All Sportsman cars are required to run mufflers for the Raceway Park Englishtown, NJ. event

Pro drivers meeting will be at 12pm on Saturday.
Sportsman Drivers meeting will be at 1pm on Saturday.
All Sportsman cars will qualify on Saturday at 2pm, 4pm, and 6pm.
All Pro cars will qualify on Saturday at 5pm, 7pm and at 11am Sunday morning.

Tech will be open on Friday from 12pm till 5pm.
Tech will open at 8am on Saturday.
Tech will not be open during qualification times due to fuel and weight checks.

Reserved Pit parking is available on Friday from 9am to 6pm. If you arrive after that, you will be charged for the NOPI event and whatever event Etown has going on Friday night.

Over 80 pit spaces will be marked for racers/teams. Please be respectful of other racers and park in your reserved pit space if you have requested one, or a blank pit space if you did not reserve a pit space.

Thank you everyone and we look forward to great weekend. Please be careful on your trip to Etown....

 

Why mufflers for the sportsman guys? lets hope this event goes a little smoother than atco.

 

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..does this mean it has to exit the rear bumper?? or just need a muffler?

 

Now by Sportsmen do you mean BRACKET cars or all of the sportsmen classes such as Quick 16, power street, turbo street and so on? All of the previous years saturday was required mufflers for BRACKET cars only but sportsmen guys like Q16 were allowed open exhaust but only to QUALIFY on Saturday. Then Sunday everyone including braket cars were allowed to run open exhaust.

Just trying to clarify here when you say sportsmen. So if I show up to qun Q16 on saturday and qualify, I must run a muffler to QUALIFY saturday afternoon? Or am I exempt like previous years??

 

i think it has something to do with e town's rules, i believe all cars need full exhausts

 

E-town has a curfew.

They are only allowed a certain number of "noise days" ( thats what they call them) basically those are the days they can make as much noise as they want - i'm sure they use them for NHRA powerade events.

Any other time cars are usually required to have mufflers

 

Hopefully Etown has less oil downs this year

 

I am aware of E-towns rules and curfews. However, like I said in previous years any class that was QUALIFING was allowed to run open exhausts (unless the rules stated mufflers for the class) on saturday while just bracket cars had to wear mufflers. NOPI comes on here saying all sportsmen cars, so I was looking for a clarification on wether Q16 had to be muffled this year where we got away with it in years past. Thats all really

Now if you tell me I have to use a muffler in Q16 Saturday, no problem as we have one that bolts right up.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by OldskoolVW &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">I am aware of E-towns rules and curfews. However, like I said in previous years any class that was QUALIFING was allowed to run open exhausts (unless the rules stated mufflers for the class) on saturday while just bracket cars had to wear mufflers. NOPI comes on here saying all sportsmen cars, so I was looking for a clarification on wether Q16 had to be muffled this year where we got away with it in years past. Thats all really

Now if you tell me I have to use a muffler in Q16 Saturday, no problem as we have one that bolts right up.</TD></TR></TABLE>

My response was not directed at you. As i can see you are a local guy , i would assume you were fully aware of them. I was trying to explain it to some of the other guys that may not understand why they are required there.

I can not give you an answer to your question, which is why i did not speak directly towards you. . .

 

for those concerned, you may want to call Etown. Last time i called, they considered a turbo a muffler.

 

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ive heard that a before, then as soon as you get there it doesent fly....i would be proactive guys and get a muffler that exits behind the rear control arm as it states in this years rulebook when required by track

 

i cant find anywhere in the rule book where it states it must be behind the rear control arm.

 

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i stand corrected, looks like the general rules 1.3 doesent state that it has to exit past the rear control arm anymore, just has to flow through a functioning muffler exiting toward the back of the cars body...nor does it say anything regarding Turbostreet cars....

Glenn can you chime in on this?

 

Looks like Glenn just put in his 2 weeks

 

2Fast.....no worries over here man. It's all good.

Just looking for some clarification. I will call my girl Jeanne tomorrow in the office and try to get an answer. Although I can hear it already...."well it is going to be up to NOPI. We have no say"

Just wish NOPI was a little more clear

 

Looks like rain

 

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what else s new for nopi races this year?...rain blows...Hey Glenn are they running the finals for FL. 1st or 2nd round of qulifying?

 

PER GLENN WOODS!! HE ASKED ME TO GET ON HERE AND CLARIFLY THE EXHAUST SITUATION!!

THE ONLY CARS THAT NEED MUFFLERS ARE ALL MOTOR AND NITROUS CARS!!

 

4:30 and still trucking along here. Going straight from the house to the dyno. Thank god for all that Rockstar

 

finally just started up the car. couple more hours worth of work, then we'll be on the road.

 

Glad I'm not the only one doing some last minute stuff. Just put a motor in my car last night and on the way to the dyno in a bit.

 

In our typical fashion... we are pulling the trans AGAIN the day before a race!
This is getting old. realllll old. Were planning on a test and tune tonight at Etown. Thats wont happen now.

 

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that is correct.. as far as i know, the turbo counts as a muffler.. all motor cars are a different story

 

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This is getting old. realllll old. Were planning on a test and tune tonight at Etown. Thats wont happen now. </TD></TR></TABLE>

why again??? how the cuff working out

 

Make sure to check for debris on the track!