Shipping weights

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

Billy its not 1975 anymore. Eliminating shipping weights is way different then asking for carbon fiber hoods and doors. I agree let tech get hard on a ballast max weight, make sure that racers are following the 100 total lbs weight box rule. Just enforce the current weight rules. But at the end of the day its has to be easier in NHRA and the racer for this class to make it. The days of 15 plus NHRA tech guys that an event know the STK/SS rules front and back are over and never coming back.

Charlie Bob, I'm going to try and make this as simple as I can for guys like you and Gaffney ( who BTW doesn't run in Stock) to understand, in 1975, you had to use a for real "stock" cam. That went away, we went to "stock" lift, any duration because there weren't enough Tech inspectors who knew how to check a cam. Then, we had to change the valve spring rule because the "stock" springs wouldn't follow the square cams that were suddenly "stock". Then, because we were blowing up all of our "stock" motors from the RPM that we could now turn, we were allowed pistons, valves, rods, and cranks made by the aftermarket for our "stock" motors. Then, we were allowed aluminum heads, blocks and cranks because all of the "stock" stuff was too hard to find (B.S.).
Are you getting my drift here? I will guarantee you that if you do away with shipping weights, there will be a push for light weight stuff within a couple of years. It's what Racers do.