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Stock Eliminator cars are not cut up on mini tubbed. Talked to one of my racing buddies back east who knows a little about the FAST cars. Many are guarded about letting anyone see the engine bay.....period. Hoods are closed most of the time too. What's to hide?

Not like this at INDY in the tear down barn.

Bob

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Some cars are gutted- some are not. Ed Cook's black A12(six pack wedge) RR weighs in at 3920 with the driver. Big Ed weighs about 335#. He took some weight out of it, but because it's a real factory black A12 liftoff hood car and is worth a small fortune, he has no plans on gutting the car out to the moon as some of the other competitors have. Same holds true for his kid's red car- which weighs around the same and has run a best of 11.12 @ 126.80- with a 4 speed.

As for accountability. I can only say this. Dave Dudek(who's Hemi RR is the FASTest in the class andhas won more of these events than anyone), tore his engine down for the world to see at the Nats and his engine teardown has been featured in several magazines. I have personally built several cars that run in this class-including Ed's RR, and none of the guys that I did work for that run these cars would have any issue with people poking around their stuff.

Ed's car has been pretty heavily teched. It has run a best of 10.94 @ 127.60 on G60-15 redlines.

MB