[Andrew Hill]

Originally Posted by Casey Miles

I have a question about how these piece meal motors from Ford and Mopar are getting put into Stock? Are they crate motors? If so why are they in stock? I spoke to a friend of mine ( which are few) and he told me that the 352 Ford engine isn't anything you car get as a whole, you have to buy the parts and put it together. I know that there was question about the Shelby cars, but if what my friend is correct, the Shelby cars are no big deal. Stock may as well be call Modified product. If you think about it, Stock is allow exotic materials (Shubeck lifters) Pro Stock is not, just about any transmission along with rear ends and it seems any motor combo that the factories can think of now.
I try to keep my car close to stock and it's a far cry from what's going on now. If the factories want to through engines into stock, NHRA should put them at least 1.25 HP per cubic inch rather then some make believe HP that the factory says it is. NHRA should support Stock as Stock and force the factories to build the cars as production cars, not just 50 of them, if they build that many. Stock has been an Eliminator class now for over 37 years and now it's changing with no reguard for where it came from. Stock were cars in sheep's clothing running like wolfs, now it just wolfs!

Casey Miles
248H Stock

That's why these new cars are so ridiculous. They are purpose built race motors from a performance parts catalog with bogus HP factors. Nothing Stock about it.