Ok, took me a long while to resize all my pics (or most of them at least I will use in this thread). The prior posted shows just a small bit of my build. I did race the car after 95 a few times in 96 and 97 and only on the west coast in Div. 7 from PHX to Sears Point (still classified wrongly at 110HP in GF/SA 25.00 Lbs/HP, though it could not possibly be competitive at that HP rating (Factory is 99).
After the nightmare but fun Drag & Drive "World Tour" as Mark Yacavone called it in a post above in 1995, I was determined to get the combo reviewed since I by then knew nobody except myself had ever campaigned this exact (Car & Engine), combo before in NHRA STK. Elim., and all the data that the NHRA Tech Dept had to go on (and that was completely confirmed when I was at Englishtown, NJ in May of 1995), were my prior runs & the performance, save just 2 Q passes on a very cool morning in February 1995 at the Winternats in Pomona, ca at -.700 under and a smidge more, that was never repeated elsewhere (either before or after, and getting worse by the event/ month).
So, in December 1995 (working again full time, no longer in SoCal, having moved before I left on the tour in 95' for some fun), now in N.W., AZ, I sent in a letter asking that my combo be reviewed, and on Feb 6th, 1996 I received the good news, a letter back from NHRA...They added my factory stock Intake # (that should have been on the sheet the whole time, as Dodge made that change mid year 84'), and reduced my HP on the TBI back to the factory advertised 99HP.
Jenny Craig'ing (a Car Diet was in order), therein lies another story the shipping wt. on a 1984 Daytona 2.2L / 135 CI TBI (Single Point -NON-Turbo edition base 2 door/hatchback coup automatic or stick), was never the 2,444 lbs. as the Classification guide still shows even now in Fall of 2023. (so for all that time I was doubly penalized).
I have the original 1984 Daytona Base (Stick man 5 spd. and Automatic 3 spd.), Turbo, and Turbo Z sales brochure (Manual or Automatic), incl. all specs and standard and options avail. on all the 1984 editions, and have recently downloaded the complete specs for each of the 84' model year editions from
www.automobile-catalog.com provided them by The Chrysler Corp. (I though have yet to find an AMA spec. sheet- if 1 actually exists at all), but all the data I have found so far, and the original Window Sticker on the car agrees (I was there when my Mom picked it up from the Dealer at Cerritos Dodge in Feb. 1995 as a daily driver she purchased), all say the Curb Wt. on the base edition is 2,590 lbs, Shipping Wt. is 2,520. (Both 5 spd. Man./Stick and 3 spd. Automatic, both are Factory HP rated at 99HP, torque 121 lb-ft., 97" wheelbase 3-door coup body style (2 door hatchback), Both EFI (upright Bosch TBI units)-non-turbo (single point injector).
