Stock/Cruiser

 

Body

1.  Any stock American made steel top cars or station wagons. No convertibles, jeeps, hearses, limos, front wheel drives, el Caminos, rancheros or trucks.

            2. No swapping of bodies. Body and frame must match.

3. All bodies must be bolted down using factory body mount holes. Body bushings may be removed. No welding of body to frame from cowl area to rear of car, radiator core support may be welded down to frame.

4. Radiator core support may be removed and replaced with 2X2 angle iron or 1 3/4" roll bar tubing. Must be in line with, or behind radiator and vertical. Top support can go from fender to fender. Angle brackets rearward must stay in front of A-frame. One 1 3/4" pipe between frame rails directly in front of radiator allowed.

            5. All bodies must have original steel firewall.

6. May have steel no thicker than 3/16" under drivers seat and leg area or from center hump to rocker panel welded or bolted to body or cage. Must retain stock floor on passenger side of car.

            7. No welding of floor pan to frame.

            8. All holes in firewall and rear seat area must be covered with metal.

            9. Both doors must be welded, chained, or bolted shut.

            10. Trunk must open.

11. Drivers door only can be reinforced from outside. A single rub bar no bigger than 1X3" and stretching no longer than from wheel to wheel may be installed, by bolting or welding to both sides. A steel plate no thicker than 1/8" may be welded from wheel to wheel, and from rocker panel up the side of door 18" on drivers side only.

            12. Driver and passenger compartment must remain open. No enclosed cockpits.

13. No reinforcing of any kind on the inside of front fenders, passenger side door, or either side rear quarter panel. No pipe or steel plate.

14. Single body steel. All body repairs must be done with thin sheet metal. No plating. Any patching of body must be no more than 1/16" thick and no more than 2" from damaged area.

15. All glass, plastic, upholstery, lights, mirrors, molding, and chrome must be removed.

16. Car numbers on both doors and roof plate and easily read.  No spray painted numbers. Number plate on roof is mandatory. Numbers on roof plate must be at least 10" tall. Letter may appear behind number and must be at least 6" tall. No four digit numbers allowed.

17. No adding of ballast or weight of any kind anywhere in the car. In frames, bumpers, body, etc.

            18. A 3/8" rod may be welded around fender openings.

 

Frame

 

1. Repair of rails from rust or damage from center hump of rear axle forward must be of 1/4" flat steel or less, no angle, channel, or box iron.

2. Center of rear axle to back bumper can be replaced with 2X3" box tubing no thicker than 1/4" in stock location.

            3. Rear frame rails must be able to safely support bumper and protect fuel tank.

            4. Unibody cars can connect front and rear rails together with 2X3" box tubing.

            5. All repairs must be approved by racing inspector.

            6. May X brace rear frame from center hump to rear bumper.

 

Roll Cage

 

            1. Minimum of 4 point cage securely welded to frame.

            2. Rear kicker is allowed, but must stay in trunk area.

            3. May have 2 small bars from front of cage to behind A-Arms.

            4. No bars or reinforcement whatsoever from A-Arms ahead.

5. Must have at least 3 drivers’ side door bars. (Cruisers need door bars on both sides)

Safety is priority. Cages will be inspected; cages appearing unsafe will not race.

 

Fuel Tanks

 

            1. Must be in trunk area.

            2. Original tank must be removed.

            3. Tank must be designed for fuel, no homemade fuel tanks.

            4. No 5 gallon buckets, or cans allowed.

            5. Boat or plastic tanks okay, but must be inside metal box.

6. Fuel cells recommended, but not mandatory. If using a fuel cell with capacity of over 5 gallons please try to limit to 8 gallons of fuel.

            7. All fuel cells or tanks must be securely fastened down.

 

Fuel

 

            1. No racing fuel or aviation fuel, pump gas only.

            2. Fuel line inside drivers’ area must be inside metal tubing.

            3. No E-85.

 

Fuel Tank Protection

 

1. May weld in a bar no wider than frame rails across back of trunk with 2 bars going down and 2 bars going ahead to frame or cage kicker bars to form a cage around fuel tank for protection, bars can be no larger than 2". Not required.

 

Bumpers

 

            1. Must be stock car bumpers only.

            2. No reinforcing inside of bumpers.

            3. Must be bolted to frame.

4. Bumper ends must be capped and welded to the body with small straps of metal no taller than the bumper. Safety chaining of bumpers is allowed.

            5. If using plastic nose must use an O.E.M. bumper.

 

Rear Ends

 

            1. Stock. Can be welded posi.

 

Brakes

 

            1. All four must work. O.E.M. brakes only. Must lock up on inspection.

            2. No aftermarket brake pedal setups.

 

Shocks

 

            1. Stock. No racing shock, no coil over shocks.

            2. Must be mounted in stock location and mounts.

 

Springs

 

            1. Stock. Stock mounts, stock location, and no spacers.

 

Suspension

 

            1. Stock upper and lower A frames.

            2. Stock rear end control arms.

 

Steering

 

            1. No quick steer.

 

Drive Shafts

 

            1. Must be painted white. Must have at least 1 strap or chain under drive shaft.

 

Battery

 

            1. One automotive type battery.

            2. Securely fastened down and covered inside battery box.

 

Wheels and Tires

 

            1. Must use 1" lug nuts.

            2. Can use any rim/racing wheels are legal. No bead locks.

3. Four ply radial passenger car tires and racing tires are legal. No larger than a G60. Maximum of 8" wheel.

            4. No mud tires.

            5. Protection around valve stem allowed.

 

Radiator

 

            1. Radiator in stock location.

 

Engine

 

            1. GM-GM, Ford-Ford, Mopar-Mopar.

            2. Stock means stock.

            3. Cast iron factory heads. No aluminum heads, no aftermarket heads

            4. Flat top or dish pistons only.

            5. No roller rockers or roller tip rockers. No roller cams.

            6. Cast iron factory intakes. No aluminum intakes.

7. Direct bolt on carburetor, no adapter plates, may run 4 barrel carburetor. Must be GM-GM, Ford-Ford, Mopar-Mopar, O.E.M. fuel injected engines allowed. Electric fuel pumps must have roll over or crash shut off.

            8. Cast iron exhaust manifolds with exhaust under car.

            9. Engines need to be in stock location.

            10. Stock ignitions.

            11. Engine must be able to carry 15 inches of vacuum at 1,000 RPM's.

            12. Factory steel pulleys only.