The Pure Stock Muscle Car Drag Race (PSMCDR) is a once a year event. It is for 1957 - 1974 Muscle cars. This has nothing to do with any NHRA pure stock, stock, or factory stock classes. They have their own unique rules and race format. It is an event for fun, there is no money or prizes. Tech is not too intense IMO. They run all best of 3 shootouts against their closest qualifying competitor.
The PSMCDR is the genesis of the Factory Appearing Stock Tire. PSMCDR racers who wanted to look legal, but make undetectable mods went on to start F.A.S.T.
I was one of the original organizers of FAST, one of 4 guys on the the original board of directors. We wrote the rules, designed the race format, organized and ran the events, recruited sponsors, enforced tech, all that stuff. But we got a lot of flak for doing that plus competing. We did it so we could race in a venue that fit our passion for stock appearing muscle cars. If we hadn't, the FAST class, the events, or none of it would exist. And we wouldn't be able to race. But none of us would have done all that work if we couldn't race.
We came up with a really fun race format: It's all true side by side heads up racing with a Pro tree. No handicap starts, no index, brackets, or break out rules, the cars are not weighed, there are no classes within FAST. You make qualifying passes. The quick 8 go into a pro ladder: 1 vs. 8, 2 vs. 7, etc. The winners advance to the next round until we establish the winner. The first round losers go into a consolation ladder to determine a consy winner. Qualifyers 9 and slower go into a best of 3 shootout against their closest qualifying competitor. 9 v. 10, 11 vs. 12, etc. So everyone gets at least 2 rounds of close, heads up racing. The serious racers bring a Hemi or an L88 vette, or something very capable and go for the jugular. The guys with the slower cars are there for fun and get a good close race with a closely matched car. And it's all real racing, no one can lose by going too fast. There are several events per year.
I competed in FAST for 10 years, From the beginning until 2010, running a 426 Hemi, 4 speed 67 GTX. The car was competitive in its day, running 10.80's. Today, that's not enuff.
I don't know how someone could have $100K into an engine. Unless they called up Ray Barton or someone and said "build me an all out, cost is no object FAST engine and I'll pay for all the R&D." or something like that. I had less than 20K into my Hemi and it made 765 horse on the engine dyno using the correct, original exhaust and intake manifolds, carbs, heads, and block. There is so much you are NOT allowed to do, it's hard to spend a lot. Much of the effort is massaging stock parts. If you do it yourself, that is not costly. Yes, you have to buy a roller cam and lifters, good valvetrain parts, reciprocating assembly, etc, but nothing exotic. $1200 to have the stock iron Hemi heads ported, plus the cost of Ti valves. I think I paid about $400 to have the exhaust manifolds extrude honed, and it didn't really do much good. You are still working with a 2-1/2" exhaust system back to the bumper and mufflers.
The biggest limiting factor was the tires. The G70-14 redline bias plys, right out of the Coker catalog are the great equalizer. It doesn't matter how much power you have if you can't hook it to the track.
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