TA SFI Flexplate Out of Date?

So I bought an SFI 29.2 flexplate from TA for my Buick 350. I mostly did this for the added safety. It's made by JW transmission. It arrives and has an SFI cert date of July 2019. It seems that flexplates need to be re-certified every 3 years, so this one is already out of date.

Now I personally don't plan to use this car in NHRA or other events that require this cert, but it does irk me a little that TA is selling parts to could be a paperweight to someone who does compete and actually care about this cert. I don't think JW will re-certify flexplates anymore (waiting for email back to confirm). I'm mostly likely just going to bolt it on and run it . . . but what if I did decide I wanted to do some drag racing someday? I'd either have to pull the trans/flexplate again and send it back to JW, or buy another one with a current cert. Does that mean I spent the extra $370 for no reason when I could have picked up an OEM flexplate for much less? Apparently this piece is chromoly so it should be stronger but . . . what do you guys think?

 

I would just run it.
I use a stock TA flex plate on mine, I don’t think I’m taxing it that much yet with a 13.4
I’ll probably never risk breaking it

 

Until you get into the 9s they won't even look at it. My car has a $600 flex plate in it

 

I know they used to re cert them......it was 75 us shipping g both ways....almost the price of new.

I've never had a nhra tech crawl under the car to check dates half the time the damn sticker falls off

 

Yep, they look at your belts and a quick glance under the hood and your signed off. It when ya go really fast that they get a bit more stringent

 

No problem just run it. The stock ones are very prone to cracking so it’s a smart upgrade. Your SFI flex plate will be much stronger than the stock one for 30 plus Years of use.

 

Thanks all for your replies, on the engine it goes!!

 

You mean I needed to recertify 30 yrs ago oh well

 

Unless they changed it since I last looked, the SFI on flexplates is 5 years from the Date that is indicated on the sticker.. so it's technically good until next year.. but like was said here, I would not worry about that unless your heavy duty nhra racing, and even then they just ask you for the serial number.. no one actually looks at it. They get the serial number, so if it blows up and a piece of it hurts someone, they can go back and look it up. to see if it has current SFI certification.

I would not worry about it in the least..

JW