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Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez
Terry,didn't the threat of "lawyer intervention" help kill Top Stock?????????????
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Im not quite sure about the "Lawyer intervention" part of it killing it off but it was the forever expansion of rules and the massive cheating not to mention the "buying off" of a tech official who was supposed to be checking this crap several years after I threw in the towel. The existence of non stock intake manifolds on the now allowed FI cars and ported throttle bodies on LS 1 type engines and so on. The GM engineer (Gary Penn) screwed it all up initionally by shoving the crate motors down our throats. Myself and Mike Keener had our "hands tied". It was a good idea in the beginning but when outside forces who know NOTHING about stock racing try to run the show it turned into a nightmare. Even Keener gave up not long after I quit. When it became a "Self sponsored" race one team in particular bought their way into a Championship. The rules went crazy in the allowed parts and no one was around to police it. It was a circus. Or better yet you could call it a "Monkey F##K". It became like allowing the inmates running the crazy house. If the new cars are allowed in a top stock program as I heard MIGHT be revived (Not in IHRA) then it will be a joke all over again with the bogus HP factors being used. Lets hope they wont be allowed to run with the older cars unless the HP factor are brought up to speed or a new DP or Mustang will be all you see running heads up.