[Greg Hill]

You guys need to realize the rules for heads have changed over the years. For example, any valve job is legal as long as it’s done off the center of the guide with a cutter. It will be a cluster if all of a sudden someone doesn’t like how something looks and everything measures right and there are no grinding marks, no welding or no epoxy. It’s really hard to have consistent rule enforcement if it’s subjective and not objective. When the sportsmen racers got representatives about 10 years ago, I was the rep for d-3. I was at Gainesville that year, 2008, and talked to several of the National tech guys.

One of the things that was on the minds of a lot of the officials and a lot of the racers was consistent rule enforcement from division to division. What was good in D-1 might not be good in D-5. The rules have to be made so they are easily enforced. The days of someone running their finger in an intake port and feeling it won’t cut it now day. I’m not a real high tech guy and don’t know anything about digitizing heads, however on the older cars with cast iron heads the same casting number can vary greatly from one head to another. On the new cars with CNC ports I’m sure digitizing would be possible.

One other little item I’ll throw out there is that there are aftermarket heads approved for stock eliminator combinations that are 20 cc too big on the intake runner as cast. The idea that something is drastically wrong with how the rules are enforced is wrong headed in my view. I haven’t heard any racers saying that they want things like they were 30 years ago. I have a similar view to Ken in that if you try to do things that are not consistent and objectively enforceable you could lose a bunch of racers. This battle was fought 10-12 years ago.