Poking the Bear Ford Performance Products

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Jim D'Amore

I don't know the difference but I do know NHRA calls it Stock Eliminator Showdown class. Even when it's announced, it's presented as Stock Eliminator showdown class. It started it's life in Stock Eliminator and the engine combinations are in the Stock Eliminator guide. If you take your Showdown Stock Eliminator car to a divisional race you can run it in Stock Eliminator. So every FS Stock Eliminator engine combination is legal expect for the Ford 5.4L 4.0L and the GM 327 4.0L combination. Mike D. and Roger Allen made that happen.


Jim D'Amore

Yeah, some folks have been getting away with calling it Stock but it's not. They snuck these cars into Stock Eliminator by calling them a special production run. None of them were showroom production cars.