Re: CJ engine options and HP ratings.
You can race a Yenko 69 L-72 Camaro or Chevelle. But not a 67 or 68 Yenko L-72 Camaro. You can race a 70 LT-1 Camaro or Corvette, but you can't race a Yenko LT-1 Nova. The point being you can now race what amounts to a crate motor car built by a tuner that doesn't even have to meet a minimum sales number, where before there were rules in place specifically to keep such cars (Yenko cars, and Baldwin/Motion cars) OUT of Stock, and even Super Stock.
You can't race a 67 L-88 Corvette, at least not as anything other than a SS/GT car, and yet it is absolutely no further from a real showroom car than a new Challenger Drag Pack car, in fact it is closer, far closer.
Now all of that is legal, and expensive existing cars of current racers are not only being rendered obsolete and uncompetitive, but the means of recovering some sort of ability to compete is being almost completely removed. If this is the way Stock is going, it is going to die. I suppose if you can get excited about being a part of that "history", more power to you.
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Alan Roehrich
212A G/S
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