"Street Car" versus "Race Car" Debate...
- Must be plated
- Must have stock cat
- Can't run any kind of cat-fouling leaded gas
- Can't have a louder-than-stock exhaust
- Take all the weight out you want, but you can't mess up the safety features - ABS in, crash beams in
- Any tires you want, as long as you can drive them legally on the street where you live
- No one can ever call their car a street car if they can't drive it in the rain, so no low-down air filters, funny holes in the hood or the like
How to define a race car: The IHRA has a rule that says that you need a 5 or 6-point roll bar and a 5-point safety harness for 11.49 or below (11.99 under NHRA rules). I have a rule:
- Roll bar required = race car
So there you go: 11.49 or below is a race car, and at that point the sky's the limit as to what you can do.
BTW, I've read a bunch of threads about people running 10's and 9's on 93 octane and street-like tires. At 10.0 and below, NHRA requires (as I read it) a full cage, a net, a battery cut-off switch, and chassis certification. Lots of these cars are running at Norwalk as Buschur Racing customers - why is the track allowing these passes to take place?
Tom
I gotta jump in... a street car:
- Must be plated
- Must have stock cat
- Can't run any kind of cat-fouling leaded gas
- Can't have a louder-than-stock exhaust
- Take all the weight out you want, but you can't mess up the safety features - ABS in, crash beams in
- Any tires you want, as long as you can drive them legally on the street where you live
- No one can ever call their car a street car if they can't drive it in the rain, so no low-down air filters, funny holes in the hood or the like
How to define a race car: The IHRA has a rule that says that you need a 5 or 6-point roll bar and a 5-point safety harness for 11.49 or below (11.99 under NHRA rules). I have a rule:
- Roll bar required = race car
So there you go: 11.49 or below is a race car, and at that point the sky's the limit as to what you can do.
BTW, I've read a bunch of threads about people running 10's and 9's on 93 octane and street-like tires. At 10.0 and below, NHRA requires (as I read it) a full cage, a net, a battery cut-off switch, and chassis certification. Lots of these cars are running at Norwalk as Buschur Racing customers - why is the track allowing these passes to take place?
Tom
- Must be plated
- Must have stock cat
- Can't run any kind of cat-fouling leaded gas
- Can't have a louder-than-stock exhaust
- Take all the weight out you want, but you can't mess up the safety features - ABS in, crash beams in
- Any tires you want, as long as you can drive them legally on the street where you live
- No one can ever call their car a street car if they can't drive it in the rain, so no low-down air filters, funny holes in the hood or the like
How to define a race car: The IHRA has a rule that says that you need a 5 or 6-point roll bar and a 5-point safety harness for 11.49 or below (11.99 under NHRA rules). I have a rule:
- Roll bar required = race car
So there you go: 11.49 or below is a race car, and at that point the sky's the limit as to what you can do.
BTW, I've read a bunch of threads about people running 10's and 9's on 93 octane and street-like tires. At 10.0 and below, NHRA requires (as I read it) a full cage, a net, a battery cut-off switch, and chassis certification. Lots of these cars are running at Norwalk as Buschur Racing customers - why is the track allowing these passes to take place?
Tom
"street cars" should have a full cooling system (i.e. radiator attached). registered of course, and not trailer-ed, the 3 aforementioned should pretty much justify it being a street car.
Tom
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I gotta jump in... a street car:
- Must be plated
- Must have stock cat
- Can't run any kind of cat-fouling leaded gas
- Can't have a louder-than-stock exhaust
- Take all the weight out you want, but you can't mess up the safety features - ABS in, crash beams in
- Any tires you want, as long as you can drive them legally on the street where you live
- No one can ever call their car a street car if they can't drive it in the rain, so no low-down air filters, funny holes in the hood or the like
How to define a race car: The IHRA has a rule that says that you need a 5 or 6-point roll bar and a 5-point safety harness for 11.49 or below (11.99 under NHRA rules). I have a rule:
- Roll bar required = race car
So there you go: 11.49 or below is a race car, and at that point the sky's the limit as to what you can do.
BTW, I've read a bunch of threads about people running 10's and 9's on 93 octane and street-like tires. At 10.0 and below, NHRA requires (as I read it) a full cage, a net, a battery cut-off switch, and chassis certification. Lots of these cars are running at Norwalk as Buschur Racing customers - why is the track allowing these passes to take place?
Tom
- Must be plated
- Must have stock cat
- Can't run any kind of cat-fouling leaded gas
- Can't have a louder-than-stock exhaust
- Take all the weight out you want, but you can't mess up the safety features - ABS in, crash beams in
- Any tires you want, as long as you can drive them legally on the street where you live
- No one can ever call their car a street car if they can't drive it in the rain, so no low-down air filters, funny holes in the hood or the like
How to define a race car: The IHRA has a rule that says that you need a 5 or 6-point roll bar and a 5-point safety harness for 11.49 or below (11.99 under NHRA rules). I have a rule:
- Roll bar required = race car
So there you go: 11.49 or below is a race car, and at that point the sky's the limit as to what you can do.
BTW, I've read a bunch of threads about people running 10's and 9's on 93 octane and street-like tires. At 10.0 and below, NHRA requires (as I read it) a full cage, a net, a battery cut-off switch, and chassis certification. Lots of these cars are running at Norwalk as Buschur Racing customers - why is the track allowing these passes to take place?
Tom
You can drive thru other states as long as your registered in FL.. I run E-85 in my EVO so i am looking out for the environment even w/o the cat..
