Modular True Street

Sponsored by Tremec Transmissions 

PAYOUTS 

Overall Winner  $1,300

8 second  $700

9 second  $500

10 second  $450

11second  $400

12 second  $350

13 second  $300

14 second  $275

15 second  $250

Tech
Card: $125

 

Class Description:

Modular True Street is a racing class for street cars that you would see on the road every day. They can be highly modified or bone stock. This class is for all vehicles with a late-model modular based V8 overhead-cam engine. All modifications permitted. The vehicle must be registered, licenses, and insured. There awards for the winner of each category, but also for the following: closest average ET that is not quicker than the following – Overall Winner, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00, 11.00, 12.00, 13.00, 14.00, and 15.00. Each class winner will fall within its respective ET category. For example, the 12 second winner average must be between 12.00 to 12.99.

TRUE STREET Directions\Route

  1. Leave Bradenton Motorsports Park – Go West on FL-64
  2. Drive 5.1 miles
  3. Enter Traffic Circle, Take first exit right and head north on Rye Rd E 
  4. Drive 6.4 miles
  5. Turn right on Rutland Rd headed southeast towards FL-64
  6. Drive 7.2 miles
  7. Turn right on FL-64
  8. Drive 4.4 miles
  9. End Bradenton
  10. Total 23.1 miles

Qualifying Information, Ladder Type, & Tree

All run, 3-back to back runs, 500 Pro tree, Heads-Up, 1/4 mile, courtesy stage.

Appearance

All cars in competition must be painted or wrapped.

Class Rules

Any vehicle with a late-model modular based V8 overhead-cam engine.

Body Rules:

OEM steel (fiberglass/composite if OEM equipped) body shell required. Aftermarket body kits are ok. Only permitted lightweight components are hood, front valance, front and rear bumpers, and rear trunk lid/hatch. Hood is required, may be made of lightweight material. Hood scoops are ok. Any rear wing is ok. OEM safety glass windows required and must be in working condition. Lexan/Optiarmor permited.

Power Adders & Powertrain

Any late-model modular based V8 overhead-cam engine permitted and any power adders are permitted. Any manual or automatic transmission is permitted. Any rear end is permitted.

Exhaust System

Fender exit exhaust is permitted.

Chassis/Frame

Stock-type chassis is ok. Stock firewall and stock front frame rails must be in stock location and unmodified. Starting at the firewall rearward, floor and chassis may be replaced with aftermarket components. Full tube-type chassis vehicles prohibited.

Front Suspension

Stock-type front suspension, or stock bolt in type replacement front suspension required. Tubular front suspension is ok. Coilover shocks/struts are ok.

Rear Suspension

Stock type chassis and stock type suspension is required (stock style suspension as equipped by manufacturer). Coilover shocks and springs permitted in both front and rear suspension. Shocks and spring may be relocated. Standard bolt on replacement suspension and chassis components are ok. Tubular bolt in front K-members and A-arms are ok. Back-half vehicles are prohibited. Ladder bars and/or aftermarket 4 links are prohibited. Wheel bars are prohibited.

Street Equipment

In order to compete, all vehicles and/or drivers are required the following:

  1. Valid driver’s license.
  2. Valid vehicle registration.
  3. Valid license plate (s). Dealer plates prohibited. Paper license tag will be accepted on a new model year car with current registration paperwork less than 60 days old from current event date.
  4. Valid Insurance “ID” card. Faxes and/or letters from insurance and/or brokers not acceptable.
  5. Valid state inspection sticker (If required by the state the vehicle is registered).
  6. T. Radials or D.O.T. Slicks on front and rear of vehicle.
  7. Hood is required, may be made of lightweight material. Hood scoops are ok. Hood/scoop may be liftoff.
  8. All OEM safety glass windows required and must be functional. Lexan permitted.
  9. Performance aftermarket or OEM style functioning Driver and Passenger seats required.
  10. During the tech-in process, vehicle must have operational street equipment, including headlights, taillights, brake lights, turn signals and horn.

Tires: Front and Rear

D.O.T. slick tires or D.O.T. legal radials tires are required for entry into the class and are required for the road tour and the Modular True Street Competition and class run off. Racing slicks prohibited. Maximum actual measured tire size is as follows: Actual measured tread of all racing slick-type tire is limited to 10.75 inches. For D.O.T. radial tires, maximum sidewall designation permitted is 325mm. Tire height is unrestricted. A “go/no go” gauge will be used to measure tire width. Tire shavings prohibited. Tire change is prohibited during or after the road tour. Vehicles equipped with the factor 345 D.O.T. Radials are permitted to compete with the 345 style D.O.T. Radial on an 18-inch rim.

If your car traps over 175mph, we’ll allow bias ply/non DOT tires due to safety considerations.

Wheels

Wheels: Spindle mount front wheels prohibited.

23-mile Cruise

There will be a 23-mile supervised cruise on local Bradenton city streets prior to competition, limited to those vehicles that have passed tech inspection. An escort will supervise the cruise in accordance with local laws and ordinances. Each competitor and crew will be on their own during the escort and cruise and bear the full responsibility of their actions as they would on any city streets. Please be safe and follow the traffic laws on the cruise.

Support Vehicles

Support vehicles (tow vehicles, crew, etc.) are allowed on the road tour but must trail behind the True Street participants and the escort at all times. All support vehicles are on their own recognizance and must obey all applicable local safety and traffic laws.

Disqualification/Completion

Cruise is mandatory in the time allotted for competition. Any vehicle unable to complete the road tour under its own power, within the allotted time, will be disqualified from racing. Any vehicle that falls behind the trailing escort will be disqualified.

Cooldown Period/Return Procedures

After the vehicles return from the road tour, they will return direction to the designated staging lanes for the cooldown period. Changing tires is prohibited. The cooldown period will typically last between 15 minutes to 1 hour depending on the classes and potential delays.

During the cool-down period only, entrants are allowed to:

  1. Adjust tire pressure (add or remove).
  2. Install fresh nitrous bottles.
  3. Install ice in their intercooler
  4. Hoods can be opened but you CANNOT touch anything inside the engine bay unless you are adding ice to intercooler. Automatic disqualification if you touch anything inside the hood that is not the intercooler. Driver must stay with the vehicle and ready to close the hood and race. Any extra delay will result in a disqualification.

Anything not listed above is prohibited.

No refueling allowed once the car leaves on the cruise. Engines must remain turned off during the entire cooldown period. External cooling of engine by any means (cold water, outdoor fans, etc.) prohibited. Any engine changes, repairs, or adjustments are prohibited. Changing of tires is prohibited. External charging of battery/batteries prohibited.

Race Format

When called to “load up” in the staging lanes, all Modular True Street competitors must report to their cars and prepare to make three back-to-back quarter mile passes. Vehicles with air-to-water intercoolers may add ice to intercooler tanks between back-to-back passes, even if intercooler tank is located inside the interior of the vehicle. Delaying the staging lane will result in disqualification so be quick with your ice so you don’t slow down the staging lane.

Final Standings

After three quarter mile passes are completed, each racer’s ET will be added and the average of these three passes will be computed. The outcome of the 3-run average will be posted Sunday morning, and the awards presentation will be held Sunday. On a qualifying run, if a contestant properly starts, stages and received the starters signals but breaks to the point that the run can’t be completed, a time of 28 seconds is issue and it is considered a valid qualifying run.

Back-To-Back Passes

Tire pressure may be checked in the staging lanes or between rounds, and may be lowered or raised at any time during the back-to-back passes as long as this function is performed by the driver only and cannot alter the run order or delay the competitor’s ability to move to the ready line when instructed. Vehicles are required to make three full passes in order to be included in the final average ET tally.

All vehicles must run three passes in the same order as the first pass. Any attempt to gain additional cool down time between the rounds will result in a disqualification. The only possible exception to this rule is the use of a parachute, if the vehicle requires it due to ET and MPH. One crew member can be placed in the staging lanes to aid in the re-packing of the parachute.

However, the chute must be re-packed in a manner as not to be disruptive to competition rounds. There will be separate staging lanes designated for any vehicle need to re-pack parachutes. Any vehicle unable to start under its own power will be disqualified. Once all rounds have been completed, prize money and awards will be given based on the final average of all three quarter mile passes. During, and in-between the back-to-back passes, no changes may be made to the vehicle other than lowering the tire pressure.

Nitrous and fuel may not be installed/replenished. Nitrous bottles may be turned off and back on while in the staging lanes before and during the three back-to-back passes. Vehicles with air-to-water intercoolers may add ice to intercooler tank between back-to-back passes, even if the intercooler tank is located on the interior of the vehicle.

The driver is the only person allowed to push vehicle in the staging lanes between runs.

The driver has to stage by themselves. There shall be no person on the track to line up and stage the driver and car.

Weight Breaks

There is no minimum weight.

Driver

When in the vehicle the driver is required to have all safety restraints systems (including helmet) on and securely fastened in the vehicle at all times