Re: EPA To Prohibit the Conversion of Street Cars into Race
So if I read all this right, if I want to have a basic bracket or Stock/SS drag car and am forced to comply with EPA guidelines to avoid getting fined, it either has to
A: be stone stock in all respects as far as engine components, pollution, and engine management systems if it was built from 1965-on, or
B: I have to buy a new factory race car, a 'body in white', or build a tube chassis car with my own hand built body that won't have a VIN. or
C: it has to be something pre-1965 that never had any kind of emissions equipment installed from the factory. Then I can do whatever the heck I want to it without repercussion. Big lumpy cams, 6-71 blower, aluminum heads, alcohol fuel, I can run it at the county fair tracks and sling dirt all over the place with it if I wanted to, etc etc and nobody in the EPA would care.
Wow. That really sounds logical.
Sounds like 1964 and older cars are going to be pretty darned desirable then. Better buy one now if you want to race any more. Time for a total re-write of the NHRA Classification Guide too. The 1952 Hudson Hornets may be the newest killer combo in Stock!
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Brian Saunders Lerna IL
'79 AMX T/SA 3790 currently being resurrected
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