Butch kemp

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Not sure on who all knows him on this board but

lastnight at Milan drag strip he went 8.11@164 N/A
small block sb2 wow that thing is flying

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I like and respect Kemp for what he has done and love that old nova he had before he crashed it, but I still don't get how his currant car(assuming this is the fox mustang) is legal for a pro stock class.
Maybe someone can explain the rules to me better.
In other sanctioning bodies I thought a pro stock class must use an engine that is of the same manufacture as the car. I mean everything is all aftermarket anyways but a ford would have a ford design engine, GM would be GM etc.
I remember getting that drilled into me from the mopar faithful during the Wayne county dodge team scandal in NHRA. They claimed a brake in at the shop where their engines were destroyed was the reason they were out the rest of the season. My argument was why didn't they buy, lease, or borrow a couple of engines to finish the season. They were 1 and 2 in the points and well on their way to finish the season that way so they would not need to win all the races to maintain the lead. Just qualify and a round here and there would have done it.
The mopar faithful said no one else had or was building a dodge engine. Everything was GM at the time. I didn't think it mattered but apparently it did.

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I believe your right that's why you dont see PRO STOCK racer from NMCA,OSCA. ETC running in IHRA.NHRA no cross breeding allowed
 

[Budnicks]

I like and respect Kemp for what he has done and love that old nova he had before he crashed it, but I still don't get how his currant car(assuming this is the fox mustang) is legal for a pro stock class.
Maybe someone can explain the rules to me better.
In other sanctioning bodies I thought a pro stock class must use an engine that is of the same manufacture as the car. I mean everything is all aftermarket anyways but a ford would have a ford design engine, GM would be GM etc.
I remember getting that drilled into me from the mopar faithful during the Wayne county dodge team scandal in NHRA. They claimed a brake in at the shop where their engines were destroyed was the reason they were out the rest of the season. My argument was why didn't they buy, lease, or borrow a couple of engines to finish the season. They were 1 and 2 in the points and well on their way to finish the season that way so they would not need to win all the races to maintain the lead. Just qualify and a round here and there would have done it.
The mopar faithful said no one else had or was building a dodge engine. Everything was GM at the time. I didn't think it mattered but apparently it did.

The Wayne County boys were using Mopar B-1 wedge headed, JP1 blocked engines there are no Chevy components in them except connecting rods, big end 2" diameter dimensions possibly & every thing was after market back then, very little Mopar parts like now. You can almost build a Pro Stock engine out of a MP catolog. In NHRA you need to be with in 2 years of current make & model & use the same make of engine 500ci max. as the body style used. Heck the Summit Pontiac's are using all aftermarket BBC bottom end & corporate style Pontiac heads that are not Pontiac at all except in name only, just like the OLd's & Buick heads of the past same thing, all of them were based on BBC crankshaft & on BBC bore spacings & canted valve BBC design. Now they have specific block & heads for the 4.5" bore blocks with basically all different dimensions then the original BBC deep block skirts, crank, blocks, intakes & heads.   Budnicks