[07stanggt]

What do you guys think defines a street car. Where do you draw the line and say, maybe you could tag that car but its not really a street car.

For example, for me one thing would be no roll cage.


Here is another question, if you say street car, and mean street legal car then technically you would say no nitrous, but at the same time, no cats is not a street legal car either depending on the year of the car.


i need some opinions on this from guys like you. I need to come with some guidlines for what is a street car. and the car has to be tagged period. but we all know that doesnt mean anything so thats why i need the guidlines.

[07 procharger]

a car that can sit in 30 plus heat in rush hour and not overheat is a street car in my opinion...everything follows that guide line if you have roll cage...your engine probablly wouldint idle without over heating....am i making sense?

[07stanggt]

yea but be more specific. i need it for that thing i was telling you about. its happening soon.

what do you think about the nitrous issue on that, its not street legal? but like i said, a lot of people will have shit thats not technically street legal. but at the same time lot of guys wont race at that disadvantage to blown guys you know.

[EfylSetaf]

With any classification system you've obviously got some gray areas -- but I think you can keep nitrous in the street car arena, just as if you'd also keep FI in there as well. So long as it's an enthusiast perception thing and not a definition necessitated by legal wrangling.

Procharger's definition does an excellent job, but I think roll cage would bump the car out of the street car class even if it isn't a drivetrain stress.

Maybe street is more emphasis on form than function or sacrificing gains in function for gains in form? Whereas track would be the other way around. For example: I wouldn't put a roll cage in my car because I think it'd look ridiculous since I don't track. So I'm losing the functional benefits of a roll cage because of how I want the car to look.

[AnimalCrackers]

A lot of cars will have things "illegal", as you said, on them. I'd say the best test is doing one of those 3 mile jogs before a race, sometimes tracks do this. If the car can cruise around in 100 degree heat, or sit idling at 100+ heat for 20 minutes, and not get pulled over then it is street legal in my book. This only holds true if they don't "switch on or off" any of their stuff, since people could just unhook their nitrous before the run, change tires, etc. So, aside from the usual "illegal" items like catless exhausts or lower nitrous (say less than 250 shots), then most everything else could be allowed. I'd put a limit on the tires though, they should be DOT legal.

[06RedfireGT]

I would say it isn't a street car when it becomes uncomfortable to drive it any distance.

[07 procharger]

i think im a street car. although i run nitrous...i cant be arrested for having it in my car...grey area

[07stanggt]

this is all you guys got for me? can a mod move this to the clubhouse maybe those boys can help.

[rk_2000_Z/28]

1. Doesn't require a trailer
2. Can run on pump gas

If you HAVE to trailer it for anything longer than like 10, 20 miles or so (I can understand if you want to trailer it long distances to save fuel or miles-but HAVE to is different) and you can't run it safely on pump gas than it's not a street car in my opinion.

A roll cage is fine. You have to have some sort of cage if you are below an 11.5 at a lot of tracks, and today a sub 11.5 really isn't that big of a deal for daily driver cars-so I can let a caged car pass as a street car.

And it DEFINITELY doesn't have to be "street legal" to be a street car because that would eliminate 90% of the modded cars I know of.

[mustangrebuilder]

^ i am with him.

no trailer and have to run pump gas.