Consolidating Classes

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by GarysZ24

I'm with you Art on the tire size thing, and I was hoping that I could prove it the same on my car by checking out how my car ran at the Div. 5 ET Finals in Topeka this year...driving around the water, auto shifting, and not stahling my convertor. My best run was .23 over the index for DF/S, which I would've accepted if not for one other comparo...I went back to the same race (2006), where I had my did the burnouts, manual shifted my tranny, and stahled my convertor to 3600rpm.'s. I couldn't believe it, but I ran the exact same best e.t. of 15.53! So now that we have to deal without our beloved 14" wheeled slicks, I'm going to have to replace that lost momentum somewhere else...like a cam change and/or a set of headers!!! Speaking of the latter, Does anyone here know if someone is still in posession of a set of the headers that Hooker used to make for the 60 degree Chevy V6? Randy Hyman seemingly is the only person (other than me) that's running that engine, and his (formerly Linda Sherman D-1) Citation is the only one I know of that has those (now defunct) headers on it? Otherwise, I'll have to scrap my pennies together to have a customized set built...the only offer I've heard of so far was $1,000 for a set (for a six-cylinder engine when V8 regular headers can be had in a Jegs or Summit catalog for less than half of that), seems a bit much...too much for me anytime soon!!!

Gary, You used to be able to buy S -10 header pieces from Hooker and maybe others.
That's what I used for the Citation. Write or call me. I CAN be bought... You know , you're looking at 4 tenths, right now !

[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by art leong

Mike I think the Honda guys use a 4x100mm bolt pattern Try there websites.
You will have to steam the rice off them though. LOL

Now Art, that's more than LOL funny, that's ROLOL..(ROLLING OVER)!!!

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Anybody got any 4x100mm 15x4-ish rims? I'd really like to ditch the steel-belted radials I have on the back of the Turismo in favor of some M/T front-runners.

No you don't!

[BobUnkefer]

Originally Posted by Michael Beard

Anybody got any 4x100mm 15x4-ish rims? I'd really like to ditch the steel-belted radials I have on the back of the Turismo in favor of some M/T front-runners.

Mike,
get to be good friends with your local recycling/salvage yard and ask to look at their Hollander wheel book. With some studying you would be surprised to find what is readily available.... and I would think someone already has a 4x100 15" wheel

Unk

[Bobby Fazio]

I love people who petition to have autos and sticks combined when they have never driven or tried to maintain a stick car. Ya let's do that so the remaining 5 stick cars in super stock (Hemis aside) will surely convert to automatic.

Take off your skirt and build a stick combo if you feel stick cars are unfairly getting a class win here and there. I double dog dare ya! As for clutchless, nope I don't have one, I know how to whack a clutch, rip a 30 year old Doug Nash, and still be consistent.

Here is a suggestion that I don't know if it has ever been proposed or tried in the past: To eliminate all the single runs that everyone is so upset with.. why not be more strict on car classification? At your first divisional of the year, choose the class your car will run (either natural, up one, or down one) and you must run it for all the divisional events. As for nationals, whatever class you put down on your online registration the day you pay your $270 is the class you must run when you arrive at the gate. Haven't they been letting cars switch when they get to tech?