2015 Proposed Rules are here!

[squirrel]

http://www.hotrod.com/dragweek/hot_rod_drag_week_2015_proposed_rules_are_here/

have fun!

[milner351]

hmmm
interesting changes - ALL fast cars go to impound every day after handing in their first FAST time slip.


Am I reading right that there is no more restriction to the vintage of engine in the hot-rod class?
that completely spoils the spirit of that class IMHO - I understand them wanting to expand it - but I don't want to see a bunch of old cars with LS in them.....

[squirrel]

Hot Rod is pretty much wide open. Nice!

and Blown Gasser is a separate class....YES!!!!!!!!!!!

[RockJustRock]

Interesting how Pro Street becomes the stock body Unlimited class. If that is true why not allow methanol and why all the tire size drama? Where does a radical small tire or radial tire car run? A lot of fairground cruisers ran methanol way back into the '80s so it is part of the image. Also, e-mail DF if you want changes? C'mon when we have forums to thrash it about in?

Squirrel: No wheelie bars?

[c2xejk]

I thought this was interesting:

"In Small-Block classes, engine displacement must be 430 ci and below, and the engine may not be a Mopar Hemi...."

So a Gen 3 Hemi (5.7L engine) is a big block???

[greenXpress]

I'll need to add a bar and a big bunch of PONIES if I am to reach my goal of quickest 32 in Daily Driver.............(I know, DD is just a filler class)

[RockJustRock]

And just count the Anti Chad and Larry rules. Also I'd suggest some kind of catastrophic complication variance on the impound thing. I mean a guy blows up or screws up his s**t big time and it's just him and the co-pilot fixing it?

[squirrel]

They have no problem with Larry and Chad. It's the rest of the team.....

[JWS4621]

WHEELS AND TIRES
•On the dragstrip, Street Race cars must use D.O.T.-marked drag radials with a metric section width no greater than 325 as designated by the manufacturer on the sidewall.


This is on the Street race classes. No et streets or bias slicks? That is not cool.

[milner351]

I think the drag radial and the 10.5" wheel thing are going to get ALLOT of backlash.

[clarks body shop]

Well ,Looks like DD for me next year time to turn it down. Rules suck!!

[BBR]

I thought this was interesting:

"In Small-Block classes, engine displacement must be 430 ci and below, and the engine may not be a Mopar Hemi...."

So a Gen 3 Hemi (5.7L engine) is a big block???

No. That rule has been there for years. They are talking about the the Gen2 426 Hemis.


I don't like the drag radial only requirement for Super/Street Race. I don't know why they came up with that. I like my bias ply stuff. Want to run a regular slick? Then it's off to DD or Unlimited.

DD needs a 'drag tire' requirement.

[JWS4621]

I am going to run unlimited. I have as much chance of winning there as getting into the quick 32

[Russell]

So your mule has to also run 8.50 or better (how fast can a 15 passenger van go with a turbo LS7?) (Edit: if money is no object buy the crew a fast car) I dont under stand the hate on the slicks either. DD is now a 10.0 class. Hope it comes back to the East I would love to hang out with the racers for a day or two!

[tsanchez]

Looks like modified is being rolled into super street , and I will need new tires and build a new engine under 430 inches. I could put leafs back in and run street race small block...

My buddies car is going to only work in unlimited, but will barely be a 8.0 car, all because of the floor otherwise it would be superstreet small block power adder.