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Aftermarket air intake or cold air system, IHRA

IHRA answers this part for 24 of its classes. 4 of those answers permit the part outright and 13 permit it with stated conditions, leaving 7 that do not. 3 of the ones that do not are classes we read as open rather than as refusing it. 7 are inferred from how the class is written rather than quoted from a rule naming this part.


Where it stands, class by class

24 classes, grouped where the same rule gives the same answer rather than listed one by one, because an answer that holds for a class usually holds for every class that borrows its rules.

What each answer below means

Not permitted, not listed in the rules
Treat it as coming off. The class requires the craft to stay stock except where the rules allow otherwise, and this part is not on the list, so this is our reading rather than a rule we can quote at you.
Legal, with conditions
Keep it, but measure it: the rules permit this part only inside stated limits.
Legal
Keep it. The rules permit this part in this class.
No rule, this is an open class
Probably keep it. The class carries no stock clause at all, so anything unlisted appears to be open. The rulebook does not say so in terms, and this is our reading rather than a permission anybody wrote down.

Not permitted, not listed in the rules 1 class

The pipes joining the turbo to the existing intake travel with the turbo under the reading of what DD.7 presupposes. An aftermarket air intake or cold air system beyond them is not in DD.7, and the DD preamble says what is not listed is not legal. · DD.7

Legal, with conditions 6 classes

The ducting between the flame arrester and the throttle body may be modified or aftermarket, or only as far as the airflow sensor where one is fitted, and nothing downstream of the sensor may change. No cold air system is named, so the allowance stops at that ducting.

Legal, with conditions 2 classes

Where no airflow sensor is fitted, the ducting between the flame arrester and the throttle body may be modified. The clause names no aftermarket ducting, gives nothing for an engine with a sensor and names no cold air system.

Legal, with conditions 1 class

May connect to one side of the air vent connector only. · DD.1

Legal, with conditions 1 class

Outside air allowed but must remain flush with the top deck. NO SCOOPS. · DD.3

Legal, with conditions 1 class

Outside air flush with the top deck. No scoops. · DD.4

Legal, with conditions 1 class

The ducting between the flame arrester and the throttle body may be modified, but the airflow sensor and any turbocharger system stay unmodified, and no cold air system is named. · BB.4.1

Legal, with conditions 1 class

Four-stroke entries may modify, replace or remove the airflow sensor and may modify or replace the ducting between the flame arrester and the throttle body, provided performance and safety are not compromised. No cold air system is named. · V.5.2

Legal 1 class

Aftermarket air intake systems are permitted, without the vent connector, flush-mount or scoop limits other drag classes set. · DD.2

Legal 1 class

The air intake system may be modified or replaced with aftermarket parts, provided every component operates safely. · X.3.2

No rule, this is an open class 2 classes

The class states only what it bans and calls itself run what you brung, against a section DD preamble that says anything unlisted is illegal.

No rule, this is an open class 1 class

No restriction in section CC, and CC.1 permits any modification it does not restrict.


Aftermarket air intake or cold air system: if the rule your class applies reads differently to you, or the rulebook has changed since this was read, ask. We answer with the section we read it from, or that we have not read it. Ask a rules question.

Every IHRA class · where the rulebooks differ · checks on parts the shop sells · how this site reads a rulebook.

Fuel · four stroke · legal in 17 of 24 answered, 13 with conditions

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