Pure Stocker Thread

[Jack Matyas]

Originally Posted by GarysZ24

Precisely why I'm glad that IHRA is starting to expand out west. Today's Stockers would outrun the Super Stockers of the 70's and '80's!. Index reductions, changing altitude correction factors to emulate super class cars, the increased entry fees & registration costs, and the changes that have benefitted more so the faster class stockers than the slower ones, and taking away aviation fuel from our allowable fuel choices didn't help matters either!

Aviation gas ? ? ? Where have I been hiding ? ? I thought its been at least 30 years since we've been allowed to use it ..............

[Harry 6674]

If you want be the class quickie a pure stocker can get spendy almost as fast as a real stocker.
Machine tools really don't care what they are cutting on. Ofcource if you just want to bracket race less is required.

[Phillip marvetz]

I like the idea but it's not really something a West coast racer can get involved with.

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

Aviation gas ? ? ? Where have I been hiding ? ? I thought its been at least 30 years since we've been allowed to use it ..............

I recall being able to use Av gas as recently as the late 90's, and possibly the early 2k's. I can't speak for you, but I was running it when I started racing stock elim. back in '95 (in Denver), and it had to be legal still because I went to Noble, Ok. in '96, and was using it. I remember (sort-of) NHRA putting the clamps on anything other than specified fuels sometime between y2k, and 2004, but several racers in D5 were using it back in the 90's, and that's only been 13-17yrs ago. I don't know what to say Jack....

[ALMACK]

This is about as far as NHRA got with the Pure Stock idea:

http://www.nhra.net/2004/news/june/062202.html