Bad Ass Pro Mod Mustangs for 2012!

[OldMachinist]

I should have included some of the wedge headed guys that are running and there are a few. Hell, this weekend the top qualifier was Mike Castellana in a nitrous car with a wedge in it!

Cool! I think you misunderstand what I am getting at. Makes no difference to me what kind of heads, how many cylinders or anything else a car is running as long as the body and engine were produced by the same manufacturer.
I qualified that earlier with a year cutoff as I really like to see some of the manufacturer body styles like Willys, Henry J and Austin etc. and they obviously never produced engines suitable for todays racing classes. I just wish the rules were structered so they could be competitive stock appearing in pro mod. Also include stock appearing shoeboxes and all manufacturer body styles from the 60's and whatever other body styles do it for you.

[OldMachinist]

I actually dislike pro stock and prefer pro mod and I have wondered why "Pontiacs" are in pro stock when they are no longer produced. My complaint is the way they don't look like the car they are supposed to represent. I like the older cars best and the pro mods look nothing like the original cars because of the older cars poor aerodynamics. I just don't see a good way for the older bodies to compete in their stock form without some sort of weight break or something but then everyone percieves that they are getting the short end of the rules and you have a lot of complaints. It seems like the trend in pro mod in NHRA is 1st gen camaros which I like but they are like belly buttons. Everyone has one. I like some variety in race cars which seems opposite of todays trends.
If you want to see something that doesn't look any thing like a "stock" car look at a dirt late model. Maybe thats what needs to happen in all forms of racing-just forget about looking any thing like what has been produced by car manufacturers and have restrictions based on dimensions. Oh wait, thats what open wheel is all about.

[Brian Lohnes]

I should have included some of the wedge headed guys that are running and there are a few. Hell, this weekend the top qualifier was Mike Castellana in a nitrous car with a wedge in it!

[Dan Barlow]

They just hate putting Rat motors in them.

[Brian Lohnes]

I love Pro Mods, so I guess I am biased but they haven't looked like "real" cars in about, ohhhh, 20 years. They have doors, full suspensions under them, and cover the quarter mile in the 5's at over 250mph. I dig that.

Steve Matusek's car has an honest to god turbo'd modular motor in it and went in the 5.90s in Gainesville! That rules. My buddy Pete Farber's Charger Dayonta went one slot quicker than him with a screw blown alky hemi in his car.

Pro Stocks are not aero blobs? Go down to the local Pontiac dealer and look at a GXP...oh wait. Bad example.

Larry Morgan's Mustang is kind of blobby in my book, but to each their own.

Not liking a class or whatever is a personal thing and everyone in the world is entitled to their view and opinion. I respect anyone's views on this. I just like the debate.

As as aside, the number of guys running Pro Mods in the US is probably on the magnitude of 10:1 or greater when compared to Pro Stocks.

[Scott Liggett]

If they want the full boogie aero, might as well pro mod a Prius. It's already shaped like a cockroach.

[OldMachinist]

They have that class. It is called stock eliminator.

And super stock and pro stock. I get that and your response from a marketing point of view it's all about the show and needing manufacturer involvment. It just seems to me if you as a manufacturer support your body with an engine based on another manufacturers engine you are a liar!

The reshaped and stretched body didn't help it looks at all. Ugh. Almost as bad as Force so called Mustang FC's.

That is a real turnoff for me. The pro stocks aren't stock but at least look somewhat like a stock car. These other classes that allow cars to look like an aerodynamic blob are so wrong. I don't care so much about ultimate performance numbers, I like cars to look like something that at least at some time spent some time on the street. If it slows them down a half second or a second so be it.

[Scott Liggett]

The reshaped and stretched body didn't help it looks at all. Ugh. Almost as bad as Force so called Mustang FC's.

[Brian Lohnes]

They have that class. It is called stock eliminator.

[OldMachinist]

I think anything after say 1946-50 should run the same engine manufacturer as the body , especially in NHRA Funny Car. That should mean original bearing size, bore spacing, deck height, head bolt location, combustion chamber type and valve train type. I see a lot of complaining about NASCAR not being stock cars and I agree but whats good for them should be good for NHRA. That should also include Top Fuel. If you have a car manufacturers name or dealershop on your car, run that manufacturer's engine. I want to see a Toyota FC engine with production engine dimensions.

[Shawn Anderson]

I really liked in the late 90's when there were nitrous cars and blower cars running similar numbers

[SpiderGearsMan]

Why don't they run Ford engines in those "Mustangs"?

well ...........

[SpiderGearsMan]

pro mod went down the tubes when they started letting alcohol funny car engines in ..nitrous and carbs

[Shawn Anderson]

Why don't they run Ford engines in those "Mustangs"?

I think pro mod is going in the direction of top fuel, I did read some years back when they started allowing hemi engines in pro mod (witch were not legal for many years) that the car were not any faster but were more durable and less exspensive to run. Looking forward to the Don Waslsh Jr./ Brad Anderson/ John Meaney effort be great if they ran some ADRL races

[ksj2]

Matuseks red one is Ford powered.The others not so much.