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Don;
I did not make an arbitrary statement.
You are a lot smarter than that..!

The IHRA Pure Stock limits the Spring and Cam which limits HP and RPM.
All cars are classified by HP and Weight then falls under a Class.
The F/PS and R/SA Indexes are close.
So if NHRA wanted to adopt Pure Stock this would be a logical consideration.
Then they would make adjustments as they do with all cars for best fitment.

NHRA did that adopting all the Corporate Crate Motor Factor Stock Cars!!

D

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Adding special sections to the rules so that you can race your car, the way you want IS asking for special exceptions. The rules are written, every one racing in Stock Eliminator is following them. But not you. No, you feel you need special rules to suit you and your car.

No, it would NOT be beneficial to Stock Eliminator. It further waters down the class. It sure as Hell didn't work for IHRA, in case you missed it, they don't run Stock at all anymore. Wonder why?

How about this? The rules are set. There are plenty of cats and racers out there that race under the rules. If you want to play, build a car that fits the rules and race, like everyone else. Instead of thinking you're so special that the rules need to change for you.

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Dan, those are factory race cars. They come with those engines. Not "crate motor" cars. Crying about it on the internet won't get NHRA to add those IHRA classes. Your not going to change it. They don't need you/them.

Build a car to fit, run someplace else, or go bracket racing. Hard for me to understand someone not simply building a car that could run anywhere to begin with. E T Bracket cars can, and cheaply.

Not all fast NHRA class cars have $6000.00 transmissions. Not all fast NHRA class cars have Warren Engines (or equivalent) professionally built engines. It's all more expensive for people that have to write big checks for everything.

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Just so we all understand each other.....

What you want, are the NHRA rules written as what you perceive as correctly....

You are not the magnetic center of the Universe, as hard as it is for you to believe.....

The planets do not revolve around you....

By definition you are a contrarian who will fight to the death that your incorrect conclusion, is correct....

You happen to man without a country....

You are dressed up with no place to go...

I guess that I will also have to move on.....

See you around the pits, wait you have no place to race with your car as it sits now, so I guess that it will be my bad luck to keep coming across your inane posts on ClassRacer...

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Are you living in an alternate reality?

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Here Dan, let's make this extremely simple.

There are a bunch of guys playing baseball, with regulation baseballs, gloves, cleats, and wooden bats, on a regulation field. And now you come in with a softball and aluminum bat, and want the rules amended so that you can get in the middle of their game and make them play with you according to your rules.

And you don't understand their ire?

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I have a really slow car...I want NHRA to bring back Z/SA....I'll post it on class racer and get 10,000 hits....nothing changed.....

While it is good to seek the recommendations and guidance from your peers, ultimately nothing will happen regardless of how many pages are written.
Forum members do not have the mechanism available to change a sanctioning bodies rules.

Write a proposal to NHRA. Accept the answer.

I bought gt40p heads and a roller shortblock for M/CM...guess what? It'll make a great bracket motor unless a local association still allows IHRA combo's.

I asked NHRA for hp off of the 300 6 cyl ford, they said no, I moved on.

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I know I'm old but I remember running Pure Stock with my Z-28 back in 1968. It was at Utica-Rome Dragway. I thought they were NHRA ? RC may know ? I'm not asking for pure stock back !

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I currently have an IHRA GT stock eliminator car that no longer has a specific class to race any longer. I can race the association races still. When I built this car close to 20 years ago IHRA had a very strong program and I didn't have any concern for running NHRA at that time. I and a lot of other people have seen the writing on the wall for a few years now, it still sucks that IHRA has given up on class racing. With that being said I do not expect NHRA to adopt these orphan classes and I am fine with that, they don't owe me anything. I will adapt and overcome and will be racing in 2018 one way or another.

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Good one!!