Interest in Modified?

[Tracy Robbins]

"Let's face it Class racing in IHRA is pretty much a joke IMO"

Wow...how often do you run IHRA? I think IHRA class racing is very competitive. I run a modified combination myself but would run any kind of car whether it is a traditional ss/ha or gt car as long as it fits in the super stock rules. IHRA class racing is far from a joke!

[randy wilson]

clas racing is not a joke. bracket racing has caused us to be a laughing stock of the racing world. can you imagine a local round track making guys dial in by their qualifing laps, the stands would be as empty as a local weekend at the bracket races. do not get all pissy, it is the truth.

[Michael Kilduff]

I think racers and fans alike would be interested in reviving the category. But this time around make it a doorslammer only class, and forget about weight breaks for using automatics-Door cars with manual transmissions only!

While I am in this thread let me give a shout out to Doyle Evans!

[Scotty D]

the fans will come back for this,and dont forget about ernie's engine builder dr dave watson still out there rowin'em also.as a helper with an organization for nothing but stickshift doorslammers(the umtr united manual transmission racers)you dont know how refreshing it is to hear this kind of chatter,it would be great to see some old corvette's and chevy 2's with little inchers and highwinding small blocks banging gears again.

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Venice, Hi Car turned out pretty good, took longer than I thought to finish, working full time and trying to build a car in less than a year by yourself was a tough road. I did finally get it going however really late in the year only managed to get to the Jegs Sports nats at Columbus and the Osceola points race. I'm fairly pleased with initial results, but still have some issues to iron out. Hopefully I'll be ready to go in the spring. As for the IHRA SS NOT being a joke as posted by someone else just look at the qualifying sheets at most any race, then tell me the same thing. Thanks Joe Buchanan SS/AX SS/BX 3117

[thrash7781]

283 destroked to 277, tunnel ram/w 660's, 5 speed, 650 gear, left the line at 11,800 and shifted at 10,500 in a 69 camaro, (year...1982. class...e/mp....index...10.50...ran 9.60...front tires droping in the middle of third gear...driver...my machine shop owner/bulider... Bill Reichert. Interested ??? I think i enjoyed watching him more then than what i do now. thanks for listening, "Thrash"

If it wasn't for IHRA there are a lot of Stock, Super Stock & Modified racers that would not have never run class IHRA brought class racing to the South, in particilar, NC,SC,TN, &Va. In the 70's & early to mid 80's, IHRA had 20-30 "WCS" races. That allowed a lot of racers to get there feet wet in class racing at the local level. NHRA had little to offer in those areas at that time, and frankly, it's not much better now. There are a lot of NHRA class racers that got their start with IHRA over the years. I agree that there are things that need to changed or tweeked, but so does the NHRA. Look at the NHRA schedule, 1 Nat'l event in NC, not running SS, no points races, 1 Nat'l.& 1 points race in Va, 1 Nat'l in the eastern part of TN., 0 Nat'l or points races in SC. For those of you not in these area's, this may not mean much to you. But for those of us who have jobs with not a lot of vacation time or in a sales/commision job where you lose money by not being at work, this is a huge factor in where & which organization we choose to spend our money with. So, before kicking IHRA in the dirt, take a look at NHRA and see how much they have done for the class racers in the last 10 years. 50% of what I read on this forum is compliants about how the NHRA is treating the sportsman racers. Each Association serves it purpose for class racing, in different ways.

Scott Tilley
IHRA SS Nat'l R/U
IHRA SS"WCS" R/U
Many time SS IHRA Record Holder
S/SS Combo wins & R/U

[Rusty Davenport]

Originally Posted by tilley2007

if it wasn't for ihra there are a lot of stock, super stock & modified racers that would not have never run class ihra brought class racing to the south, in particilar, nc,sc,tn, &va. In the 70's & early to mid 80's, ihra had 20-30 "wcs" races. That allowed a lot of racers to get there feet wet in class racing at the local level. Nhra had little to offer in those areas at that time, and frankly, it's not much better now. There are a lot of nhra class racers that got their start with ihra over the years. I agree that there are things that need to changed or tweeked, but so does the nhra. Look at the nhra schedule, 1 nat'l event in nc, not running ss, no points races, 1 nat'l.& 1 points race in va, 1 nat'l in the eastern part of tn., 0 nat'l or points races in sc. For those of you not in these area's, this may not mean much to you. But for those of us who have jobs with not a lot of vacation time or in a sales/commision job where you lose money by not being at work, this is a huge factor in where & which organization we choose to spend our money with. So, before kicking ihra in the dirt, take a look at nhra and see how much they have done for the class racers in the last 10 years. 50% of what i read on this forum is compliants about how the nhra is treating the sportsman racers. Each association serves it purpose for class racing, in different ways.

Scott tilley
ihra ss nat'l r/u
ihra ss"wcs" r/u
many time ss ihra record holder
s/ss combo wins & r/u

well said Scott Tilley !!!!!!!!!!!

[Ven302]

Hey Joe!

It would be way to cool for IHRA to bring back modified, I am "all in" as I am sure Jamie would be too.
Might keep our buddy Donn from "retiring" huh?. I love having a modified car (even though its in SS) it is all I have ever wanted to do since seeing Don Bowles Fairmont when I was a kid. I drool at the thought of the high winding cars all racing each other off of records or indexes or whatever, but no chalk! The shame of all this is that IHRA probably could not administer the class fairly, look what happened to Top Stock.
Its not the people at the ground level, its the management that promotes the laissez faire attitude towards this type of racing "too much work". It would be really neat to let the 5 oh cars and the early type modifieds and heck even some of the surviving imports with the turbo motors race "Head Up" with a handicapped start and no break out!

It is probably all moot now that most of the front drive GT conversions are subtly disguised Comp cars. lets face it, we probably are racing in modified (with chalk) what with the ported heads and conversion cars. I know I am generalizing but hasn't stock really become super, and Super Stock is teetering on being modified? If I remember you could not do to the heads then what the "ss" guys are doing now.( I bet somebody will correct me)

Any how I do believe in positive posting and if it were ever to bear fruit, I know I can speak for two crazy Canadians that would be in the tech line up, no matter how slow we were!

Joe I never got to see the new car, how did it turn out?

Venice
SS/CS
3041

[randy wilson]

vev 302 i like your approach and gutsy attitude. we also run cs when we venture out.