You gotta love NHRA stockers. These are stock suspension cars with after market parts. Essentially stock displacement motors with a stock lift cam with any duartion. The heads are not ported and only have a three angle valve job. Any converter and gear set up.

I hope the links work.

http://www.superstockforum.com/davebridgewater.jpg

http://www.superstockforum.com/jeffhefler.jpg

 

I'm drooling over the rigs in the background of the first pic. Someday... someday...

 

If you are talking about the 2 LS1 cars that run 9s in the NHRA Stock class they are not near stock displacement. I know one of them is running 420+cid.

 

Sax1031 - I am not sure where you got your info. There have been 3 legal NHRA stockers run in the 9's. Joe Aluise in a A/SA Hemi car, someone in a 1969 Camaro 427 in A/SA and Al Corda in a LS1 Firebird in A/FIA.

These cars are very close to stock displacement. It is my understanding (as I don't currently have the rules in front of me) that they are allowed a slight overbore only (Maybe 30 thousandths). The cam is stock lift with any duartion, stock heads, stock throttle body, non ported intake. Aftermakert pistons, rods and crank are allowed. They run open exhaust.

Woodro Josey is a big time NHRA Stock racer running in B/FIA with an LT-1 motor. An article from a year ago saif that his car made 402rwhp and runs in the low 10's at 125 mph at about 3,250 lbs. I will try to find it and post the details. It is amazing the ET's that they get with not a bunch of horsepower. It is almost all in the 60' time. These cars have a lot of time spent in the converter, gearing, suspension areas and computer/fuel injection area.

 

I got everything mixed up man sorry about that.

At ls1.com they said the LS1 only made 342rwhp, the one that ran 9s.

 

Bobby D'Armond was the first real nine sec stocker with the 69 A/SA Camaro. He did this a couple years ago at Mission in B.C. Canada. Big Al Corda is the only other stocker the actually has a 9.xx on his time slip. The first "factored" run with a 9 was by a Ford but his slip had a 10.xx on it and he has never been able to post a nine on the board. Aluise hasn't run a 9 in a class legal stocker, you may be thinking of his Top Stock car which that class allows essentially Super Stock heads and intakes among other things not allowed on a Stock class car.

 

heh... i pulled a taller wheelstand than the red car in the 2nd pic the other weekend. difference is, those guys dont break a bunch of **** when they land like i did

 

Funny thing. The red car is Jeff Hefflers old car. It is doing that big wheel stand using the Competition Engineering "lift bars". Who says that they don't work? They just break a lot!!

Daren

 

Very impressive either way.

 

Yeah, gotta love those wheelstands. It's amazing what they can do with very limited possibilities. At least one of those cars has 5.14 gears, 5000 stall, and he crosses the stripe at 7800 rpm. Runs high 10's.

I believe they're allowed .070 overbore. And I'm pretty sure they have to weigh at least the manufacturer's shipping weight. Obviously, the trick being to take out unsprung weight and replace it with stuff like a roll bar, subframe connectors.

Stocke Eliminator is a cool class. Wish I could afford it.