IHRA answers this part for 29 of its classes. 29 of those answers are permissions, with or without limits attached, and 0 are not.
This is one body's answer, not the sport's. You are bound
by whichever body sanctions the event you enter, and where both govern you,
you are held to the stricter of the two. The differences are set out in
the rulebook comparison.
Where it stands, class by class
29 classes, grouped by the answer rather than listed one by
one, because an answer that holds for a class usually holds for every class
that borrows its rules.
Legal, within limits 26 classes
Aftermarket or modified, full-length type with at least one bar parallel to the driveshaft, dropping no more than 12.00mm (0.47 in) below the flat plane of the pump intake. · J.18.1
Required. Full-length with a bar parallel to the driveshaft, or horizontally mounted blocking at least 40% of the intake area. Leading edges radiused. Limits: max below pump intake plane 12 mm, alt min blocked area 40 per cent. · CC.4.3
Aftermarket intake grate: 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.
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