I have searched and could not find set rules on certain drag classes. I would like to run in a class along the lines of the Street Fighter from WCF. From what I can see almost every event has a different name for this class.

I can understand all the requirements, except interior. I plan on using a stock integra (have one laying around) dash, carpet, driver's seat, custom aluminum door panels (covered in some material). Will this work? I will post a few interior pictures of the car. Is there anything else that needs to be changed that I am missing above?

 

I beleive it is supposed to have stock interior from the back of the front seats forward excluding seats. So door panels and stock dash is what I can remember

 

The rear hatch/trunk floor has been cut out and replaced in the above pictures. Not certain but I'm thinking that would break rules also.

 

That car is gutted. It's not going to fit in most street classes.

 

welcome to the Hot Rod class

 

i understand what it is now, but what we are looking to do is go back to a stockish interior... most rules state that it must have interior from the back of the front seats forward, ie dash, door panels, seats, but makes no specifications on types of those parts except a stock dash, no rules specify types of seats or door panels... we are trying to put it back within the "rules"... doesnt say you must have functioning windows so who would know if they are covered... the fuel cell is over the 5 gallons+ requirement...

 

In street fighter, that won't fly. In Ifo, they will put you in FIP

 

Interior: Stock dashboard and full interior from front seats forward is required (passenger seat may be removed). Aftermarket seats, gauges, and interior are permitted.

If I put front half interior and meet the weight requirement I should be okay right? The aluminum door panels can fall under aftermarket interior.

I copied the above from the rules posted here: http://www.importvsdomestic.com/rule...ter_import.pdf

I see in IFO rules, I would be running in FIP, as ahobbs states, because it says: "No cutting allowed for weight reduction."

 

just tell them you didnt cut it for weight reduction, tell them those are enhanced crumple zones for drag racing...

 

I think the car is difficult to qualify for the streets. Also the reason of enhanced crumple zones isn't going to save, I say go for a forward cut and make the interior look wide enough. Just a hunch, may be you can get lucky and it can work. truck for auction

 

with that floor cut... get rid of it all now and start over with a new shell.

 

Welcome to my dilemma....I started building a car back in 2004 that was going to be a hot rod class car.....spent all my money on building a nice chassis with sheet metal rear floor, lexan windows, sheet metal dash and doors, then the hot rod class basically went belly up.

Now I'm stuck with a car that doesn't fit in the rules of any "street" class and I don't have the budget to run with the other cars that are in hot rod now...hindsight I would've have never built a hot rod style car but I don't have the $$ to change now.

The thing that irks me with the "street" classes of today is they aren't street cars. So what they have a "stock" dash...that should read I have all the outer "skin" of the dash there but everything underneath has been gutted. None of the 900-1000hp cars in super street or street fighter are street cars, lets stop fooling ourselves here. I wish for the sake of filling a competitive field, just set a min weight, max turbo and max tire and say run what ya brung, and add a weight penalty for air/water. I guarantee more cars would come out of the woodwork and you'd see a 32 car field.

I know world cup has a good turnout and fills the class...but look at iRev from the 9/17 event. None of the "street" classes had a full field. Street Fighter had 2 cars, Super Street had 14 and True Street had 15. Find a way to allow more cars into these classes via weight penalties etc. Just because I have lexan windows and cut up some sheet metal shouldn't matter if I elect to purposely add weight back into the car to meet weight...just my .02

 

i read this a few times and i just dont understand what you mean... obviously i was joking about crumple zones, because the car is cut...

 

and lucas, i agree with you... weight is weight... hp is dependant upon turbo size... just look at the X275 class... its pretty much run what you brung as long as its stock suspension on an uncut chassis with a 275 drag radial... those guys are running in the 4's in the 1/8 mile on a freaking DR... its always plenty of those guys in that field...

 

I have an EF shell with a one piece front end, lexan window, and gutted interior and the "pro" all motor class on the west coast is M.I.A!!!! Now I have an EG race car with aluminum floor, fiberglass, and basically back in the same boat. I just try to fit in where I can. This past year and next year will be all about seat time and improving each time out, regardless of what class they stick me in. I try to do as many test and tunes as possible and V8 events, and IFOs.

 

I cut a small section of the floorpan where the spare tire normally goes so that the fuel cell would fit. We covered the fuel cell in aluminum as the pictures show to seperate the fuel cell from the interior of the car.

 

whats the point of cutting the door and leaving the bar in it?