new A/FX CLASS

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

From what I've heard, an awful lot of Racers have been asking for their chassis deposits back................
BUT, "time will tell".

When the class was being developed, it required OEM roofs, quarters, and trunks. As many recall, this was the way old-school, early Pro Stock cars were built.

My buddy was one of the first shops that started to build a COPO Camaro under this premise, with oversight from NHRA. Then, he started to hear that the big chassis shops got orders from racers and started to complain to NHRA that it was too difficult for them to build the car with the OEM body components. NHRA gave in and Five-Star and other companies that build carbon fiber bodies got involved too to make the body parts.

If my buddy had built the car with the new rules, which by the way, have not been released, he would have saved himself over 250 hours of labor and lots of money in parts. The new cars are just a tube chassis with carbon fiber parts attached similar to a Pro Stock.