Super Stock Trivia Question...

[boostedf22c]

Originally Posted by Ernie Neal

Maybe this is the reason they think it's not a "real superstocker", section 11A of the rule book.

Reserved for foreign and domestic factory-produced automobiles
and sports cars. Classified per NHRA performance rating as
listed in the Official NHRA Stock Car Classification Guide. Only
those cars listed in the guide are eligible. All cars must be factory
production assembled, showroom available, and in the hands of
the general public. Minimum of 50 factory-assembled units of an

already accepted Stock model required
The only Honda's listed are Civics 2006 and 2007. Get in touch with Honda, get that S2000 in there and come back racing with us.
There is a little turbo car in the guide you might be interested in, if Honda has problems getting with NHRA.

Ernie Neal
SS 354

I did all of that. After a couple months of BS faxes, emails, phone calls, run arounds , I finally got ahold of the right person, with the right information and forms that NHRA requested. Then I was informed by Bruce at NHRA that I didn't need to submit the car because the "modified" section of Super Stock is a weight/cubic inch class, and the car didn't need added to the guide. I don't make the rules. Would of been nice to know that before spending all that time doing the work to get it submitted.

And last time I check I didn't know a Cavalier was a RWD V8 car.

[Ernie Neal]

Well, Carey I apologize.

I wasn't aware of that, must be how the VW is running too, now that I think about it.
Glad to here your going to be out more this year. Last past I saw you make at indy in the fall, you was all out of shape. Man that car is wicked fast.

Ernie Neal
SS 354

[boostedf22c]

Thanks.

Haha, yeah that was scary. I mean the car is always a bit unstable but that was ridiculous. I pretty much was bracing for impact. Guess my car doesn't like a cold track. that plus too much clutch and we just fixed a fuel pressure issue before that pass and we were putting down quite a bit more power than we ever had way too early. Guess we found what the car didnt want. Kind of got away from me.

I'll be attempting to run some comp this season.

And just so you know , my cavalier comment was tongue and cheek. No disrespect intended. Just wanted to clarify if the wink icon didn't dictate that.

[Eddie Rezac]

Originally Posted by boostedf22c

I did all of that. After a couple months of BS faxes, emails, phone calls, run arounds , I finally got ahold of the right person, with the right information and forms that NHRA requested. Then I was informed by Bruce at NHRA that I didn't need to submit the car because the "modified" section of Super Stock is a weight/cubic inch class, and the car didn't need added to the guide. I don't make the rules. Would of been nice to know that before spending all that time doing the work to get it submitted.

And last time I check I didn't know a Cavalier was a RWD V8 car.

Someone correct me if I am wrong! I believe the MX class cars were created in the late 70's, for ex pro-stock cars, to use in Comp eliminator, with 4&6 cly engines. In the early 80's they were moved into Modified. After the demise of Modified eliminator, they were then absorbed into the Super Stock ranks. The cars themselves can be built very close to the early Pro-Stock rules, with complete tube chassis, fiberglass fenders, doors, hood, deck lid, lexan glass, etc.
Eddie Rezac

[boostedf22c]

Originally Posted by Eddie Rezac

Someone correct me if I am wrong! I believe the MX class cars were created in the late 70's, for ex pro-stock cars, to use in Comp eliminator, with 4&6 cly engines. In the early 80's they were moved into Modified. After the demise of Modified eliminator, they were then absorbed into the Super Stock ranks. The cars themselves can be built very close to the early Pro-Stock rules, with complete tube chassis, fiberglass fenders, doors, hood, deck lid, lexan glass, etc.
Eddie Rezac

As far as where the class started and where it went throughout the years I'm not sure of as I was just a kid in that era. But yes, the cars can be built as you described. However, mine isn't one of those cars. Imagine how it'd run if it were.

[Bret Kepner]

Actually, the first year for MX was '75, IIRC. It was always a Modified subclassification and it was originally named "Mini Experimental". The first entries, (at Pomona that year), were two SCCA Toyotas. It was designed as a place for the non-VW four-cylinders so they wouldn't affect the Modified Compact (MC) classes. The NHRA later expanded the parameters to accommodate the V6s which became rampant a few years later.

Originally, the cars weren't permitted tube chassis. That came when "A" was allowed V6 engines and the class pretty much went full-tilt Pro Stock configuration around 1980. Many of you remember Mick Lieferman's white/orange Trans Am MX car; it was originally Ed Dixon's Hardy-built Pro Stocker.

BTW, I don't know why the current announcers call 'em "Modified Experimentals".