[SS Engine Guy]

The sanctioning bodies raised the index due to low car counts or for whatever reason. However, they have not "given" us anything in the way of faster parts. All this has been an attempt to appease some people or a group of people who basically couldn't or wouldn't put in the time and money to be fast legally. Threats of legal action, lack of 1 year vacations, DQ's, etc. is what has added to this problem. I have heard all the safety concerns, the lack of available castings, blocks that won't hold up at .060 over. All this crap is what has led to the 5k stocker heads and 10k ss heads etc. Look at the clarification of the crankshaft rule recently. Look at the crossbreeding of parts, the bearing spacers, any carb # as long as the holes are the right size. And most recently any trans. Who asked for any of those things? Those that couldn't be fast using the rules that were in the joke of a rulebook. Subject to over riding or changing or amending as soon as the "right" person or customers couldn't pass tech.

Do what you will with the indexes. I still will prefer heads up anyday.

Pinks (joke) even has the common sense to look at incremental times when one of their guys runs faster than in previous rounds. Factoring isn't really all that hard at all. You just have to have the desire to factor everyone fairly.