Do you have to have correct hood
 

My question is this does NHRA Tech no longer care if you have the correct hood on your Stock / Super Stock car? I ask this because I was looking at my latest Dragster with the Virginia sportsman results and I noticed that the car Adam Davis drove to victory a 1967 Camaro has the wrong hood on it. It has a 396/325hp engine, you could not get the flat hood with that engine. The 67 Camaro with the 350 or 396 is an SS RPO Z-27 package only and part of that package was the raised hood with finned inserts. So what is the deal, Im just wondering not trying to make no one mad or get in trouble I would like to know.
Trevor Weiss B/S 2891 1967 RS/SS 396 Camaro

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Maybe it is like the 340 6 pack Cuda and Challengers with their fiberglass hoods.

In every car collection and street car you see, these hoods are only on the 340 6 Pack cars yet somehow they are now legal on nearly every V8!

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They do care, some of the corvette racers have been told in the past to change their hoods and that they will not be allowed to race if they come to the next race with the bogus hood.

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even though said bogus hood has its own RPO code and could have been ordered seperately IF you knew. However very few were ever ordered that way

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Same deal as the white B/S 427 Fairlane STATION WAGON running the fiber glass scooped hood. They only came on 2 dr. sedans and 2dr. hard tops with 2 X 4's originally but they look cool so who cares.....lol.

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I guess if no one cares we can put the cowl induction hoods on the 67 & 68 Camaros then HA HA.

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You have to remember that the NHRA crew that look at these cars are getting to be a younger crowd. They don't know which hood belongs to which combo. The 1969 Camaros comes with the spoiler and the front air dam or neither of them. Yet I see the cars with the air dam and not the spoiler. The NHRA people either don't know or don't want to regulate the cars.
I'm so tied of hearing that NHRA doesn't want to be bother with tear downs and other enforcement of regulations. The enforcement and regulations are what make it fun with a even playing field. We pay dues to NHRA and when we go to the races we pay a large entry fees which should cover the enforcement of the rules. NHRA doesn't want to pay the people to do the jobs of what we are paying for. Because NHRA doesn't want to do their work, we end up buying new parts or changing parts to get to where their lack of enforcement forces us to go. Unregulated valve jobs is just one more item that shows their lack of involvement. Next it will be just pump the engines to make sure you are just close to the cubic inches the car is supposed to have.

Casey Miles
248H E/S becasue of 4 hp

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Casey Miles hit it right on the money !

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Kevin they were only the louvers were differant between 67 & 68...Dad has a 67 SS 396/325 car. We have had it for about 22 years now.

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Several years ago NHRA dropped the hammer on '71 Corvette LS-6 cars that ran the L-88 hood.
Required that they only run the standard big block hood.