Around Nashville, stock appearing is usually stock carburetor and must look stock from 5ft away. You'll find a lot of places running classes called Predator Mod or Super Stock which are mild stock appearing classes that may have a claim rule on the engines.
Most of the opens are restricted to 4-cycle industrial-based engines, no 2-cycle, mx, snowmobile, motorcycle, etc. Some may allow billet blocks but it's really overkill for local racing and the track are usually bullrings, so you'll never get the power down.
Outside Nashville, it's a mixed bag of rules. Stock Appearings will sometimes allow GX390 carburetors and some of the MARS series will allow any carburetor that came stock on the engine, so if you have an Animal or a Shredder Engine they had factory slide carburetors. Georgia Stock Appearing has a ruleset posted on their Facebook page, their rules try to reduce more costly modifications, mostly to the head.
Opens for big race events and money races are usually restricted to 14.5ci unless you run UAS. Other rules may restrict modifications to cast blocks and cast heads.
We're in Dickson, Tn not far from Nashville, right off the 163 on I-40 if you need any help.
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