When was the "Golden Age" of Stock Eliminator

Robert Swartz · 04-01-2009, 12:26 PM

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Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

I will "drink" to those statements. Most on here wont ever know what its like to be DQ'ed for 2 lbs to much valve spring pressure or 2 more degrees of duration or overlap...lol. IHRA still has those rules (pure stock) but not enough good tech guys who have the knowledge to check the cars from top to bottom.

Yep, guys I ran with lost the class trophy at, I believe, the 76 US Nationals. Too much duration on the cam. Shoot, I remember when we used to have to argue over interior trim and radio knobs for chrissake! Whomever made the comment about stockers today being the equivilent of 70's Super Stockers, is dead on! Add a roller cam and an intake, we'd be there.

Robert Swartz

Rich Biebel · 04-01-2009, 12:44 PM

The first WCS race we attended with out freshly built '57 sedan delivery was at E-Town in 1966? We were rejected for....to much opening around the fenderwell Stahl headers, a few missing pieces of chrome trim and our car had small windows installed in the side panels and they were grudginly accepted when we told them why they were there......It had been a service truck for NJ Bell and the windows allowed it to be driven on the NJ Parkway....We were DQ'ed along with the class winner at Indy for camshafts...both of us had the same issue. A totally stock cam from a Chevy dealer was rejected because it was a replacement and not the original 283/220.....Chevy superceded it, NHRA had not accepted it yet......a few weeks later they did......Golden Age? Yea right! Watching people argue about little details and trying to do a cam check........now that was rediculous! Valve Springs!!!! Come on! Dampers were not counted by some and counted by others....Carburetors? You can't have the wrong number......but how about one with NO numbers......ok.....We got one and it was passed all the way to the top......and was on the car when we set a record.......I saw so many stupid rules interpetation infractions and lets be real honest here.....Who you knew and who you were associated with had an enormous amount to do with your being deemd legal or not. Maybe not everywhere but it definately happened that way and you never knew what you were in for at some tracks.......I have heard many tales form others from those old days.....same stuff.

04-01-2009, 12:44 PM	#2
Rich Biebel VIP Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Northern New Jersey suburbs Posts: 2,314 Likes: 25 Liked 544 Times in 213 Posts	Re: When was the "Golden Age" of Stock Eliminator The first WCS race we attended with out freshly built '57 sedan delivery was at E-Town in 1966? We were rejected for....to much opening around the fenderwell Stahl headers, a few missing pieces of chrome trim and our car had small windows installed in the side panels and they were grudginly accepted when we told them why they were there......It had been a service truck for NJ Bell and the windows allowed it to be driven on the NJ Parkway....We were DQ'ed along with the class winner at Indy for camshafts...both of us had the same issue. A totally stock cam from a Chevy dealer was rejected because it was a replacement and not the original 283/220.....Chevy superceded it, NHRA had not accepted it yet......a few weeks later they did......Golden Age? Yea right! Watching people argue about little details and trying to do a cam check........now that was rediculous! Valve Springs!!!! Come on! Dampers were not counted by some and counted by others....Carburetors? You can't have the wrong number......but how about one with NO numbers......ok.....We got one and it was passed all the way to the top......and was on the car when we set a record.......I saw so many stupid rules interpetation infractions and lets be real honest here.....Who you knew and who you were associated with had an enormous amount to do with your being deemd legal or not. Maybe not everywhere but it definately happened that way and you never knew what you were in for at some tracks.......I have heard many tales form others from those old days.....same stuff. __________________ Rich Biebel S/C 1479 Stock 147R Last edited by Rich Biebel; 04-01-2009 at 12:53 PM.