was the same piston config everyone with a Buick 455 had run for 20 plus years-just got enforced on him..... This is what I remember from a lifetime of Buick ownership, but is not necassarily what happened here-my memory sucks at this age compared to 20 years ago.

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Correct me if I am wrong but, didn't he win the Championship without winning a National event or the Divisional?

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

Nice article on Competition Plus
http://www.competitionplus.com/index...11360&Itemid=6

Re: Jason Line running stocker
 

I thought he raced the car as a '70 Stage 1. I remember being amazed that he tried it, but he did move from C/SA to D/SA. Fred Catlin ran a '70 Stage 1 for years in C and lobbied for replacement pistons other than factory '70 Buick pistons, or to get some HP taken away so he could get out of C. He was never successful.