GENERAL REGULATIONS

Effective Jan. 1, 2006, where a Snell-rated helmet is required in NHRA competition, the Snell 90 helmets will no longer be allowed.
— Translation: Your Snell 90 helmet is now junk.

Any vehicle that runs faster than 135 mph must meet minimum requirements for 9.99-second vehicles, which include an NHRA chassis certification, NHRA competition license, and updated safety requirements.
— Translation: After all the years you avoided having to buy the safety equipment for a 9.99 or quicker machine because your fast street car wouldn't hook up on street tires, you now must pay.




The Protective Clothing section states which jacket and/or pants are needed for 10.00 and slower and 9.99 and quicker supercharged, turbocharged, or nitrous-equipped cars, with or without a full OEM or .024-inch steel firewall.
— Translation: ...and you're going to be buying more stuff, too.

Plastic brackets to secure bottles filled with nitrous oxide are prohibited.
— Translation: To the three guys who still used plastic brackets...get your act together.

Four-wheel-drive is permitted per class requirements; four-wheel-drive vehicles running quicker than 9.99 are prohibited.
— To all the DSM guys who've spent $1 million dollars each, we have no idea where this one came from.

During competition, NHRA prohibits the use of a portable computer while the vehicle is in operation. Such items as a laptop, PDA, Palm Pilot, programmer, and the like may not be installed or located in a vehicle at any point beyond the staging-area ready line. All functions or values must be preset prior to this point.
— If this rule is enforced at local NHRA Member Tracks, they can kiss ninety percent of their Grudge Night business goodbye.

Those are the highlights of the rules revisions. Let the rebuilding and buying begin.

I see "dead" DSM project cars...

 

That and Ali must be having a heart-attack. Something doesn't seem right about that 4WD rule, I'll bet it is getting clarified soon.

 

nevermind....lol

 

DSM's are awd not 4wd. I think they meant trucks etc.

 

i just read your post on SSR and came here to break the news.

 

Is this true for all the classes?

 

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are you sure? Because if they mean DSM's that is WAAAAY FUCKED UP. Not even remotely amusing to be honest. I will be shitting down someones throat if this nightmare comes true.

&lt;--don't own a dsm, but would feel that Shep, Ali, DSM, and STi owners would all cry.

on second thought they must mean 4wd trucks or else they would be committing suicide.

 

any new Turbo 4 news?

 

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I guess just the safety requirements... for now.

 

They're not talking about AWD cars. They're talking about 4X4 trucks. Remember the NHRA just allowed the AWD cars to compete in the hot rod class this year. I can't find anything in the NHRA 2006 sport compact rule book regarding prohibiting AWD cars to compete. Matter of fact they add rules in the NHRA 2006 sports compact rule book for the AWD cars in the hot rod class and they increased the weight limit for the AWD cars in the SRWD class.

http://www.nhraimport.com/APCM...id=11

 

so does that mean those safety rules are at all NHRA tracks even if it is an NDRA race. if so that sucks

 

Last time I checked, being safe didnt suck

 

wow... the changes seem to suck so far.

 

notice the computer rule says "during competion" which equals not testing, so it shouldnt effect test and tune fun and grudge nights

 

i dont see a problem with the rules....if your going over 135 you should be really close to the 9's anyways.....get a liscense and your safety stuff and call it a day.

the laptop thing is kind of weird but pretty much every engine managment system you dont need the laptop in the car to record any data anyways.

it could def. be a lot worse

 

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for the turbo 4 guys yes but I know of a good many power street cars not even close to 10's yet trapping at 130mph or so. so for my 11 second power street car(true daily drivers in the class) I am gion to need a chute and lisence? sorry that is stupid

 

chute is 150 mph+ not 9's.

the 9 second test is more of a 135 test anyways...you just have to trap over 135...not go 9's.

the rules are based on mph for everything else on the 9 second stuff....might as well just be a 135 mph liscense....well i guess thats what they are making it now. the liscense stuff isnt nearly as bad as you guys are making it out to be

 

If I understand it right there are no NDRA races at tracks owned by the NHRA. SO you would not have to worry about that rule affecting you there.

 

owned no sanctioned yes I believe there are

 

Atco,NJ is a nhra track and they are tough with nhra rules.

 

it isn't tough but I work all weekend every weekend. I am lucky to go to 4 events next year unless I find a new job which makes it real hard for me to make my liscense passes

 

the hell if i'm going to take my street car with a 6pt cage and convert it to a 10pt cage with a window net. Just isn't going to happen. I have everything else pretty much there, but i can't justify having to cut up my dash and kill my air vents to add 4 more points to the chassis.

 

As it has been said before, the speed on impact is going to hurt someone, not the et on impact. This has been a rule for a while now, just seems like now it is going to be enforced. The Snell helmet rule has always been in place too. Be thankful that you got an extra 5 years out of your helmet this time.

 

I have a SNELL M95. Is it still legal?

Phil

 

135 isn't that out of range for alot of people with just real street cars.

I cans see the threads now, "Post your chute on the street pics!!!!11"