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[GarysZ24]

Originally Posted by Jack Matyas

Mark -- if you remember when we started doing this it was a good thing to have a slow car -- what changed?

Jack,

I'm not sure what all would be in Marks book (answering your question), but I think I know one or two things that've changed when you guys started doing this level of racing:

1. The aftermarket made a lot more products for slower cars to use in Stock/Super Stock than they do now---remember when Hooker Headers produced headers for Chevy FWD V6's? Ask Linda Sherman about them since she had them on her Citation, back in the '90's before she sold the car to Randy Hyman.

2. We don't have the luxury of a variety of slick sizes like the faster class cars do as well, and I don't know of any radial slicks being made that are clearance legal for Stock that fwd's or cars such as Lane Weber's "Skyhawk" can use...do you? If so please tell me who makes them, so I can shop for them...

3. Even the big three's high-performance catalogs had products that would be legal for slower rollers to use in our classes back then..(i.e. the Mopar stuff for the 2.2's, and parts for the GM 90 & 60 degree V6's, and their 2.0 4cyl engines--after all, the Archer brothers were terrors in I.M.S.A. racing back in the 80's with their Cavaliers with those engines...).