SFI flexplate mandatory in all v8s Jan 2024

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

L.Fite, racing what you've been familiar with racing I agree with you're not arguing about safety equipment. I'm not talking about Pro Stock or S/C but I HAVE been talking about Brackets. What I am talking about is High 11/low 12 second and slower Stockers!
My DTD tells me that NHRA is trying to "align" the rules but that is absolutely not the case and not true. They claim to be "aligning" the rules with the Stick classes where a V8 must have an SFI shield and flywheel. As it is written now, a V8 automatic combo needs an SFI flexplate even in a 14 second car! The caveat being that a V8 automatic car doesn't need a transmission shield/blanket until 10.99! And it doesn't need a flexplate shield until 9.99! Where is the "alignment"?
A Bracket car doesn't need an SFI flexplate or any kind of shield until 9.99!
If there is any history of vast numbers of 11/12/14 second Stockers breaking flexplates, I don't know anything about it and I'm a pretty nosy guy.

Hey, get your butt in gear and get something together and come out and play! Time's short!

Billy, similar to how any V8 stick car is required to have a SFI clutch, flywheel, and bellhousing, even on a 14 second 302 2 barrel car. Yet, a modern car can run 9s without any safety equipment, other than a helmet. Years ago, it seemed like Stockers were often excused from having some safety stuff, like low 10 second A/S-A/SA cars were driving in a T shirt in the 80s, but the bracket guys running 11.99 or quicker needed a SFI -1 jacket. Then NHRA went the other way, I can race my 10.0 bracket car in regular pants, but my low 12 second M/S Mustang required me to wear SFI pants. It also needed a roll bar, and 2 year SFI harness, but if I ran it in brackets, I wouldn`t need any of that stuff until 11.49.And if it was 2018 and newer, not until 9.00 ETs! Funny watching some of the old Pro Stock racing in the early 80s, open face helmet, no gloves, and string style window nets, running low 8s and high 7s.

[L.Fite]

Funny watching some of the old Pro Stock racing in the early 80s, open face helmet, no gloves, and string style window nets, running low 8s and high 7s

And The Grump with a cigar clenched in his teeth! LOL