Automatic Horsepower Factoring System

[Rich Biebel]

It's hard for me to say this, but I agree with Ed on that one I poured quite a few heads in my machine shop days. Mostly S.B. Chevy's and 12 cc's ain't happenin, and not "by accident" at least as far as the Chevy's are concerned.....they ain't even close to the NHRA numbers.....I poured my LT-1 before I put it together 2 years ago...guess what.....same deal! Well under the spec......

[Bruce Noland]

Dick,

Lots of performance changes by nhra and a stone wall to run into when you make the accepted changes. That's the problem.

Geeezz Jack where the devil have you been? There have been a ton of posts that you could have jumped on since your last post.

[Ron Ortiz]

Hey Bruce, all you have to do to get The Captain on here is bring up the AHFS. He really shows his emotional side.
By eliminating the trigger all you have to do is look at how quick the car in question went under. Does it need to be looked at closer and maybe inspected internally? Probably.
NHRA has added enough of stuff for individuals to run quicker than their indexes than they did in the past two years. But the indexes are not that soft, yes they are if you want to spend the big bucks to keep up with the Jonses though. Hey, did'nt they just allow more work to be allowed to heads?

BSA, my car is a '67 Belvedere wagon with a 273 ci 2bbl. The index is 15.15. Do any of you out there think that a car like that from the showroom could run a 15.15. NO, probably a 19 to 20 second might be appropiate, so by blueprinting, adding a gear and headers, beefing up the trans, getting down to minimum weight, and adding a stock lift cam, you might get to the index. If you can get a rental car or a daily driver to hit the index right off the bat, you definitley have hit upon a great combo, or it really needs HP.

You guys out there need to quit thinking about lowering the indexes, and start looking at the other end of the speed spectrum, thats where the problem exists. The slower end of cars are'nt doing any harm to the fast guys, it's the fast guys against the really fast guys.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA I need more money, please send me some, and I will lower the index

[bsa633]

Originally Posted by Ron Ortiz

BSA, my car is a '67 Belvedere wagon with a 273 ci 2bbl. The index is 15.15. Do any of you out there think that a car like that from the showroom could run a 15.15. NO, probably a 19 to 20 second might be appropiate, so by blueprinting, adding a gear and headers, beefing up the trans, getting down to minimum weight, and adding a stock lift cam, you might get to the index. If you can get a rental car or a daily driver to hit the index right off the bat, you definitley have hit upon a great combo, or it really needs HP.

No i dont think that..just trying to be a little ironic...I didn't run the index for years when i started out(it was lower then ofcourse) but if someone only can get .3 under with todays standards and knowledge and been doing this for awhile it seems to me that they just wanna hang in there with as little effort as possible or have a totally wrong factored car....neither of those should be what dictate what the standards for a index should be...I agree that the stuff needs to be policed better to keep it fair for those who get hp when someone breaks the standards..BUT THIS IS to my best knowledge STILL a PERFORMANCE BASED eliminator..so the lower end should not be whats setting the standards for indexes and such! When the dial under bracket format was implemented it was to even out performance differences at the time,not to make it a bracket race!

[JIM BOUDREAU]

Well said Bsa!!!!!! Ididn't run the index when Istarted also. I watched Bobby Warrens bumber for years! Still am.