[Ed Carpenter]

Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich

This.

Seriously, I have no idea where this fixation of making someone (especially someone else, because I doubt any of us will run the class) effectively race on an ice rink comes from.

Putting 14"x32" slicks on them will only make them look more like race cars, and effectively make them back half cars. It would make them viable race cars that can be raced, instead of wrecked constantly.

However, we just saw what massive rule changes over a short period did for the class. Parity went to Hell, and so did the cost, not to mention the car count. Does anyone really think this entire rewrite of the class will work? A small tire wreck fest, which NHRA and the fans will hate, and a factoring nightmare, which NHRA will despise, not to mention handle poorly, is not the salvation of the class. It is merely replacing the class with something else, which is entirely unlikely to survive.

The cars themselves could be reigned in by giving them until 2018 to comply with a new body rule (templates, exactly like production cars, roof and quarter panels based on a body in white) and some common sense engine rules. But what can't be done, it seems, is convince Ford and Mopar to invest in a cylinder head program.

Stephen Bell current Super stocker is exactly how they should look. That car is bad azz. With so many of those out there including the current pros you could have 32 car fields. Probably 50-60 trying to get in the show.