[Jeff Lee]

I'm all for steel in lieu of aluminum, i.e., heavier replacement parts, not lighter replacement parts. The problem you run into when allowing fiberglass replacement parts is fiberglass turns into carbon fibre. The argument will be " well it's mesh, same difference". And once you allow this then every fiberglass hood ever produced (T/A Challenger, T/A Pontiac, W-30 Olds, etc.) now has a standard to go by and subsequently can cut hood weight in half. Those racers would then have an advantage over their competitors. I imagine all the SS/AH cars are carbon-fiber'ed instead of fiberglass'ed as per OEM but they have their own seperate class and they only have to deal with each other.
Glad to see NHRA is at least looking at these issues. We had aluminuim (non-OEM) radiators addressed this year, now they're looking at fenders and such, now NHRA should pay more attention to racers with fiberglass front bumpers being used in lieu of the (heavy) endura bumpers their cars had as an option.