See what happens when you have a sleepless night on the cusp of a new Forza Cycle? You dream up stuff like this. Ta, friggin' da...
Forza Street Rod Association
Or
FSRA as it will come to be known. In order to belong to this organization you must own at least one of a growing list of cars with the following criteria:
- The car must be found in one of the Forza IV dealerships.
- Year of manufacture within the Muscle Car Era. This time span seems to be some what undefined, or more accurately, defined differently by many. For our purposes; the years between 1964 and 1976.
- They must be of American manufacture.
- ahh, come on! You all know which ones they are.
Cars that may be debated...
- 1957 TBird and 1960 Corvette. These are Classics, not generally accepted as Muscle Cars.
- The Shelby Cobra and Daytona. The Cobra had an English mfg. Chasis and the Daytona was a full blown race car that was never seen on the streets.
- The 1977 Trans Am (Bandit's ride) and the 1978 Mustang King Cobra. The Muscle car era is considered dead at the time these were manufactured. We'll see...
That leaves us with more than 30 cars to choose from.
The FSRA defines four classes.
- Street Stock SS
- Street Tuner ST
- Street Rod SR
- Trans Am Golden Era TAGE
Specs: Well, except for the TAG class, there are none, save the descriptions below. As for the TAGE, we'll work up the specs soon as at least a couple of us have the game in hand.
SS Other than the tuner parts, few if any parts above the Street level. I have found that most of the muscle cars already include the Street level engine parts, so there will be little to add there anyhow. The car is brand new. You just got it. You don't run out to the parts store and start replacing parts. It'll screw up your warranty, and your insurance. Street level tire compound, stock width and rim diameter. You most likely will have changed rims though...
ST Now you got some miles on 'er. Some of the new parts are wearing out, so you might as well replace them something that has some heat to it. You probably have a second car by now so your
ride is not responsible for getting to work or grocery fetching duties, so it can spend more time in the shop, getting repaired or updated. Hopefully, you have a better job by now and you can afford to be a bit frivolous with your baby... There's a few Sport Level parts now and any Street level parts that weren't added in your SS build. There may even be an engine swap if it is era specific. Like you may be able to install a 421 SD (1963) engine in your GTO, or a 427 from a Corvette in your Z-28, or a Thunderbolt 427 into your '65 GT Coupe. No 2004 crate motors please. Wider Tires and taller rims now. You are starting to daydream of magazine covers, and a big photo spread starting on page 26.
SR Okay, now you've gone off the deep end. The wife is starting to complain about the time and money you spend on the car. She accuses you of loving your car more than her and you have to bite your tongue.
(Note: do not let her see you bite your tongue. This is the beginning of many divorces) Now you have almost all the Sport level parts, the widest tires. Hell, you may be running DOTs now. You don't drive it much any more, except to the local drag strip, or roundy rounder track if your town has one. There's autocrosses and poker runs and... and... Lately you have been checking out trailers, and you bought a small mig welder for your garage recently.
I've built up the spreadsheets for all four classes, and a custom set of leaderboards that include Kaido, the Benchmark, and any other No Am track, real or otherwise. I am working on a bracket racing idea and a leaderboard to go with it.
Okay, I'm sleepy now. I'm gonna hit the sack.
See y'all later.
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