IHRA Pure Stock

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Mike Carr

I'm a bit (OK, a lot) biased, since I run a S/SS Association, but I always thought it was dumb to have a S/SS race where certain types of cars were not allowed. In our series, ANY car that is NHRA/IHRA legal is welcome. At some of our events, we'd lose a good number of cars by using "NHRA only" cars and classes. We have members that run SS/Production, Crate Motor Stock, Stock/GT, Pure Stock, etc. Why someone would want to exclude cars is beyond me.

Some of the NHRA racers (not all) look down on the IHRA classes and racers. Its an ego thing !

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

Some of the NHRA racers (not all) look down on the IHRA classes and racers. Its an ego thing !

Terry, let's not start the IHRA/NHRA debate all over again, LOL! I could get in real trouble because I'd like to see the old AHRA/IHRA Formula Stock rules revived. Talk about having too many classes to police. That's kind of what the crate motor classes resemble.

This Pure Stock class looks really interesting. What would be nice if IHRA would open it up and push the break from 16 to 20-21lbs per HP. Lots of heavy family sedans out there that would make good stockers, just too heavy to make the current cut. In fact the car we were looking at was too heavy (natural Q car, NHRA 17lbs) but I was interpreting the rule of reducing weight to move the car down a class to 16lbs, I/PS. Since we didn't buy the car and Ohio Valley doesn't let them run anyway. It's a moot point now.

Back to the garage, finish my bracket car and order some more parts for the crate stocker. I'll just be happy to get a car done and get back to racing.

[Mike Taylor 3601]

They used to go all the way down to Z/PS (A) then cut back to around O then went to 1lbs.weight breaks and combined auto& stick.
Mike Taylor 3601

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Robert Swartz

Terry, let's not start the IHRA/NHRA debate all over again, LOL! I could get in real trouble because I'd like to see the old AHRA/IHRA Formula Stock rules revived. Talk about having too many classes to police. That's kind of what the crate motor classes resemble.

This Pure Stock class looks really interesting. What would be nice if IHRA would open it up and push the break from 16 to 20-21lbs per HP. Lots of heavy family sedans out there that would make good stockers, just too heavy to make the current cut. In fact the car we were looking at was too heavy (natural Q car, NHRA 17lbs) but I was interpreting the rule of reducing weight to move the car down a class to 16lbs, I/PS. Since we didn't buy the car and Ohio Valley doesn't let them run anyway. It's a moot point now.

Back to the garage, finish my bracket car and order some more parts for the crate stocker. I'll just be happy to get a car done and get back to racing.

Im not trying to start a debate.....Just stating a fact.