I would have to agree, you can get air into them with scoops, and Flex-A-Lites work awesome.

I doubt the teams that changed their shocks last year threw there old ones in the garbage.  Their old ones are still legal so just bolt them back on. Whats the problem?
Sheridan is in a tough spot because they have to cut costs and slow down the cars in all divisions because of previous rule changes that got made that shouldn't have gone through. 

Those shocks only last about 5-7 nights Jeff.........And what the heck fans were you running Jim to have blades fly off and heating problems? Electric fans haven't been part of that class for very long, back when everyone was mechanical I don't remember people having heating issues or blades flying off.......We ran 195 all night long with the flex-a-lite plastic fan.

100% agree

I doubt the teams that changed their shocks last year threw there old ones in the garbage.  Their old ones are still legal so just bolt them back on. Whats the problem?

Old ones were junk that's why the change, they lost their consistancy in one night of racing. Maybe we all need to go to the mono-ball monroe they ran 10 years ago in the late models and Super Series to keep the cost down (lol). From what I remember teams would buy and dyno 20 - 30 shocks and never use 80% cause they were crap and inconsistant.

Now teams will buy the SS Pro Shocks, take them out ever couple of weeks to dyno them (at a cost) and buy new ones once they go out of spec for them. Guess that's a savings some where. Again the teams with the $ will get the better shocks.

You can never make a racer save money he will always find some where else to spend it. Racers are also monkey see monkey do, so the racer with out that change, modification, etc will eventually spend the $ to get it.

If you want 100% parity in cars I think the racing series was IROC, your given a car and you race it, want to all try that next year. ;D

The fan I was running, since you asked was a racing fan I bought from McColls with a gift certificate we won when Jake was still running the JCAR. The gift certificate was for $25 and I recall I still had to up another $42 bucks. As for the electric it saved us from not having the mechanical fan shred the rad on at least two wrecks caused by yellow stripe drivers. I didn't go whining up to the trailer about the rookies killing our stuff, it's a part of racing.
The shock deal is a bit of a joke, our shocks were on the second season and we finished ummm 3rd the night the shock fiasco started. I'm not arguing they are not as good as the rebuildables but I'm willing to bet PRO would argue the point they aren't going to fail as fast as beleived since they are made in Canada I bet we can find them and ask them. If you read the rule book the point of the shock being 99 dollars didn't matter...They weren't sealed!!! thereby making them illegal if they were free!!! If everybody FOLLOWS the rules we are all going to be on the same page...good, bad or indifferent. I recall NASCAR has a shock rule in the Cup series that was initiated to control costs. It's not about IROC racing it's about cost control. 

OMG air ducts wow I never thought of that one!! I think that wadded up thing covering the rad was an airduct at one time. I'za sho glad I gots yall to hepp me git my car werkin a might better