A case for aftermarket seats in stock

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Chad Rhodes

just as a rebuttal to the weight issue and the huge advantage it is; I just weighed our new 92 camaro H-I-J/SA car. Its no lightweight, heavier centerline wheels, stock brakes, nothing cut up or acid dipped, mild steel bar, stock POWER seats, etc. as it sits with me in it its 50 lbs light for H/SA, the lightest class it can run......................and I'm 245lbs. i don't see the whole weight issue. aftermarket seats would have just added to the massive amount of weight the car nees

Chad,

Do the shipping weights for these new cars include the discarded A/C units and cruise control, etc.? (I bet the 69-71 ish weights are for a stripped down car.)

What NHRA did not do was reflect the weight reduction of items such as aluminum brakes and things. The easiest way to eliminate the seat weight advantage is going back to every car must be nose heavy. (Anyone recall when that was lifted from the rule book?) It would eliminate all the trick stuff advantage. Does a guy with a 1970 six cylinder Maverick really need $3,000 of aluminum brake pieces to stop? No, but he does to run with the others in his class if they loose the weight there.

I could never understand how NHRA and IHRA let guys race without fire jackets or pants. If your V/SA car is hit by an A/S car and pinned to the wall, don't the flames burn you too while you cannot get out?

Look at some of the early Top Stock images. The A/B/C Stock Eliminator guys had jackets while the Top Stock guys had short sleeve shirts. For those of you not wearing fire resistant pants, I'm going to help at the hospital again this weekend, come along with me and see if those bozo nylon pants help you at all. We won't even get into back/neck injuries...