Crate Motor Class

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by bubski

Bruce !! maybe you need it splained to you !! NHRA already is allowing crate motors in S/SS !! So if you don't build a new 25.000$ plus crate motor you don't count as an NHRA class racer ?? A low budget motor will be just what it is, like a traditional car without all the new enhancements. A way to race and maybe not stand a chance against the best in your class , but a way to get out there and race . So the new OEM motors aren't crate motors ?? This holier than thou hypocrisy in S/SS is amazing !! As everyone pushes for non stock parts to gain an advantage while moaning about a car you'll never race heads up .

I just love you no name guys. You, of course, splained nothing. I'm talking about Stock. We all know the new OEM motors are in SS. But there are none in older cars in Stock. You want in the back door of Stock with your garden variety low budget crate motor cars when others have spent their money and built their cars for nhra racing. Go build a legitimate nhra Stocker (budget or expensive) and you will be welcomed with open arms but you will not make it in with the budget crate motor cars. nhra already has way more Stockers than it wants. A Division Director told me that "if" anything was ever to be allowed it would be the new oem motors (read expensive) and that they have absolutely no interest in opening the door to the old ihra crate motor cars. I hope you understand my splaination this time. But I doubt it!

[Cameron Collins]

If nhra let crate motor stockers run, there still be low car counts. To many key board racers that wanna wine and bitch.

[Ed Wright]

If you you build an IHRA only combo, go run IHRA.
If you want to run both, be bright enough to build a combo that fits both. Don't expect rule changes to make you happy.
Simple, right?

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

If you you build an IHRA only combo, go run IHRA.
If you want to run both, be bright enough to build a combo that fits both. Don't expect rule changes to make you happy.
Simple, right?

Sounds like perfect logic to me!!

[KEN BUGAJ]

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[Ed Wright]

My car came from the factory with an LT1 engine, and that is what is in it now. It is a '96 model, I bought in 1997, it was 18 months old with 36,000 miles on it, with an LT1 engine & automatic transmission.

You evidently built that car for IHRA, you can still run it there, right?
You can also bracket race it at NHRA tracks, right?
But, expect THE major sanctioning body to make new rules for you?
You built the wrong car for NHRA, other than et brackets.
You did not understand that when you built it?

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

My car came from the factory with an LT1 engine, and that is what is in it now. It is a '96 model, I bought in 1997, it was 18 months old with 36,000 miles on it, with an LT1 engine & automatic transmission.

You evidently built that car for IHRA, you can still run it there, right?
You can also bracket race it at NHRA tracks, right?
But, expect THE major sanctioning body to make new rules for you?
You built the wrong car for NHRA, other than et brackets.
You did not understand that when you built it?

NHRA should adopt the IHRA Classes.
Did not have any problem creating a class for the COPO Manufacturers built race cars or ProMod for that matter?

Originally Posted by KEN BUGAJ

Eddie, it's not how smart a person is, it's what they want to spend or can afford.(that's smart) The Crate motor car I built was for my son who's just starting out in life. He raced it had fun and now is into something else. What would be a good idea is stock GT. Just like they did for Super Stock. Isn't that what you run ? A motor in a car that didn't come from the factory

Sounds like a suggestion for the IHRA

[KEN BUGAJ]

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