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Tom Nolan · 12-18-2012, 05:31 PM

Safety should be NHRA's only concern for rule enforcement! However common sense doesn't always prevail. Strut rods with loose 48 year old rubber bushings or even new replacement bushings were never designed by the manufacturer to accelerate and stop like these cars do today. Just like drum brakes, the cars were unsafe so, disc brakes were added.
I'm sure you could find a spherical bearing on 99 % of the front suspension of vehicles competing in Stock and Super-stock. The shocks everyone uses has bearings on the mounting points. Does this mean we all have to go back to modifying stock shocks.....that should be safe? Anyone want to line up beside a new mustang going 150 plus mph then stepping on the brakes after he or she modified their stock struts? Yikes.

12-18-2012, 05:31 PM	#39
Tom Nolan Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Lacombe, Alberta, Canada Posts: 182 Likes: 0 Liked 64 Times in 11 Posts	Re: Suspension Notice for S/SS by NHRA Safety should be NHRA's only concern for rule enforcement! However common sense doesn't always prevail. Strut rods with loose 48 year old rubber bushings or even new replacement bushings were never designed by the manufacturer to accelerate and stop like these cars do today. Just like drum brakes, the cars were unsafe so, disc brakes were added. I'm sure you could find a spherical bearing on 99 % of the front suspension of vehicles competing in Stock and Super-stock. The shocks everyone uses has bearings on the mounting points. Does this mean we all have to go back to modifying stock shocks.....that should be safe? Anyone want to line up beside a new mustang going 150 plus mph then stepping on the brakes after he or she modified their stock struts? Yikes.