Wheelie Bars are not needed for Safety on Stockers!

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Notch1320

1.18 -1.21 on the car I crew on. 3500lbs...........Leaf Springs........Bolt on replacement style front clip. 52-53% on the nose.

Yes, these cars are different from Stockers.........But it can be done safely without sissy sticks.

No, it can't. I'd take them off if I could.

[Ian Hill]

Yes, these cars are different from Stockers.........But it can be done safely without sissy sticks.[/QUOTE]

And what you are missing is that if you'd put slicks on instead of the drag radials, cranked the rpm up on the launch and made some serious starting line power (as apposed to launching at a low rpm, or low timing to reduce power) a setup that would most likely run quicker than the 5.00 you've posted, you'd need wheelie bars. You may be the quickest in your class, that is limited in tire spec, but if there was no tire spec, you'd hit it harder out of the hole like we do and scape your bumper on good tracks, like we can.

My stocker has road a 300 foot wheel stand right verticle, my super stock has hit the bars so hard the rear wheels came of the ground. my 1967 1000hp super charged chevelle pulls 1.5' wheelies, no bars.

...i think yellow bullet has forum where you may make more sense!

[Bruce Noland]

Alan,
Notch is switching things around a bit. The toaster car turns a 1.28 sixty foot while running a 3.50 rear gear and a 1.80 first gear in a glide. And uses coil over ladder bars and it still appears to be turning the tires. Now he wants to talk about a car he is crewing. He's just out here jacking around. Nothing he has posted has anything to do with Stockers.

[boostedf22c]

You can't compare a small tire, no wheelie bar, power adder car to a Stocker or Superstocker. Two completely different cars with two completely different setups.

[Bill Harris]

If NHRA expects stockers to tune with the suspension then they shouldn't prohibit travel limiters on the front end. Don't say to tune with suspension and then take away a major tuning capability, dumb-asses.

[Bruce Noland]

It's a sad commentary. Under Compton the tech department has been reduced to picking on petty things like wheelie bar notches.

[sammy pizzolato]

Originally Posted by Bruce Noland

It's a sad commentary. Under Compton the tech department has been reduced to picking on petty things like wheelie bar notches.

we need another wally parks.we need people with drag racing know how not ones that never raced.people like lynwood dupre,steve gibbs,to say the least.

[Notch1320]

This original discussion was about "Stockers" and wheelie bars correct? I'm not sure how SS cars are now in the mix here??? My posts were directed at the "1000HP to 1200HP" car comment. Yes, what the 8.5 guys are doing is WAY different, but a Stock Eliminator car CAN Safely run without wheelie bars if NHRA were to instruct you all to remove them. I'm not trying to stir the pot here, just putting in my 2 cents. Carry on.....

[Sean Cour]

The key word missing from the vocabulary of NHRA, is LOGIC!!! Without this, all discussions will seem challenged by incompetence.

[TOSTO RACING]

I won't run my car without them !