Crate Motor Class

[Myron Piatek]

Originally Posted by Mike Schwartz

Are there any other differences between an NHRA Stock car and a IHRA Crate Motor Stock car, other than the engine?

You're also allowed minor suspension mods for tire clearance (i.e.: 3/4" offset kit for leaf springs on Mopars.) and you can have a trunk mounted battery without a matching one up front. There were originally a few cars built with springs moved into frame rails, but they were getting away from that as too radical. They also revised other rules shortly after inception that originaly allowed other brand rear ends (i.e: Ford 9" in place of 8 3/4" - sounds like FS!) and tightened up on hood scoop rules to keeping original hole specs & sealed/unsealed configurations, like with "regular" Stock rules. They also allowed replacement aluminum radiators before NHRA did.

[James Perrone]

Good Luck to you 1/8 mile folks glad you have a program to race
But you proud crate motor and pure Stock racers better get of ClassRacer and race
Also you Proud people fail to realize that most ihra support came from us Nhra racers
If you continue to get same car counts as in the past You will have nothing again
If you get less support from the Nhra car you will have No Cars.
We get more cars at an East Coast Stock Ss race than you could get at any 2 ihra races
All Talk Will Spell Doom for you keyboard beaters. We will see.
I bet you guys fumble the ball and make excuses