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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN
Certain items that are now allowed were almost impossable to check or way to time consuming in tear downs such as a REAL OEM cam. Most were found to be running a regrind anyway like the NHRA deal in 1972. Why do you think NHRA went to rate of lift cams around 1974? They gave up trying to police it. Torque converters were another area. A converter can be made to stall low yet have a higher stall speed when raced. Im not sure about the tires today but when I last worked the tire could be no larger than 29.0. Should have been 28 inch hi max. With the use of the current tires the rear end up grade was a necessity or we would have had broken cars every run PLUS they are supposed to use a posi and not a spool. Do ya think they are checked for that today.....LOL. . The OEM exhaust manifold game became a joke with guys running 383's and 440's in late model 'Cudas and Challengers trying to argue the max wedge manifolds came on their cars.....LOL. Reason for the headers WITH a real non straight thru muffler. No empty beer cans or glass packs. If the cam duration and overlap and valve springs are checked these days (I doubt its being done) then its as close to pre 1972 Jr. stock as one can get. To bad most of the racers are not running the older cars instead of the late model FI stuff. I should have written in a max year rule of pre FI or carb non computer cars when it was done. Hind sight is 20/20 !
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Terry, you're right about where NHRA is going with it's limited tech support, I know that they have problems giving their tech staff support for stock and super stock, I'm sure that they wouldn't be interested in another class that would need even more scrutiny. Pure stock should be no slick, tire size that that the model came with and so on. NHRA could profit on the long term with new blood bringing their new 5.0 Mustang, don't forget all those 300hp plus v6 out there in the form of Challengers, Mustangs, Camaro's and all new Trucks with the new ecoboost 6 from Ford, I can see many young men and young women involve at that stage. Just my two cents but it's been awhile sine we've seen so many new cars with much horspower available. Claude