Poking the Bear Ford Performance Products

[Bruce Noland]

Originally Posted by Jim D'Amore

I don't know the difference but I do know NHRA calls it Stock Eliminator Showdown class. Even when it's announced, it's presented as Stock Eliminator showdown class. It started it's life in Stock Eliminator and the engine combinations are in the Stock Eliminator guide. If you take your Showdown Stock Eliminator car to a divisional race you can run it in Stock Eliminator. So every FS Stock Eliminator engine combination is legal expect for the Ford 5.4L 4.0L and the GM 327 4.0L combination. Mike D. and Roger Allen made that happen.


Jim D'Amore

Yeah, some folks have been getting away with calling it Stock but it's not. They snuck these cars into Stock Eliminator by calling them a special production run. None of them were showroom production cars.

[stang321]

as an outside observer that's works in a dealership the answer to your question is far simpler than it may appear Ford has no desire to see a mustang win a "Factory Showdown Shootout" with an engine they no longer produce. no mustangs will be sold on Monday from a 5.4 win on Sunday diehard racers care but upper management just wont see the benefit

[JHeath]

Originally Posted by stang321

as an outside observer that's works in a dealership the answer to your question is far simpler than it may appear Ford has no desire to see a mustang win a "Factory Showdown Shootout" with an engine they no longer produce. no mustangs will be sold on Monday from a 5.4 win on Sunday diehard racers care but upper management just wont see the benefit

There is nobody on the planet who is buying a 5.0 Mustang on monday after watching a FSS Mustang win on sunday. Maybe that was the case 50 years ago.