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Mini Van Rules

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BUILD

1. This class is for mini vans, Nothing full size will be allowed to run in this class.

2. All factory body mount bolts must remain factory.

3.Hoods may be wired or chained in 8 spots. You may use ½” all thread at the core support all the way through the hood with a 3 inch 2” x 2” x ¼” spacer at the core support. You are permitted a 4” x 2” x ¼” piece of angle iron welded to the fender and hood to secure the hood on each side of the fender. You may use 5/16” chain or two strands of #9 wire per hole. It must be sheet metal to sheet metal only. No welding washers for holes is permitted. There must be a 12" hole in the hood in case of fire. You must remove the hood latch. Hoods must be open for inspection.

4. The doors must be chained or wired or welded in 8 places mandatory per door and no more than 2 double stains of wire per spot or three 5” straps per door seam. The wire from the bottom of the doors may go around the frame. You may use 5/6” chain or two strands of #9 wire per hole. Driver's front door only may be skinned or plated, but not to exceed more than 2” max past any factory door seam.

5. Front Windshield area must have wire or bar from roof to fire wall. No more than 3 inches back on the roof and the top of the fire wall. This is mandatory!!!!

6. No seam welding will be permitted on the body. Repairing sheet metal is limited to where the battery box and gas tank are and the driver’s area of the floorboards of the car. Must have approval with pictures.

7. You may leave the stock gas tank in the stock location if it is in front of the rear axle, or you may replace the gas tank with a metal boat tank or aftermarket fuel cell. No stock gas tanks inside of the vehicle are allowed. No plastic tanks are allowed.

8. You may weld the spider gears to make it posi. Must be stock gear, stock rearend for your make and model.

9. The tailgates must be chained or wired in no more than 8 places. Two of these may go around the bumper and/or the frame. You are not required to have a tailgate. No welding or adding metal is permitted. No tucking, wedging, pre bending, smashing, folding, or anything else you can think of is permitted. 

10. Must have a roof sign, it can not be used to tie the cage into the body or cage to window bar. It is to identify your car nothing more.

11. Radiator guards are allowed, nothing thicker then 1/8. You can either use 4-3/8 bolts or 6- 1 inch welds to mount guard. This guard can not be mounted to the front bumper, Guards can only be 3 inches wider then the factory core support opening.

 

CAGE

You can have a 4 point cage that must be no bigger than 6” x 6” x 1/4". The door bars can’t be any bigger than 60” long. You may have a rollover bar but it must run straight across and can only be welded to the top side of the rear seat bar. You are permitted a gas tank holder off the back bar that can be no wider than 24” and must be 6” away from all sheet metal. You are permitted a 6” gusset from the back bar to the gas tank holder no bigger than 2” x 2” x ¼”. No exceptions or you are not permitted to run! These may be no bigger than 2” x 2” and the mounting plate can be no bigger than 6” x 6” and must be mounted no farther than 6” behind the driver’s seat. You may also reinforce the driver’s door as you see fit for driver safety. This may be done from door seam to door seam only. For safety, all vehicles may have 1 windshield bar extending from the roof/halo bar of the car to the top side of the dash bar using 2”x2”. Nothing can go past the front edge of the dash bar. No firewall components can be welded to the dash bar. You are allowed 4 downlegs.

 

Suspension

1. Aftermarket steering column is allowed.

2. You must have factory struts. No welding or adding strength to them.

3. You may use store bought knuckle busters or spring spacers to gain height in the front end. Bolt on strut spacers is allowed. Must bounce.

4. Stock type springs and shocks are permitted. No solid suspension. No wire, chains, or any welding on the rear ends or rear spring pockets. Cars must bounce and cars must be stock. You are permitted an aftermarket lower control arm but it must be from an auto parts store. No welded control arms are permitted. You must have a factory sway bar and it must be bolted on (No exceptions).

 

DRIVETRAIN

1. You may run engine/transmission of choice. 

2. Run any tire / rim combo you wish.

3. Aftermarket shifters, transmission coolers, gas pedals, and headers are allowed.

 

FRAMES

1. Absolutely no painting or spraying any material on frames or welds.

2. No shaping or hammering of the frame. You may notch or dimple the rear.

3. The front may be shortened to the front edge of the factory core support mount.

4. All trailer hitches and braces must be removed.

5. Shortening of the rear frame, body, and unibody is not allowed in any way.

6. No frame welding other than what is stated in the rules.

7. All fresh cars are permitted four 6”x6”x1/4” square fix it plates. All pre-ran cars are permitted six 6”x6”x1/4” square fix it plates. Once plates are put on, they may not be cut off and moved. There must be a 1” gap between the welds of these plates.

8. Do not seam weld unibody or sub frame.

 

Bumpers

1. Run any factory car bumper you wish, NO pointy bumpers.

2. Homemade bumpers are allowed, but can only be 6" x 6" x 1/4" thick box tubing and must be flat. do not add any point to this.

3. Replica bumpers are allowed, You may use an aftermarket bolt together bumper and it can be seam welded but nothing thicker then 1/4. The 4-inch point that is for the bolt together bumpers is allowed.

4. You may cap the end of the frame with 6” x 6” x 1/4" plate to create a flat mounting surface. (No over lapping onto frame)

5. Bumpers may be narrowed, but no sharp ends allowed.

6. You must have two spots of 3/8 chain or 9 wire going from the bumper to the core support, this is to hold your bumper on if the welds were to break. Do not weld links together to make chain stiff.

7. Bumpers must be bolted and welded on in the factory location.