Post by deetz on Mar 28, 2019 10:23:32 GMT -5
Madison county fair presents
MADISON COUNTY BORDER WARS TEAM DEMO
2 MAN TEAM SHOW
DATE:JULY 26TH
Gates open 2pm
Starts 6pm
Team show entry is 150/team preregistered
200/team day of show 30/passenger
Compacts is 40/driver 30/passenger
Payouts for team show are as follows
1st-3000
2nd-1500
3rd-1000
4th-500
5th-200
Compacts
1st-1000
2nd-750
3rd-500
4th-300
5th-200
6th-100
More info found at
www.facebook.com/groups/278723909287300/
Rules for team show
Updated full size team rules
GENERAL RULES
WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RE-INSPECT, CUT, OR DRILL ANY CAR AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT BREAKING THE RULES SET HERE FORTH YOU WILL FORFEIT ANY AND ALL WINNINGS AND OR PRIZES YOU ARE DUE. JUDGES DECISION’S ARE FINAL.
ALL JUDGES DECISIONS ARE FINAL!!!
Please read carefully. If car does not pass inspection or driver is unwilling to change car to pass inspection, absolutely no refunds!!! All rules will be followed or you will not run! If it does not say it in the rules – don’t just assume you can do it. CALL FIRST!!!!
ANY COUNTY FAIR HAS THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ANY ENTRY AND SPECTATOR ADMITTANCE.
2019 Team rules!!
2 CARS PER TEAM
1 OLD IRON- 1 NEWSTYLE
OR
2 NEW STYLES
NO PRERANS!!!
Your allowed only 2 passes through inspection line to correct your car to these rules
AUTOMOBILE BODY REGULATIONS- ALL JUDGES DECISIONS ARE FINAL
1. ANY Passenger car or station wagon only. No trucks, jeeps, hearses, limousines, or checkered cabs. No pre 1973 Chrysler Imperials and no Imperial Sub Frames. No PRE-1973 Lincolns. no 03+ fords.
2. Sedagons are not allowed.
3. All glass, side windows, rear windows, headlights and taillights, must be removed before reaching the track. Rolling down windows is not permitted.
4. Rear seat of sedan must be removed, top and bottom. On station wagons all seats and decking must be removed. Station wagons must be emptied to the floorboards.
5. Cars must have a seatbelt and working brakes. MANDATORY or you won’t be allowed to run.
6. Battery may be moved, but must be securely fastened and covered in passenger compartment. TWO BATTERIES ARE ALLOWED.
A. Battery and gas tank must be tight when coming through inspection line or you wont be inspected.
7. Front Windshield Bar is MANDATORY and is limited to two 2” wide x 1/4" thick straps or two 3/8” chains or two strands of 9 wire. Must be at least 2 inches away from DP!!!!!! May be welded or bolted or both. 6 inches on roof and 6 inches on firewall for attachment. 12” apart measured I.D.
GAS TANKS AND FUEL PUMPS
1. Stock gas tank MUST be removed from original position and mounted in the rear seat area and secured. No rubber or chain straps. All tanks must have a secure cap. A marine tank or fuel cell is strongly recommended. All lines and fitting must be leak proof and meet approval of the track officials. Electric fuel pumps are allowed, with shut off switch marked.
2. All lines must be run inside car, not along the frame underneath.
3. All lines should be double clamped.
4. Battery and gas tank must be tight when coming through inspection line or you wont be inspected.
RADIATOR AND CORE SUPPORT
1. Radiator must be in stock position
2. Any automotive type radiator can be used. Aluminum Radiators are LEGAL.
3. No homemade radiators allowed
4. No reserve tanks and no added cooling capacity.
5. One electric fan, mounted to the radiator, may be used.
6. DO NOT MOVE CORE SUPPORT
7. If you use a core support spacer for your all thread to run through, the spacer may be welded to the frame and it must end at the bottom of core support. 6IN MAX between core support and frame.
8. You are allowed a factory ac condenser or ¼” mesh screen in front of radiator 36” wide, 6 ⅜” bolts or 6 1” welds to hold it in place. Spray foam may be used to protect radiator.
9. No homemade or aftermarket radiator cradles.
10. NO metal/wire/chain in front of radiator, even if used to secure radiator.
BODY
1. No body seams may be welded. No metal may be added.
2. No doubling of body panels allowed, no added metal allowed.
3. Body creasing will be allowed.
4. Body creasing will be limited to the outside of the car body only!!!! No creasing firewalls, trans tunnels, trunk floors, and or etc.
5. Fenders may be bolted together. Max of 10 3/8” BOLTS ABOVE EACH FENDER WELL.
6. Doors may be chained, wired, or welded.front doors may be welded solid. rear doors you may weld them 5 on 5 off 4” wide strap ⅛” thick or filler rod may be used.
7. 9 wire is unlimited from front bumper to core support outside the radiator. You may also add 4 other strands of 9 wire anywhere you wish. Cannot attach to engine or trans protectors.
Body Mounts.
1. You may replace all body mount bolts. You must have a minimum of a 1” gap between body and frame!!! Either use a solid metal spacer, a stack of washers, or the factory rubber spacers. If you use the rubber spacers do not flatten them out where the body is solid to frame or u will be losing bolts at the track!!
2. Body mount washers are to be no larger than 5” by 5” ¼” thick. These plates must remain free floating and up inside the frame as they were from the factory.
3. The 4 in the trunk and the core support may be 3/4”. All other body mount bolts must be 1/2” or smaller.
4. RUST REPAIR WILL BE ALLOWED, SHEET METAL ONLY. NO THICKER THAN FACTORY SHEETMETAL. 2” OVERLAP OF REPAIR. IT MAY BE WELDED OR BOLTED. THIS RULE SHOULD HELP CARS THAT HAVE A RUSTY TRUNK MOUNT OR RUSTY ROOF.
SUSPENSION
1. Suspension must be original factory suspension for a car example…..ford to ford. Spring raisers are allowed, coil springs may be changed or doubled. Aftermarket ball joints and weld in rings are fine.
2. Tie rods must have factory appearing ends, No heims! You may brace the center tube with angle or pipe. Aftermarket is fine but must have a factory type end!
3. INSTEAD OF FIGHTING SPRING RAISERS OR KICKING FRONT SPRINGS I AM GOING TO ALLOW UPPER A ARMS TO BE WELDED DOWN IF YOU WISH. YOU WILL BE ALLOWED 2 PIECES OF 2" WIDE BY 6" LONG 1/4 " PLATE TO SECURE A ARM PER SIDE.
4. No plating up a arms! No ball joint protectors!
5. Factory spindle and A arm swaps are allowed MUST BE CAR TYPE.
HOODS
MUST BE OPEN AT INSPECTION! So don’t come to inspection line with hood bolted down….
1. Hoods must have two (2) holes, at least four (4) inches in diameter on each side of the carburetor. Not directly on top of the carburetor. If the hood is removed, either the fan or fan belt must be removed.
2. Hoods must be open during inspection.
3. Hoods may be secured by 2 pieces of 3/4” all thread outboard the radiator. Cannot be sleeved.
4. You may have 8 total hood bolts! 2 by 2 ¼” angle iron back to back 4” long X ¼” thick with a single ½” bolt or ⅝” bolts sheet metal to sheet metal. If your core support bolts go through the hood that counts as 2. With all thread, then 3 more attachment points down each side of the hood.
5. You may have up to 20 ⅜” bolts to bolt hood cutouts and hood bracing together,
TRUNKS
1. You may use 4 pieces of 3/4" all thread to secure the trunk lid. All thread must go thru factory rear body mounts only. Washers may be no larger than 5 inches in diameter. No sleeving the all thread.
2. Trunk lids may be welded 5” on, 5” off. 4"wide by 1/8” thick strap only or filler rod.
3. The trunk lid must remain on hinges and rear tail light panel must remain vertical.
4. The trunk lid may be v’d in the center, but must remain at least 10” off the trunk floor.
5. TRUNK MUST HAVE TWO 10 by 10 INSPECTION HOLES CUT IN TRUNK LID!!! You may bolt the inspection holes back together with 5 ⅜” bolts.
SAFETY CAGES
1. All cars must have a safety cage and roll over bar.
2. A 4 point cage minimum is required. Your cage must have a dash bar that must be 5” from the firewall and transmission bell housing. Everyone that is running a center bar it must remain 5” off trans tunnel also!!! Your cage must have a bar behind the driver’s seat. You must have (2) side bars and they must not be farther than the rear wheel wells and must not extend past your firewall.
3. DP and or DASH cannot touch any point during or after the derby. You will be disqualified. (I have a new indicator for this)
4. Roll over bar cannot be more than 6” behind driver’s seat. Roll over bar can be bolted or welded to roof in 4 spots.
5. The cage can be welded to sheet metal only. Cage must be in the drivers compartment. CAN BE IN THE DOORS!!!!!! You can have up to four (4) down posts and they may be welded to the top side of frame only!!!!!!! Do not put down tubes in the frame or on the side of the frame!! TOP SIDE ONLY!!! They must be straight up and down and must be no farther forward than the inner front door seam. Basically this means your down tubes cannot be angled to rear humps or the body mount boxes at the firewall!!
6.All Cage material can be made out of 6” pipe or 6” square tubing 1/4" max thickness. This means you get 6 inches of material welded to frame for down tubes!!!
7. Gas tank protectors are allowed. Protector may be as wide as cage and be touching the rear package tray body pan. cannot be welded solid to tray or have kickers off connecting to frame. You may build off of you tank protector to protect your fuel cell. It may not connect to the roof or floorboards in any way! Nothing added to this bar top or bottom
FRAMES
If changing front stub, cut 3 inches behind second cross member bolt hole. When replacing, can overlap 2 ½”, able to weld both sides, but no adding extra metal. Must be of the same make and model.
If restubbing one side of the frame, you are allowed to cut and fit the new frame flush and weld one pass all the way around (butt – fit – weld). Must be of the same make and model. No welding, plating, or reinforcing of the frame except what is posted!
1. allowing seam welds 1/2" wide top and bottom from a arm forward
2. All factory frame holes must be left open.
3. Any reinforcing of frame found will result in disqualification.
4. Sub frame cars cannot be tied together. If you want to run a full frame car, buy a full frame car, don’t build one.
5. You can shorten the front frame only to aid in mounting front bumper. YOU MUST NOT TOUCH FRONT MOUNT!!! Must have 3 ½” of factory frame in front of factory front body mount. This is where your 2 front all thread is installed.
6. Any steering columns will be allowed.
7. Rear frame rails may not be shortened. No added metal.
8. You may chain your rear axle to the frame hump. ( 3/8” max chain) 2 chain lengths may be welded to frame.
9. All cars may be tilted.
10. New style ford may cut and reweld the 3 sides of the crush box that it takes to tilt!!! THAT’S IT
11. 77 and newer gms may have a 22” long ⅜” thick hump plate. This plate must contour the frame. It cannot run straight across!!
12. Sway bars on the front must remain factory mounted to frame!! No Welding!!! Your sway bar may be bolted to lower A arm.
13. No plates on fresh cars execpt to fix/patch rust holes
BUMPERS
1. OEM STOCK shock canister only. ANY BUMPER ON ANY CAR.
2. Bumpers may be welded on. Weld them on good, we do not want to pick them up off the track.
3. YOU MAY BOLT A CHAIN FROM BUMPER TO BUMPER SHOCK AT THE FRAME 3/8 MAX
4. Bumpers can be loaded on inside only (DEC BUMPERS ARE OK)
5. Bumpers can be no higher than 26" from the ground to the top of the bumper or lower than 16" from the ground to the bottom of the bumper.
6. Bumpers may be hardnosed but do not shorten the frame more than #5 above in frame section
7. No welding allowed past factory most rear point of where your bumper bracket used to be for the car you are building.
8. If u do not run factory bumper shocks or brackets for the car you are running you are allowed a 3”wide ⅜” thick 6” long plate to help attach the front bumper. No putting mopar shocks on the front of a new style ford!! See #7 in this section
9. Homemade bumpers are allowed. No more than an 11” point, point must contour (start) to the outer part of the frame. Bumpers must look like a factory bumper. OEM otter chrome skin on them.
ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION
1. Any engine or transmission may be used in any car, but must be mounted within 6” of the original motor. Engine cannot protrude into the passenger compartment before the race.
2. LOWER ENGINE CRADLE ALLOWED may use aftermarket or homemade motor mounts . 2 chains allowed (1 per side of engine, 3/8ths chain max) bolted to engine or cradle and must be welded or bolted to engine cross member of car only, nothing mounting your engine may be attached to frame rails at any point!!!!!
3. Chains will be permitted, but this is only to help hold your engine in place and must meet approval of officials. (Nothing adding strength to car)
4. Transmission oil coolers and engine oil coolers are permitted. They must be secure and contained and covered inside the car, for the driver’s protection.
5. Skid plates are allowed.
6. NO Distributor protectors are allowed. NOTransmission braces IF YOU WISH TO NOT REMOVE YOUR DP, YOU MUST CUT OUT THE FIREWALL 4" WIDEER THAN DP. DP CANNOT COME INTO CONTACT WITH CAGE AT ANY TIME!!
7.HOMEMADE Gas Pedals and Shifters Are Allowed
8. OEM transmission cross member or 2x2 ¼” square tube. 6” of 3” by 3” ¼” angle may be used to mount cross member to frame.
9. 2 ⅝” bolts bolted through tail housing 1 loop of ⅜” chain or 6 inches of weld to attach transmission to trans cross member.
REAR END
1. Any automotive or aftermarket rear end
2. On models originally equipped with leaf springs, springs may be 5/16” thick and must have a 2” stagger.
3. Leaf springs shackles must remain factory and in working condition. May not be solid!!!!
4. Slider drive shaft is permitted.
5. You may have five (5) spring clamps per spring pack. 2” wide with no bigger than 7/16” bolts.
6. Trailing arms may me reinforced , NO homemade arms may be used. Watts conversions are allowed.
7. Pinion brakes permitted
8. No axle savers!
TIRES
1. Any Tires 15 inches or smaller.
2. No solid wheels stock OEM only. YOU MAY WELD IN WHEEL CENTERS for multi lug use. Foam filled or bead locks are allowed, we do not want any flats. Valve stem protectors are allowed.
any questions contact chris at 618-806-5372
MADISON COUNTY BORDER WARS TEAM DEMO
2 MAN TEAM SHOW
DATE:JULY 26TH
Gates open 2pm
Starts 6pm
Team show entry is 150/team preregistered
200/team day of show 30/passenger
Compacts is 40/driver 30/passenger
Payouts for team show are as follows
1st-3000
2nd-1500
3rd-1000
4th-500
5th-200
Compacts
1st-1000
2nd-750
3rd-500
4th-300
5th-200
6th-100
More info found at
www.facebook.com/groups/278723909287300/
Rules for team show
Updated full size team rules
GENERAL RULES
WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RE-INSPECT, CUT, OR DRILL ANY CAR AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT BREAKING THE RULES SET HERE FORTH YOU WILL FORFEIT ANY AND ALL WINNINGS AND OR PRIZES YOU ARE DUE. JUDGES DECISION’S ARE FINAL.
ALL JUDGES DECISIONS ARE FINAL!!!
Please read carefully. If car does not pass inspection or driver is unwilling to change car to pass inspection, absolutely no refunds!!! All rules will be followed or you will not run! If it does not say it in the rules – don’t just assume you can do it. CALL FIRST!!!!
ANY COUNTY FAIR HAS THE RIGHT TO REFUSE ANY ENTRY AND SPECTATOR ADMITTANCE.
2019 Team rules!!
2 CARS PER TEAM
1 OLD IRON- 1 NEWSTYLE
OR
2 NEW STYLES
NO PRERANS!!!
Your allowed only 2 passes through inspection line to correct your car to these rules
AUTOMOBILE BODY REGULATIONS- ALL JUDGES DECISIONS ARE FINAL
1. ANY Passenger car or station wagon only. No trucks, jeeps, hearses, limousines, or checkered cabs. No pre 1973 Chrysler Imperials and no Imperial Sub Frames. No PRE-1973 Lincolns. no 03+ fords.
2. Sedagons are not allowed.
3. All glass, side windows, rear windows, headlights and taillights, must be removed before reaching the track. Rolling down windows is not permitted.
4. Rear seat of sedan must be removed, top and bottom. On station wagons all seats and decking must be removed. Station wagons must be emptied to the floorboards.
5. Cars must have a seatbelt and working brakes. MANDATORY or you won’t be allowed to run.
6. Battery may be moved, but must be securely fastened and covered in passenger compartment. TWO BATTERIES ARE ALLOWED.
A. Battery and gas tank must be tight when coming through inspection line or you wont be inspected.
7. Front Windshield Bar is MANDATORY and is limited to two 2” wide x 1/4" thick straps or two 3/8” chains or two strands of 9 wire. Must be at least 2 inches away from DP!!!!!! May be welded or bolted or both. 6 inches on roof and 6 inches on firewall for attachment. 12” apart measured I.D.
GAS TANKS AND FUEL PUMPS
1. Stock gas tank MUST be removed from original position and mounted in the rear seat area and secured. No rubber or chain straps. All tanks must have a secure cap. A marine tank or fuel cell is strongly recommended. All lines and fitting must be leak proof and meet approval of the track officials. Electric fuel pumps are allowed, with shut off switch marked.
2. All lines must be run inside car, not along the frame underneath.
3. All lines should be double clamped.
4. Battery and gas tank must be tight when coming through inspection line or you wont be inspected.
RADIATOR AND CORE SUPPORT
1. Radiator must be in stock position
2. Any automotive type radiator can be used. Aluminum Radiators are LEGAL.
3. No homemade radiators allowed
4. No reserve tanks and no added cooling capacity.
5. One electric fan, mounted to the radiator, may be used.
6. DO NOT MOVE CORE SUPPORT
7. If you use a core support spacer for your all thread to run through, the spacer may be welded to the frame and it must end at the bottom of core support. 6IN MAX between core support and frame.
8. You are allowed a factory ac condenser or ¼” mesh screen in front of radiator 36” wide, 6 ⅜” bolts or 6 1” welds to hold it in place. Spray foam may be used to protect radiator.
9. No homemade or aftermarket radiator cradles.
10. NO metal/wire/chain in front of radiator, even if used to secure radiator.
BODY
1. No body seams may be welded. No metal may be added.
2. No doubling of body panels allowed, no added metal allowed.
3. Body creasing will be allowed.
4. Body creasing will be limited to the outside of the car body only!!!! No creasing firewalls, trans tunnels, trunk floors, and or etc.
5. Fenders may be bolted together. Max of 10 3/8” BOLTS ABOVE EACH FENDER WELL.
6. Doors may be chained, wired, or welded.front doors may be welded solid. rear doors you may weld them 5 on 5 off 4” wide strap ⅛” thick or filler rod may be used.
7. 9 wire is unlimited from front bumper to core support outside the radiator. You may also add 4 other strands of 9 wire anywhere you wish. Cannot attach to engine or trans protectors.
Body Mounts.
1. You may replace all body mount bolts. You must have a minimum of a 1” gap between body and frame!!! Either use a solid metal spacer, a stack of washers, or the factory rubber spacers. If you use the rubber spacers do not flatten them out where the body is solid to frame or u will be losing bolts at the track!!
2. Body mount washers are to be no larger than 5” by 5” ¼” thick. These plates must remain free floating and up inside the frame as they were from the factory.
3. The 4 in the trunk and the core support may be 3/4”. All other body mount bolts must be 1/2” or smaller.
4. RUST REPAIR WILL BE ALLOWED, SHEET METAL ONLY. NO THICKER THAN FACTORY SHEETMETAL. 2” OVERLAP OF REPAIR. IT MAY BE WELDED OR BOLTED. THIS RULE SHOULD HELP CARS THAT HAVE A RUSTY TRUNK MOUNT OR RUSTY ROOF.
SUSPENSION
1. Suspension must be original factory suspension for a car example…..ford to ford. Spring raisers are allowed, coil springs may be changed or doubled. Aftermarket ball joints and weld in rings are fine.
2. Tie rods must have factory appearing ends, No heims! You may brace the center tube with angle or pipe. Aftermarket is fine but must have a factory type end!
3. INSTEAD OF FIGHTING SPRING RAISERS OR KICKING FRONT SPRINGS I AM GOING TO ALLOW UPPER A ARMS TO BE WELDED DOWN IF YOU WISH. YOU WILL BE ALLOWED 2 PIECES OF 2" WIDE BY 6" LONG 1/4 " PLATE TO SECURE A ARM PER SIDE.
4. No plating up a arms! No ball joint protectors!
5. Factory spindle and A arm swaps are allowed MUST BE CAR TYPE.
HOODS
MUST BE OPEN AT INSPECTION! So don’t come to inspection line with hood bolted down….
1. Hoods must have two (2) holes, at least four (4) inches in diameter on each side of the carburetor. Not directly on top of the carburetor. If the hood is removed, either the fan or fan belt must be removed.
2. Hoods must be open during inspection.
3. Hoods may be secured by 2 pieces of 3/4” all thread outboard the radiator. Cannot be sleeved.
4. You may have 8 total hood bolts! 2 by 2 ¼” angle iron back to back 4” long X ¼” thick with a single ½” bolt or ⅝” bolts sheet metal to sheet metal. If your core support bolts go through the hood that counts as 2. With all thread, then 3 more attachment points down each side of the hood.
5. You may have up to 20 ⅜” bolts to bolt hood cutouts and hood bracing together,
TRUNKS
1. You may use 4 pieces of 3/4" all thread to secure the trunk lid. All thread must go thru factory rear body mounts only. Washers may be no larger than 5 inches in diameter. No sleeving the all thread.
2. Trunk lids may be welded 5” on, 5” off. 4"wide by 1/8” thick strap only or filler rod.
3. The trunk lid must remain on hinges and rear tail light panel must remain vertical.
4. The trunk lid may be v’d in the center, but must remain at least 10” off the trunk floor.
5. TRUNK MUST HAVE TWO 10 by 10 INSPECTION HOLES CUT IN TRUNK LID!!! You may bolt the inspection holes back together with 5 ⅜” bolts.
SAFETY CAGES
1. All cars must have a safety cage and roll over bar.
2. A 4 point cage minimum is required. Your cage must have a dash bar that must be 5” from the firewall and transmission bell housing. Everyone that is running a center bar it must remain 5” off trans tunnel also!!! Your cage must have a bar behind the driver’s seat. You must have (2) side bars and they must not be farther than the rear wheel wells and must not extend past your firewall.
3. DP and or DASH cannot touch any point during or after the derby. You will be disqualified. (I have a new indicator for this)
4. Roll over bar cannot be more than 6” behind driver’s seat. Roll over bar can be bolted or welded to roof in 4 spots.
5. The cage can be welded to sheet metal only. Cage must be in the drivers compartment. CAN BE IN THE DOORS!!!!!! You can have up to four (4) down posts and they may be welded to the top side of frame only!!!!!!! Do not put down tubes in the frame or on the side of the frame!! TOP SIDE ONLY!!! They must be straight up and down and must be no farther forward than the inner front door seam. Basically this means your down tubes cannot be angled to rear humps or the body mount boxes at the firewall!!
6.All Cage material can be made out of 6” pipe or 6” square tubing 1/4" max thickness. This means you get 6 inches of material welded to frame for down tubes!!!
7. Gas tank protectors are allowed. Protector may be as wide as cage and be touching the rear package tray body pan. cannot be welded solid to tray or have kickers off connecting to frame. You may build off of you tank protector to protect your fuel cell. It may not connect to the roof or floorboards in any way! Nothing added to this bar top or bottom
FRAMES
If changing front stub, cut 3 inches behind second cross member bolt hole. When replacing, can overlap 2 ½”, able to weld both sides, but no adding extra metal. Must be of the same make and model.
If restubbing one side of the frame, you are allowed to cut and fit the new frame flush and weld one pass all the way around (butt – fit – weld). Must be of the same make and model. No welding, plating, or reinforcing of the frame except what is posted!
1. allowing seam welds 1/2" wide top and bottom from a arm forward
2. All factory frame holes must be left open.
3. Any reinforcing of frame found will result in disqualification.
4. Sub frame cars cannot be tied together. If you want to run a full frame car, buy a full frame car, don’t build one.
5. You can shorten the front frame only to aid in mounting front bumper. YOU MUST NOT TOUCH FRONT MOUNT!!! Must have 3 ½” of factory frame in front of factory front body mount. This is where your 2 front all thread is installed.
6. Any steering columns will be allowed.
7. Rear frame rails may not be shortened. No added metal.
8. You may chain your rear axle to the frame hump. ( 3/8” max chain) 2 chain lengths may be welded to frame.
9. All cars may be tilted.
10. New style ford may cut and reweld the 3 sides of the crush box that it takes to tilt!!! THAT’S IT
11. 77 and newer gms may have a 22” long ⅜” thick hump plate. This plate must contour the frame. It cannot run straight across!!
12. Sway bars on the front must remain factory mounted to frame!! No Welding!!! Your sway bar may be bolted to lower A arm.
13. No plates on fresh cars execpt to fix/patch rust holes
BUMPERS
1. OEM STOCK shock canister only. ANY BUMPER ON ANY CAR.
2. Bumpers may be welded on. Weld them on good, we do not want to pick them up off the track.
3. YOU MAY BOLT A CHAIN FROM BUMPER TO BUMPER SHOCK AT THE FRAME 3/8 MAX
4. Bumpers can be loaded on inside only (DEC BUMPERS ARE OK)
5. Bumpers can be no higher than 26" from the ground to the top of the bumper or lower than 16" from the ground to the bottom of the bumper.
6. Bumpers may be hardnosed but do not shorten the frame more than #5 above in frame section
7. No welding allowed past factory most rear point of where your bumper bracket used to be for the car you are building.
8. If u do not run factory bumper shocks or brackets for the car you are running you are allowed a 3”wide ⅜” thick 6” long plate to help attach the front bumper. No putting mopar shocks on the front of a new style ford!! See #7 in this section
9. Homemade bumpers are allowed. No more than an 11” point, point must contour (start) to the outer part of the frame. Bumpers must look like a factory bumper. OEM otter chrome skin on them.
ENGINE AND TRANSMISSION
1. Any engine or transmission may be used in any car, but must be mounted within 6” of the original motor. Engine cannot protrude into the passenger compartment before the race.
2. LOWER ENGINE CRADLE ALLOWED may use aftermarket or homemade motor mounts . 2 chains allowed (1 per side of engine, 3/8ths chain max) bolted to engine or cradle and must be welded or bolted to engine cross member of car only, nothing mounting your engine may be attached to frame rails at any point!!!!!
3. Chains will be permitted, but this is only to help hold your engine in place and must meet approval of officials. (Nothing adding strength to car)
4. Transmission oil coolers and engine oil coolers are permitted. They must be secure and contained and covered inside the car, for the driver’s protection.
5. Skid plates are allowed.
6. NO Distributor protectors are allowed. NOTransmission braces IF YOU WISH TO NOT REMOVE YOUR DP, YOU MUST CUT OUT THE FIREWALL 4" WIDEER THAN DP. DP CANNOT COME INTO CONTACT WITH CAGE AT ANY TIME!!
7.HOMEMADE Gas Pedals and Shifters Are Allowed
8. OEM transmission cross member or 2x2 ¼” square tube. 6” of 3” by 3” ¼” angle may be used to mount cross member to frame.
9. 2 ⅝” bolts bolted through tail housing 1 loop of ⅜” chain or 6 inches of weld to attach transmission to trans cross member.
REAR END
1. Any automotive or aftermarket rear end
2. On models originally equipped with leaf springs, springs may be 5/16” thick and must have a 2” stagger.
3. Leaf springs shackles must remain factory and in working condition. May not be solid!!!!
4. Slider drive shaft is permitted.
5. You may have five (5) spring clamps per spring pack. 2” wide with no bigger than 7/16” bolts.
6. Trailing arms may me reinforced , NO homemade arms may be used. Watts conversions are allowed.
7. Pinion brakes permitted
8. No axle savers!
TIRES
1. Any Tires 15 inches or smaller.
2. No solid wheels stock OEM only. YOU MAY WELD IN WHEEL CENTERS for multi lug use. Foam filled or bead locks are allowed, we do not want any flats. Valve stem protectors are allowed.
any questions contact chris at 618-806-5372