Post by critter on Feb 16, 2016 13:51:13 GMT
1. Any car or station wagon, Imperials and 03 and new ford are allowed.
2.Cars must be stock, just like it left the factory unless the modifications are stated in rules.
Cars must have functioning brakes at all times, at least on one axle.
Helmet, seat belt, and eye protection must be worn at all times.
3. Any controversies or protests must be brought up during the drivers meeting.
4. Any questions call first If it doesn’t say you can don’t do it.
No painting of the frames. All glass, plastic, and interior must be removed before arriving to the event.
6 WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RE-INSPECT, CUT, OR DRILL ANY CAR AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT BREAKING THE RULES SET HERE FORTH YOU WILL FORFIET ANY AND ALL WINNINGS AND OR PRIZES YOU HAVE WON. JUDGES DECISION’S ARE FINAL.
IF YOU STRETCH A RULE YOU WILL LOSE THAT RULE.
Trunk
Two 8" X 8" inspection holes must be put in all deck lids one on each side of trunk lid within 2" of trunk seam in center of trunk.
You may weld or 9wire trunk lids and tailgates, one or the other not both.
9WIRE If you 9wire you may have 8 spots (double loop)of #9 wire, it may go around bumper or frame, washers may be welded on sheet metal only.
WELD: Strapping used for welding trunk may be ¼” x 3" flat stock maximum.
Trunks can be welded solid!
You may have two 1" max thick pieces of all thread from the floor pan to the deck lid, They may Welded to frame but no more than ½ ( HALF ) way down the side of frame. They must be straight up and down And must extend through deck lid, the washer on these can be 3in by ¼ thick max. On wagons these may go from the floor pan (frame) to rear roof pillars not the roof.
Trunks may not be smashed flat, If cars are tucked the rear quarter panels on both sides of cars must be 6" higher than the top of the bumper If speaker deck is removed the trunk lid can be welded to package tray. It must be at least 2 inches from rear fire wall ( behind body bolts on new style fords).
HOOD
Hood must be open for inspection, 12" x 12" hole over carburetor is mandatory.
You may 9wire or bolt the hood down, you may mix and match but only have a total of 6 spots only.
9WIRE you may have 6 spots of 9wire (double looped max) to hold hood down, you may weld washers to the hood and fenders. Washers can not be any bigger that 3in x¼
BOLTS You may have a total of 6 bolts in the hood to keep it secure, bolts may be 1" max. The front 2 may go all the way through core support, to the frame.
Core Support
You may use a 2” x 2” spacer. It can go from bottom of frame up to core support, up the side of the frame. It can be welded to the side of the frame.
FRONT MOUNTS
You may use a 4" x 4" x ¼ plate to weld to top side of frame on the front two body mounts these can be welded no farther back than 2" on the frame.
Body Mounts
All body mounts must be in stock (factory) location. All body mounts may be changed 1“ max, You may Weld (3”x¼ max) washers over the body mounts holes on the top side of the frame only. Washers on inside may not be welded. Cars that didn’t come factory with body mounts in the rear package tray may add them in factory hole. No other added body mounts will be permitted.
Body
Doors may be welded solid with 4”x¼ max straps.
On pre-ran cars the doors may be repaired back to stock. Rust repair on body is ok, must use same thickness material. No more than a 1” over lap, get crazy get to cutting. Leave rust behind patch if no rust can be seen you will cut off the whole patch.
You may pinch the front fenders, doors and rear quarters, front to back no added metal.
Body panels will be drilled front and back, No double skinning.
Each wheel well may have no more than 6 bolts each, wheel wells may be trimmed, rolled and welded back together single pass only.
Drivers Door may be plated with steel for drivers protection. Door plate may not be any wider than door strapping that is used to weld door shut.
9 wire inside cab
you may have unlimited 9 wire inside the cab, May go from frame to cage or body. Must stay inside cab nothing passed Front or Rear fire wall.
FOUR POINT CAGE
A cage must be installed, nothing bigger than 4x4, This is all the cage you may run, NO belly bars down the middle of the car, The cage can be inside of doors, you may weld gussets on every corner but must be from cage to cage (not cage to body or frame) just to add strength to the joints. The cage can only be welded to the frame in the four designated areas started below nothing else. .
DASH BAR (only one) and it must be at least 6 inches from your Distributor Protector, You may only have two down legs off the dash bar and they mush be straight up and down and can only be welded to the tope of the frame rail. (behind the crush box or S curve) Can NOT be welded to fire wall at all.
2 DOOR BARS one for each side only, these bar must be at least 6 inches off the floor and may not go past the front dash bar or rear halo bar. You may weld the door bars to the door and door post. The door bar may not have any down legs at all. You can add a second drivers door bar for drivers protection. It still has to follow existing cage rules.
HALO’S are mandatory and can not be any farther back than where the kick panel meets the bench seat. Down legs may be 50/50 one this point. Halo must be straight up and down not pitched forwards or backwards and can only be welded to the top side of the frame.
BACK BAR may be weld to the door bars or down legs of halo which ever works for you. Can not be wider then the door bars or halo down legs, can not have any down legs weld to back bar. You must weld your GAS TANK PROTECTOR off of the back bar.
GAS TANK PROTECTOR the gas tank protector may only be 36 inches wide.
(out side to outside) The gas tank protector may be butted up to rear fire wall but can not be welded or bolt to frame or fire wall in any way.
KICKERS: You may have two 3x3 (max size) Kickers in the front one the car only. The Kickers can only run to the back of the A-arm. (side closest to fire wall) No gussets off the kickers to the frame.
WINDOW BARS
You may run ONE REAR (2x2 max) window bar, It can be welded to the halo and must be welded to the seam were the front of the truck lid meets the speaker tray, if you remover the speaker tray and slide the truck lid forward or backwards you must still put the window bar in the same location and can only be welded to trunk lid not floor, If you look from the side of the car across the trunk it must be within 4 inches of rear window pillars. If you don’t run a trunk lid you may not have a window bar. DO NOT run to middle of trunk or back bumper or you will cut it out!
You may run ONE FRONT (2x2 max) window bar, It may be welded to the halo, If you weld to the halo you can only run it to the DASH BAR on the top side or behind (must be at least 6 inches from Distributor Protector), not in-between the dash bar and fire wall. If welded to halo it may not be welded to fire wall at all. If you weld the window bar to roof only you may weld to top of the fire wall (behind Distributor Protector) or dash bar your choice.
Bumpers
Run any bumper you wish (front and back), you may stuff bumpers, Home Bumper are legal.
Home made pointy bumpers are allowed but cant no have more than a 14inch point on them and the point must be at least 28” wide. This will be measured for the mounting pads/frame. BRING A CAN OPENER/ HOLE PUNCHER AND YOU WILL CUT THE POINT OFF
BUMPER SHOCKS May be home made (on front only) no bigger or longer then 2x2x12” may be welded the whole 12 inches. You can cut factory frame seam open and weld the shock no creating extra seams on top or bottom of frame.
Bumper heights are 24” high 14”low from bottom of bumper.
Frame
Trailer hitches and braces must be removed. No plating, pinning, heat treating, stuffing the frame of any kind. Do not paint frame.
NO WELDS ON FRAME MAY EXCEED A SINGLE PASS NO WEAVE PASSES OR BUILDING THE WELD UP WILL BE PERMITIED.
NO FRAME CREASING or hammering PERMITTED. You can notch or crease rear frame, to help the rear of car roll not to strengthen the frame. Welding is limited to front and rear bumper areas Frame seams from firewall forward may be welded top side only.
If a frame section needs to be replaced or repaired do to rust you may patch the rust with the same thickness of flat plate. Do not cut rust out, If no rust is behind plate you will cut the whole plate off. (NO MORE THEN 4 RUST REPAIRS ON FRAME) If the frame has damage in the rear, the back 2 body bolts may be moved no more than 6" from factory location.
On pre-ran cars if the frame is shortened in the rear and bumper replaced the bumper shocks may not be located closer than 6" from hump plate.
PATCHES
All fresh cars may have (2) 3/8” x 4”x4” patch any where of their choice…
You may have a total of (6) - 3/8" x 4" x 4" patches on pre-ran cars that have frame damage there must be a 1" gap between patches, Patches may only be on a flat surface No bending over the corners of the frame. If a seam has came apart you may re-weld up to 6" ( no patches bigger than3/8 “ x 4" x 4" allowed ) Angle iron for the cross member can't be longer than 5" and must be within 12" from factory location.
HUMP PLATES
For coil sprung cars you may use a hump plate they may be 22” long ¼ thick and follow the contour of the frame, must be centered in the hump.
On new model GM's (1980+ metrics) you may use a 30" long ¼ thick hump plate the same way.
On leaf spring cars you may use a ¼" X 11" hump plate the same way. These hump plates may contour the frame or run straight across hump. Hump plate must remain flat plate no bending of this over the top or bottom of frame.
You may clip pre-ran cars with a single butt weld with no metal added must use same make and model of frame IE: ford to ford gm to gm No hybrid frames permitted on fords you can not clip a 02 and older with an 03 and newer no exceptions or vice versa.
You may cut factory seams at the box and re-weld to tilt the front of new style fords no metal may be added. All factory holes in frame must remain open no welding these holes shut.
On 03 and newer fords you may use an 80 and newer ford or GM car steel cradles they must be put in like there factory counterparts only using the factory brackets no other metal may be added. They must be in factory location and can not be moved forward. You may use a 3" spacer from the bottom of the frame to lower A-arm where the spring goes you may not alter frame in any manner other than attaching factory brackets with a single bead of weld. You can not add any type of spring pockets to frame. All factory holes in front of A arms must be open. Nothing may be welded on top of frame over the holes in front of frame. On 03 and newer fords you can not shorten the front of the frames. A ARMS must be 7 ½” behind the rear factory holes in frame in the front TO THE FRONT EDGE OF A ARMS (THE FACTORY CRUSH POINT ) A ARMS must be from a passenger car no truck or van A ARMS will be permitted.
Drive Train
Engines may be chained in with 4 chains standard 3/8" chain max. these chains may be no longer than 16" and no more than 2 chain links may be welded to the engine cradle behind Motor Mount2 chains permitted to frame In front of A-Arms (1 per side) 2 Chain links welded to frame Welds for this may not exceed a continuous 3” weld. . Chains must attach to engine and no separating the links of chain. Motor of choice is permitted. Distributor protectors are allowed, Nothing that attaches to engine can be wider than the stacks I.E dist. Protector, engine cradles ect or be used to strengthen cars.
A transmission brace may be used, may attach to bell housing or distributor protector and the tail shaft. They must be on the top of trans and not strengthen the car in any way nothing allowed below the bottom bell housing bolt or the side bottom bolt on tail shaft this can not extend past transmission mount. You may use a skid plate, this may attach to the trans pan and oil pan nothing may extend past the rear of oil pan or forward of the sump area of the oil pan and must be flat plate only. If you use a homemade bell housing as in a steel or aluminum bell braces are STILL allowed. Oil pan and transmission pan may be plated the plate used may be only 1” wider than the pan they are welded to. If you use a transmission brace / protector you may weld to cross member. .
Suspension
You may modify tie rods. A-arms must remain in stock configuration. Rear trailing arms may be Home made No bigger than 2 x 2 square tubing or pipe.
Upper A arms may be welded down completely with ¼" strapping. Lower A-Arms may not be welded. You can change out the new style A-arms For old style ones. Cars do not have to bounce. Solid suspension is allowed.
Coil springs in rear may be welded wired or chained to rear end. No coil to leaf conversions allowed.
You may use rear end of choice, (8 lug is allowed) Rear end protectors may be used but may not be used to strengthen car in any way and must be on back of rear end.
leaf spring cars may replace broken springs with factory ¼ " leaf springs only. No more than 7 springs allowed and must have a 2" stagger and mounted in factory location, Shackles and hangers may be welded doesn’t have to bounce. Can be flat leafed, welded together, clamped as many times as you want. Must still meet bumper height restrictions.
Idler arm must be bolted factory to frame no bolts will be permitted all the way through the frame. (Factory passenger car) Sway bar may be welded to bottom of frame in the factory location you may use a 1 ½ " X 4” bracket or a 2" square tubing or pipe to weld to sway bar to attach to frame.
Upper and lower A Arms must be factory passenger car type no homemade ones will be permitted.
Tires
Any rubber tire permitted, Doubling of tires permitted. Bead locks are permitted no bigger than 21” across. Valve stem protectors are permitted.
2.Cars must be stock, just like it left the factory unless the modifications are stated in rules.
Cars must have functioning brakes at all times, at least on one axle.
Helmet, seat belt, and eye protection must be worn at all times.
3. Any controversies or protests must be brought up during the drivers meeting.
4. Any questions call first If it doesn’t say you can don’t do it.
No painting of the frames. All glass, plastic, and interior must be removed before arriving to the event.
6 WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO RE-INSPECT, CUT, OR DRILL ANY CAR AT ANY TIME. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT BREAKING THE RULES SET HERE FORTH YOU WILL FORFIET ANY AND ALL WINNINGS AND OR PRIZES YOU HAVE WON. JUDGES DECISION’S ARE FINAL.
IF YOU STRETCH A RULE YOU WILL LOSE THAT RULE.
Trunk
Two 8" X 8" inspection holes must be put in all deck lids one on each side of trunk lid within 2" of trunk seam in center of trunk.
You may weld or 9wire trunk lids and tailgates, one or the other not both.
9WIRE If you 9wire you may have 8 spots (double loop)of #9 wire, it may go around bumper or frame, washers may be welded on sheet metal only.
WELD: Strapping used for welding trunk may be ¼” x 3" flat stock maximum.
Trunks can be welded solid!
You may have two 1" max thick pieces of all thread from the floor pan to the deck lid, They may Welded to frame but no more than ½ ( HALF ) way down the side of frame. They must be straight up and down And must extend through deck lid, the washer on these can be 3in by ¼ thick max. On wagons these may go from the floor pan (frame) to rear roof pillars not the roof.
Trunks may not be smashed flat, If cars are tucked the rear quarter panels on both sides of cars must be 6" higher than the top of the bumper If speaker deck is removed the trunk lid can be welded to package tray. It must be at least 2 inches from rear fire wall ( behind body bolts on new style fords).
HOOD
Hood must be open for inspection, 12" x 12" hole over carburetor is mandatory.
You may 9wire or bolt the hood down, you may mix and match but only have a total of 6 spots only.
9WIRE you may have 6 spots of 9wire (double looped max) to hold hood down, you may weld washers to the hood and fenders. Washers can not be any bigger that 3in x¼
BOLTS You may have a total of 6 bolts in the hood to keep it secure, bolts may be 1" max. The front 2 may go all the way through core support, to the frame.
Core Support
You may use a 2” x 2” spacer. It can go from bottom of frame up to core support, up the side of the frame. It can be welded to the side of the frame.
FRONT MOUNTS
You may use a 4" x 4" x ¼ plate to weld to top side of frame on the front two body mounts these can be welded no farther back than 2" on the frame.
Body Mounts
All body mounts must be in stock (factory) location. All body mounts may be changed 1“ max, You may Weld (3”x¼ max) washers over the body mounts holes on the top side of the frame only. Washers on inside may not be welded. Cars that didn’t come factory with body mounts in the rear package tray may add them in factory hole. No other added body mounts will be permitted.
Body
Doors may be welded solid with 4”x¼ max straps.
On pre-ran cars the doors may be repaired back to stock. Rust repair on body is ok, must use same thickness material. No more than a 1” over lap, get crazy get to cutting. Leave rust behind patch if no rust can be seen you will cut off the whole patch.
You may pinch the front fenders, doors and rear quarters, front to back no added metal.
Body panels will be drilled front and back, No double skinning.
Each wheel well may have no more than 6 bolts each, wheel wells may be trimmed, rolled and welded back together single pass only.
Drivers Door may be plated with steel for drivers protection. Door plate may not be any wider than door strapping that is used to weld door shut.
9 wire inside cab
you may have unlimited 9 wire inside the cab, May go from frame to cage or body. Must stay inside cab nothing passed Front or Rear fire wall.
FOUR POINT CAGE
A cage must be installed, nothing bigger than 4x4, This is all the cage you may run, NO belly bars down the middle of the car, The cage can be inside of doors, you may weld gussets on every corner but must be from cage to cage (not cage to body or frame) just to add strength to the joints. The cage can only be welded to the frame in the four designated areas started below nothing else. .
DASH BAR (only one) and it must be at least 6 inches from your Distributor Protector, You may only have two down legs off the dash bar and they mush be straight up and down and can only be welded to the tope of the frame rail. (behind the crush box or S curve) Can NOT be welded to fire wall at all.
2 DOOR BARS one for each side only, these bar must be at least 6 inches off the floor and may not go past the front dash bar or rear halo bar. You may weld the door bars to the door and door post. The door bar may not have any down legs at all. You can add a second drivers door bar for drivers protection. It still has to follow existing cage rules.
HALO’S are mandatory and can not be any farther back than where the kick panel meets the bench seat. Down legs may be 50/50 one this point. Halo must be straight up and down not pitched forwards or backwards and can only be welded to the top side of the frame.
BACK BAR may be weld to the door bars or down legs of halo which ever works for you. Can not be wider then the door bars or halo down legs, can not have any down legs weld to back bar. You must weld your GAS TANK PROTECTOR off of the back bar.
GAS TANK PROTECTOR the gas tank protector may only be 36 inches wide.
(out side to outside) The gas tank protector may be butted up to rear fire wall but can not be welded or bolt to frame or fire wall in any way.
KICKERS: You may have two 3x3 (max size) Kickers in the front one the car only. The Kickers can only run to the back of the A-arm. (side closest to fire wall) No gussets off the kickers to the frame.
WINDOW BARS
You may run ONE REAR (2x2 max) window bar, It can be welded to the halo and must be welded to the seam were the front of the truck lid meets the speaker tray, if you remover the speaker tray and slide the truck lid forward or backwards you must still put the window bar in the same location and can only be welded to trunk lid not floor, If you look from the side of the car across the trunk it must be within 4 inches of rear window pillars. If you don’t run a trunk lid you may not have a window bar. DO NOT run to middle of trunk or back bumper or you will cut it out!
You may run ONE FRONT (2x2 max) window bar, It may be welded to the halo, If you weld to the halo you can only run it to the DASH BAR on the top side or behind (must be at least 6 inches from Distributor Protector), not in-between the dash bar and fire wall. If welded to halo it may not be welded to fire wall at all. If you weld the window bar to roof only you may weld to top of the fire wall (behind Distributor Protector) or dash bar your choice.
Bumpers
Run any bumper you wish (front and back), you may stuff bumpers, Home Bumper are legal.
Home made pointy bumpers are allowed but cant no have more than a 14inch point on them and the point must be at least 28” wide. This will be measured for the mounting pads/frame. BRING A CAN OPENER/ HOLE PUNCHER AND YOU WILL CUT THE POINT OFF
BUMPER SHOCKS May be home made (on front only) no bigger or longer then 2x2x12” may be welded the whole 12 inches. You can cut factory frame seam open and weld the shock no creating extra seams on top or bottom of frame.
Bumper heights are 24” high 14”low from bottom of bumper.
Frame
Trailer hitches and braces must be removed. No plating, pinning, heat treating, stuffing the frame of any kind. Do not paint frame.
NO WELDS ON FRAME MAY EXCEED A SINGLE PASS NO WEAVE PASSES OR BUILDING THE WELD UP WILL BE PERMITIED.
NO FRAME CREASING or hammering PERMITTED. You can notch or crease rear frame, to help the rear of car roll not to strengthen the frame. Welding is limited to front and rear bumper areas Frame seams from firewall forward may be welded top side only.
If a frame section needs to be replaced or repaired do to rust you may patch the rust with the same thickness of flat plate. Do not cut rust out, If no rust is behind plate you will cut the whole plate off. (NO MORE THEN 4 RUST REPAIRS ON FRAME) If the frame has damage in the rear, the back 2 body bolts may be moved no more than 6" from factory location.
On pre-ran cars if the frame is shortened in the rear and bumper replaced the bumper shocks may not be located closer than 6" from hump plate.
PATCHES
All fresh cars may have (2) 3/8” x 4”x4” patch any where of their choice…
You may have a total of (6) - 3/8" x 4" x 4" patches on pre-ran cars that have frame damage there must be a 1" gap between patches, Patches may only be on a flat surface No bending over the corners of the frame. If a seam has came apart you may re-weld up to 6" ( no patches bigger than3/8 “ x 4" x 4" allowed ) Angle iron for the cross member can't be longer than 5" and must be within 12" from factory location.
HUMP PLATES
For coil sprung cars you may use a hump plate they may be 22” long ¼ thick and follow the contour of the frame, must be centered in the hump.
On new model GM's (1980+ metrics) you may use a 30" long ¼ thick hump plate the same way.
On leaf spring cars you may use a ¼" X 11" hump plate the same way. These hump plates may contour the frame or run straight across hump. Hump plate must remain flat plate no bending of this over the top or bottom of frame.
You may clip pre-ran cars with a single butt weld with no metal added must use same make and model of frame IE: ford to ford gm to gm No hybrid frames permitted on fords you can not clip a 02 and older with an 03 and newer no exceptions or vice versa.
You may cut factory seams at the box and re-weld to tilt the front of new style fords no metal may be added. All factory holes in frame must remain open no welding these holes shut.
On 03 and newer fords you may use an 80 and newer ford or GM car steel cradles they must be put in like there factory counterparts only using the factory brackets no other metal may be added. They must be in factory location and can not be moved forward. You may use a 3" spacer from the bottom of the frame to lower A-arm where the spring goes you may not alter frame in any manner other than attaching factory brackets with a single bead of weld. You can not add any type of spring pockets to frame. All factory holes in front of A arms must be open. Nothing may be welded on top of frame over the holes in front of frame. On 03 and newer fords you can not shorten the front of the frames. A ARMS must be 7 ½” behind the rear factory holes in frame in the front TO THE FRONT EDGE OF A ARMS (THE FACTORY CRUSH POINT ) A ARMS must be from a passenger car no truck or van A ARMS will be permitted.
Drive Train
Engines may be chained in with 4 chains standard 3/8" chain max. these chains may be no longer than 16" and no more than 2 chain links may be welded to the engine cradle behind Motor Mount2 chains permitted to frame In front of A-Arms (1 per side) 2 Chain links welded to frame Welds for this may not exceed a continuous 3” weld. . Chains must attach to engine and no separating the links of chain. Motor of choice is permitted. Distributor protectors are allowed, Nothing that attaches to engine can be wider than the stacks I.E dist. Protector, engine cradles ect or be used to strengthen cars.
A transmission brace may be used, may attach to bell housing or distributor protector and the tail shaft. They must be on the top of trans and not strengthen the car in any way nothing allowed below the bottom bell housing bolt or the side bottom bolt on tail shaft this can not extend past transmission mount. You may use a skid plate, this may attach to the trans pan and oil pan nothing may extend past the rear of oil pan or forward of the sump area of the oil pan and must be flat plate only. If you use a homemade bell housing as in a steel or aluminum bell braces are STILL allowed. Oil pan and transmission pan may be plated the plate used may be only 1” wider than the pan they are welded to. If you use a transmission brace / protector you may weld to cross member. .
Suspension
You may modify tie rods. A-arms must remain in stock configuration. Rear trailing arms may be Home made No bigger than 2 x 2 square tubing or pipe.
Upper A arms may be welded down completely with ¼" strapping. Lower A-Arms may not be welded. You can change out the new style A-arms For old style ones. Cars do not have to bounce. Solid suspension is allowed.
Coil springs in rear may be welded wired or chained to rear end. No coil to leaf conversions allowed.
You may use rear end of choice, (8 lug is allowed) Rear end protectors may be used but may not be used to strengthen car in any way and must be on back of rear end.
leaf spring cars may replace broken springs with factory ¼ " leaf springs only. No more than 7 springs allowed and must have a 2" stagger and mounted in factory location, Shackles and hangers may be welded doesn’t have to bounce. Can be flat leafed, welded together, clamped as many times as you want. Must still meet bumper height restrictions.
Idler arm must be bolted factory to frame no bolts will be permitted all the way through the frame. (Factory passenger car) Sway bar may be welded to bottom of frame in the factory location you may use a 1 ½ " X 4” bracket or a 2" square tubing or pipe to weld to sway bar to attach to frame.
Upper and lower A Arms must be factory passenger car type no homemade ones will be permitted.
Tires
Any rubber tire permitted, Doubling of tires permitted. Bead locks are permitted no bigger than 21” across. Valve stem protectors are permitted.
