Aftermarket/Replacement Cylinder Head Rule Change

[Dan Fahey]

This is where I will miss the IHRA Pure Stock.
Basically the Old Stock Eliminator Rules.

Seems about that same time in Class Racing.
NASCAR Stock Cars had less and less original components!
Now not one part in modern day Stock Car ever fit on a Production Car.

Same with our car.
We need Roll Bars, special suspensions, more safety equipment, certification of helmets and seat belts, special fuel.
Cannot even use pump gas anymore.

Crate Motors were always a natural fit.
Replacement engines were always common.
Did not morphed the Stock Eliminator concept.
Sometimes you are stuck with a combination.
Old parts become problematic!
Plus opened up a vendor base.

We may not want another class but new ones are always being invented.
The RAGE of Racers complaining they do not want a new class.
New ones keep popping up.
Which means Stock Eliminator has to compete for Racers who choose to run those classes.

Current rules restrict inviting the new generation of Racer to play in our sand box.

You do not do not see many 20 - 30 year olds.
Do see 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and passing away.

IHRA had the right idea with their Class Eliminator set up.
Had NHRA adopted the IHRA structure.
There would have been shift from traditional Stock.


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[Rory McNeil]

Here we go again!

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

This is where I will miss the IHRA Pure Stock.
Basically the Old Stock Eliminator Rules.



Crate Motors were always a natural fit.
Replacement engines were always common.
Did not morphed the Stock Eliminator concept.

"Key word is WERE! IHRA decided to drop the Stock classes. Maybe if IHRA HAD morphed into NHRA Stock classes and rules,perhaps there would have been enough contestents that IHRA would have considered Stock to be viable still."

Current rules restrict inviting the new generation of Racer to play in our sand box.


"How exactly does expecting "the new generation of racers" to follow the same rules and procedures as all the other Stock class racers have to, restrict these new generation racers from playing in NHRAs sandbox?"
You do not do not see many 20 - 30 year olds.
Do see 50’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s and passing away.

"From what I have seen, the vast majority of 20-30 year olds simply do not care about cars, or racing at all. When I was 15, I was counting down the days until I could turn 16 and get my learners permit, and hopefully, my own car. This just does not seem to be the case anymore, at least in more populated areas. cars are simply not a high priority for many younger people, modifying and racing even less so. I don`t think that radically changing the status quo, for the thousands of faithful racers that have participated in Stock or S/S for many years is the answer."

IHRA had the right idea with their Class Eliminator set up.
Had NHRA adopted the IHRA structure.
There would have been shift from traditional Stock.


"Had NHRA followed IHRAs "right idea" structure, maybe there would no longer be Stock classes in NHRA either. From the number of NHRA racers on this site, looking to hopefully find a spot in a National Event with a full quota, and the 1000`s of Stock Class racers that attend NHRA Nat`l & divisional races, the NHRA Stock & S/S classes still seem to be pretty viable."


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