Posted by Goose on July 08, 2018 at 18:30:44 from (166.182.83.165):
I first put this on Tool Talk by mistake.
Had a family reunion 60 miles from home this noon, and a birthday party 20 miles away at 3:30. At the reunion, a cousin and another cousin's son-in-law and I talked stock car racing most of the time. My cousin and I were in it in the past and the other guy still is.
The birthday party was the 80th for a retired medical doctor. I taught him to water ski in 1967, right after he hung out his shingle, and we've been water skiing and deer hunting buddies ever since. Although neither of us skis anymore. He delivered our daughter when she was born, and he attended her baptism, confirmation, and 8th grade, high school, and college graduation parties. We reciprocated for his kids. (Minus the deliveries, obviously).
The fellow who is still racing said their engines have to be absolutely stock. They have to buy a crate engine and have an inspector watch them open the crate. The inspector then puts seals on the engine so it can't be opened up.
The rules we ran under when I was racing were we had to run stock sheet metal within the last five model years, wheelbase had to be the same as the sheet metal, the engine had to be the same make as the sheet metal, and our front spark plug couldn't be over 2" behind a line across the upper ball joints. Beyond that, it was pretty much "run watcha brung". We all ran quick change rear ends. That makes a whole new ballgame out of it.
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