2008 HOBBIES
**Mufflers Required**
SF # 112535
Weight: 2900 lbs.stock clip or full frame 2700 lbs.either with driver after race.
NO MIRRORS OUTSIDE THE CAR AND All DRIVERS MUST HAVE TRACK APPOVED RADIOS.
Any driver caught will be disqualified!
BODIES
1. American cars only 1960-up with a 106" minimum wheel base. Stock OEM bodies, Sheet metal bodies or a mixture of the two are allowed. Stock or homemade hood scoops allowed max. 2 inches high. Rear fire wall may start at base of "rear" seat and slope to the bottom of the rear window opening. No station wagons. All glass must be removed and the interior may be hulled. Skirting Allowed. Hood pins must be used on the hood and on the trunk. Lexan and plexiglass windows are allowed in the back-side window only.
2. Driver's compartment may be boxed-in with sheet metal. There must be an inspection door at least 12" X 12" just inside the right side window to allow officials to inspect the roll cage.
3. A 8" high spoiler or a stock spoiler for the make of car is allowed. The spoiler can not be adjustable. Any middle supports must be the same size as the side supports. Spoilers can be no wider than the car. All measurements on the spoiler are maximum.
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ENGINES
4. Cubic inches: 350 GM, 351 Ford Windsor, 360 Chrys., with 0.060 overbore. ANY type steel I-beam or H- beam rods with 5.7 Chevy or 5.92 Ford length.Valves:2.02 intake and 1.60 exhaust. Valve springs any size. Crank must be stock stroke for engine weigh 50#. No lightening of crank except for balancing, no knife edging. Headers or stock exhaust manifold. Any flat top pistons. Any intake as long as the carburetor fits under the hood without bowing it up. 500 solid or hydraulic valve lift max. at valve( Checked with solid lift at 0 lash.) Roller rockerarms with 3/8 or 7/16stud, guide plates, poly locks,,stud girdles permitted. No twins or shaft rockers. Stock type cast iron exhaust manifold or headers are permitted with collectors and exhaust extending past the drivers' compartment and pointing out the side or back not pointing straight down. MUST HAVE TRACK APPROVED MUFFLER.
Carburetor: One four barrel only. No two barrels. Ignition: stock type, HEI or point type. No MSD types or magneto. Any Steel Head. No porting and polishing. Heads may be bowl cut but they must be concentric with the valve guide no deeper than the round edge of the valve guide boss.
5. Engine location: the number one spark plug must be in line with the center of the top ball joint.
CHASSIS
6. Any after market chassie with stock clip. Unibodies may be tied together. Chassis horns may be cut off and replaced with tubing at the front of the buckets and rear of the frame may be cut off and replaced with tubing after the bottom elbow behind the axle on stock chassis. No 4-lenk. Coilovers are ok.
7. STEERING: Quick release steering wheel O.K. No rack and pinion. Power steering ok.
8. SUSPENSION: May change spring and shock rates. coil overs ok. Tube A-frames permitted. Spring cups permitted with jacking bolts.
9. DRIVE SHAFTS: Must be painted white with the car number on it and it must be protected by a safety loop.
10. TRANSMISSIONS: 3 or 4 speed straight drive with stock clutch and fly wheel or automatic with STOCK torque converter.( 11 inch minimum) Slave cylinders allowed. Working reverse MANDATORY. No Bert or Obrbrinn.
11. REAR ENDS: Stock type 9" Ford ok., may lock, floater ok. No quick change.
12. BRAKES: Stock or after market ok, 3 or 4 wheel. Disc brakes allowed. Dual master cylinders allowed. Aftermarket paddles allowed. Brake adjusting of brakes from the inside of the driver's compartment. O.K. Swing arms ok must be clamped to rear end.
13. TIRES: RC4
14. WHEELS: Must be steel. May be 10" or 12" wide. Beadlocks allowed.
15. LUGS: Lug studs can be oversized. Lug nuts must be 1 inch hex. min.
16. ROLL CAGE: Must be made of roll bar tubing.
17. RACING SEAT: Must be fastened to cage hoop and supported from roll bar cage.
18. SEAT BELTS: 5 point belts must be secured to seat hoop support, not floor.
19. FUEL CELLS: May hang if in a steel container. Approved gas tank must be in trunk. Fuel line must be in conduit if inside car.
20. GASOLINE or RACING FUEL.
21. BATTERY: Can be relocated but must be mounted in an enclosed box that has been securely mounted to the floor pan of the car with two straps 1/8" thick, 1 1/2" wide that are across the top of the box and also secured to the floor pan with 1/2" bolts.
22. FIRE EXTINGUISHER: A 2 lb. fire extinguisher in good working order required. And easily accessible to driver.
23. Driver suits and gloves, wind shield bars and window nets are Mandatory.
24. All cars must have a chain on front and rear of car for wrecker hook up. THERE WILL BE A $20.00 OR 20 POINT FINE EVERY TIME THE WRECKER HAS TO PICK-UP A CAR WITHOUT A WRECKER HOOK UP.
25. Any attached weight must be securely bolted to the frame with two 1/2" bolts with lock washers or self locking nuts. Attached weights must be painted white and must have the car number painted on it .ANY LOST WEIGHT WILL BE CONFISCATED.
26. Any car not meeting the minimum weight in the post-race weigh-in will not be disqualified but will be fined all points and all money.
27. No driver operated weight adjustment devices. No traction control devices.
28. Numbers must be painted on both sides of the car and must be at least 18" in height (officials reserve the right to ask any driver to change his/her number due to duplications).
29. All cars must have a 6" number painted over the right head light cover and the left tail light cover.
30. The winner of three straight mains must start in the rear of the next main he/she runs at the speedway unless it is a special or double points race.
31. A driver that wins three championships in five years must move out of the division for ten years. A driver winning one championship in a higher division at Laurens may not run in this division for five years after the championship.
32. Any measurement in these rules that is to be checked with a tape-measure will be allowed a 1 inch tolerance unless the rules say min. or max.
33. Protest: $300.00 Three items may be protested. $100.00 will go to the track for expenses.
Three items from this list only: bore and stroke, heads, intake, cam, carburetor, engine placement, wheel base, weight transfer devices, traction control devices, fuel and ignition.
Bottom End Protest: $400.00. Any additional items must come under another protest. $100.00 will go to the track for expenses. One piston and one rod must be picked and removed from the engine. Crank must be removed for weighing and inspected.
Clutch Protest: $250.00 Only clutch assembly including flywheel may be protested. $100.00 will go to the track for expenses.
34. A driver that has been protested has the option to protest the driver that protested him. The second protest may be on any items listed in rule # 34 not just on the same three from the first protest (THE ONLY EXCEPTION IS BOTTOM END PROTEST; IF THE FIRST PROTEST IS NOT ON BOTTOM END THEN THE SECOND CAN NOT BE EITHER). The initial protest must be made within five minutes after the leader takes the checkered flag. Any protesting back must be made within five minutes after the initial protest has been made.
35. All protests must come within five minutes after the checkered flag has been given to the winner. Protests must be made by the driver. If protesting driver leaves the track the car being checked will be declared legal. Any driver that takes the checkered flag may protest any car that finishes anywhere ahead of him. The protest will not be official until the money is in the flagman's hand. The driver making the protest and one mechanic are the only people from that crew allowed in the impound area. (No substitutions).
The driver and up to two mechanics are allowed from the car that is being protested. The crew must have the car ready for inspection within 90 minutes of the protest being filed.
36. Anything not covered or not mentioned in the previous rules has to be ruled on when brought up.
TRACK OFFICIALS DECISION WILL BE FINAL.