Do Stockers need correct year seats?

X-TECH MAN · 04-12-2010, 10:58 AM

[QUOTE=Michael Beard;181487]Uh, Travis, the car in question was thrown out at an IHRA race, so it sounds like they ARE enforcing the rules. Your post and some others on here make it sound like they were not.

They may be enforcing the rules AFTER someone complains (if anyone knows whats right or wrong) but the tech crew is NOT doing thier job to begin with when they tech in the class legal cars. Stock and S/S are not .90 cars or Top Sportsman type race cars. They just dont know what is right and what is wrong. It was the same story when I was working for IHRA more than 10 years ago. I ran into many problems when they came to me during eliminations or after a win. It happened after a Top Stock win by a certain small block Corvette that had a SOLID non working rear suspenion with the tires hanging OUTSIDE the finder wells and when I tried to throw it out and award the runner up the win I was over ruled by the higher ups because of the GM connections. I was also not allowed to have a 100% of the Top Stock field tear down at Budds Creek one year as I knew several were bogus. Thats when I decided to give it up and retire again. Until the IHRA finds enough tech people to police the problems it will never end. One tech guy cannot oversee every stock or S/S (not to mention the Pure stockers) car in competition. Who ever is in charge of the class legal cars needs to be able to rely on other tech guys and unfortuneatly the OLD farts like myself and a very few others ever cared. Some just dont know and most dont care. Danny Waters and Hank Blanenship have improved the tech in process 1000% but those 2 guys cant be everywhere at once.

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X-TECH MAN Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lake Placid, Florida Posts: 3,203 Likes: 1,047 Liked 235 Times in 110 Posts	Re: Do Stockers need correct year seats? [QUOTE=Michael Beard;181487]Uh, Travis, the car in question was thrown out at an IHRA race, so it sounds like they ARE enforcing the rules. Your post and some others on here make it sound like they were not. They may be enforcing the rules AFTER someone complains (if anyone knows whats right or wrong) but the tech crew is NOT doing thier job to begin with when they tech in the class legal cars. Stock and S/S are not .90 cars or Top Sportsman type race cars. They just dont know what is right and what is wrong. It was the same story when I was working for IHRA more than 10 years ago. I ran into many problems when they came to me during eliminations or after a win. It happened after a Top Stock win by a certain small block Corvette that had a SOLID non working rear suspenion with the tires hanging OUTSIDE the finder wells and when I tried to throw it out and award the runner up the win I was over ruled by the higher ups because of the GM connections. I was also not allowed to have a 100% of the Top Stock field tear down at Budds Creek one year as I knew several were bogus. Thats when I decided to give it up and retire again. Until the IHRA finds enough tech people to police the problems it will never end. One tech guy cannot oversee every stock or S/S (not to mention the Pure stockers) car in competition. Who ever is in charge of the class legal cars needs to be able to rely on other tech guys and unfortuneatly the OLD farts like myself and a very few others ever cared. Some just dont know and most dont care. Danny Waters and Hank Blanenship have improved the tech in process 1000% but those 2 guys cant be everywhere at once. Last edited by X-TECH MAN; 04-12-2010 at 06:55 PM.