“Live from” the NHRA D2 Nat open series at Piedmont

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Originally Posted by j gardiner

billy myers fired the warning shot years ago for ihra class racing, why anyone would want to have continued racing ihra invented classes after that fair warning is a little beyond sympathy and understanding. My dad always said "it was a snake and you picked it up anyway"...............some of you guys understood you were taking a chance, what were the rest of you thinking about ????
That doesn't make any sense, that was like 30 years ago. I raced over 15 years in a "ihra invented class" . There were a few ihra invented classes that nhra was more than happy to pick up top sportsman top dragster and pro modified for example. Let the man be if he wants to campaign for his class let him. I've been reading these threads and what it boils down to is some stuck up class racers that feel he doesn't deserve to race with them or even discuss on a website.

You nailed it !!!!!! The ONLY difference between the pure stock classes and the stocker of yester years including the Jr. Stock days are having to run a real muffler. No empty beer cans allowed and pre 1971 had a 7 inch tire rule. The slide began with the elec. water pump drives. Then stock died in 1985 with any cam as long as the lift was maintained. Then it was roller rockers, solid lifters and heavier pressures on valve springs around 1985-86, who would have figured lifters would cost almost a thousand dollars. What about those 55 MM cam journals ?Sometime during all of this NHRA allowed transmissions that never came with the engine combo. Where the tech guys to lazy or to fat to get down and check or to stupid when the real tech guys all retired, died or just got fed up with the BS. Yeah, you have to inspect a pure stocker which a lot of so called tech guys can not do ! Why do you think tech inspection is such a joke ? Is it that NHRA is to cheap to pay for qualified inspectors? How many can check duration and over lap ? Could they even tell the difference between a 350 turbo or a 400 turbo ? How about the difference between a 727 Torqueflite and a 904 ? Its all gotten easier for tech, and less $$$$ for NHRA but more expensive for the stock racers who are not millionaires. In a few years you old rich guys will either quit or be racing brackets which is what it is now anyway. We originally had a cut off for the year allowed to run pure stock to keep out the computer junk but after I quit all of that fell by the way side plus I could not get Mike Baker to chase after the cam specs for the newer car. Other than bigger tires, higher lift cams and ported heads you might as well be running Super Stock. THAT is why the so called Pure Stock classes came into being in the first place. To give the little guy a shot at racing and holding a record. We used to have a separate eliminator all together but after the Billy Meyer fiasco when IHRA returned to class racing the new owner wanted to cut down so it ended up what it was. Have fun !!