The future of Super Stock

[ernie]

As long as there is more than one type of car. Maybe it's time to go with a common chassis and then put whatever stock body parts from whatever car you want on it. I would just hate to loose, what I called earlier, the character of the SS class. This is where the trucks have an advatage as you can still stay mostly stock with newer vehicles. I think we all know the days of getting a bone yard car and throwing a roll cage in it are gone but to go with a car that looks like the one that started this thread.........not my cup of tea as a fan.

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[blackmagic]

All the parts are plastic or aluminum are composite and have you ever seen what $500 buys you for a parts car? Heres an example of you get and don't forget 2 hours of driving one way to get it

I coulda sold you a better one than that for $500 and it's not 2 hour drive

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[ditner61]

I like that 88 monte body, i only your rules would let up a little to stock "appearing" from orginal OEM.

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[jworacing]

Black magic you should have posted it then  Any way the S2 bodie is pretty much the same as the ARP isn't it. And you never said what Jeff said about the S2 body. OBTW my sponsor (NAPA) gave me great deal on a pair of Cross Canada quarters

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[Snotrod-50]

APC deals with cross canada as well.  used them a few times and prices were very reasonable

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[jworacing]

Yah the quarters were cheap but not the fenders so were going to fix up some crappy old ones for spares.

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[tigeraid]

for what it's worth, the Five Star metric body panels are pretty affordable.  Not "found a $200 parts car" affordable, but for new body panels, they're quite good.

The problem is that Nova and Camaro bodies are becoming scarce.  Up north it's actually kind of hard to find Street Stock/Super Stock classes that have a Nova in them, and very few Camaros--almost entirely Metric cars, because they're still slightly more common.

What we started doing the last couple of years at North Bay (not that that's saying much) is allow the use of late model body panels on "similar" old cars.  So we started having the Camaro guys cut the car away and replace most of it with body panels from 3rd gen f-bodies (82-92), and Metric guys cut away the front end and most of the rear, and replaced them with fenders/bumper covers/noses from Luminas and Monte Carlos (89-98ish).

When done RIGHT (most were, some were not) the cars looked basically like slightly stretched/more square versions of the 1990s cars.

And god knows there's a ton of Luminas and FWD Monte Carlos in junkyards.

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[jcrashm2]

camaro for $200
http://hamilton.kijiji.ca/c-cars-vehicles-cars-1987-Buick-Regal-Coupe-2-door-W0QQAdIdZ190196691

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[jworacing]

Flamboror is making high performance axles mandatory...at least on the right rear. That's a positive step in the right direction. Kudos to Flamboro Managment for a brilliant decision

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[larue]

Flamboror is making high performance axles mandatory...at least on the right rear. That's a positive step in the right direction. Kudos to Flamboro Managment for a brilliant decision

Great idea for sure,Mark Dilley at Sunset Speedway was the first to make both axles mandatory,all tracks need to follow suit or allow the 9" differential.
Mark has also made steel plating on the drivers door bars mandatory.

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[larue]

5 star makes a steel body impala body,iam thinking you just might be seeing one of these, this year at one of your local race tracks that allow any steel body as per the rule

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[larue]

 Chevrolet >  Impala >  Straight-Up Steel (older style Late Model Stock)
Straight-Up Steel (older style Late Model Stock)
These older style straight-up steel Impala body panels are available on a limited basis, while stock lasts. We recommend that our customers running these bodies update to the new Late Model Stock (LMSC) Impala
 

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[larue]

Here is Sunset's body rule.



·         Body must be steel and stock in appearance to the original vehicle. 

·         Tires must be inside fenders & scrub rails.   

·         Bodies may be interchanged between make and model


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[ernie]

Here is Sunset's body rule.



·         Body must be steel and stock in appearance to the original vehicle. 

·         Tires must be inside fenders & scrub rails.   

·         Bodies may be interchanged between make and model

How do rule 1 and rule 3 work together? Do you have a common chassis spec? Does the engine make have to match the body?
With rule two are there body templates? Making a car wider or the scrub rail fat doesn't seem like it would be a problem to me.

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[jworacing]

1&3 do work together...Its like you could put a stock body of 97 monte on a '85 rear wheel drive frame. In the south allot of tracks are allowing the use of stock FWD bodies on Stock RWD chassis

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