Crate Motor Class

[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?

What is the highest HP rated crate Motor available for class? What's the fastest a crate car has run in IHRA et wise?

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by Todd Hoven

What is the highest HP rated crate Motor available for class? What's the fastest a crate car has run in IHRA et wise?

Crate Motor spec sheets:
http://www.ihra.com/competition/comp...t/category/211

Ford CM Engines
● 460 / 535 @ 515
● 514 / 600 @ 520

Last I could find on some other combos:
Chevy 502/502 was rated at 443
500 / 445 Mopar (Wedge) at 443

Outside of Top Stock, the big HP combinations were few and far between. Most crate motor guys ran small blocks. I know Terry Taylor went 9.60's in A/CM many years ago. I'm sure Nitro Joe has the stats from back in the day. When IHRA did away with record points, class runoffs, etc people quit caring about performance as much.


FYI, my old 360 Magnum crate motor was rated at 325. Add aluminum heads with bigger valves, more cam, almost 2 points more compression, and a 1000cfm throttle body and you have a 5.9L DragPak, rated by NHRA in its infinite wisdom at 275HP. LOL

My advice to Crate Motor Racers is, "be careful what you wish for." You might see your combo hit harder than you ever thought possible. It'd be cheaper to build a stocker combo, than to try and keep up with some of the "wallets" in stock eliminator. It's not gonna be Easier or Cheaper to run a Crate Motor Combo...Guaranteed !

Depends on if you want to keep up with the Jones's or not. You can do things kinda-sorta affordable if you don't care about going fast. I built the 5.9L DragPak for Super Stock GT on a budget, and it paid for itself pretty quickly. I had less in my Super Stock car than most people have in their Stockers. One guy flat out told me I was lying when I told him how much I had in it. The car may have been slow, but it won both a National and a Divisional. The only thing that cost much more than a good crate motor was the EFI computer and fuel system.

[Nmbr1GMfan]

Originally Posted by Dan Fahey

NHRA should adopt the IHRA Classes.

Why would they want to do such a thing?

[HR9121]

I hate to break it to you guys but Stock eliminator doesn't need to be saved, IHRA does.

[Dan Fahey]

Originally Posted by Nmbr1GMfan

Why would they want to do such a thing?

Called promoting the sport