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Didnt he get DQ'ed after the Championship year in the Buick for having pistons in the engine with a bunch of valve impressions on them from beating the valves against them thus allowing a little extra piston to valve clearance ? From what I remember and hearing they were pretty deep. But then....thats old news and it dosent count anymore. It was a long time ago.
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That's the story I thought I remembered. Won the championship, DQ'ed at the Winters, only Champion to be suspended for his #1 year.
There was supposedly another Stock champ who was TOLD not to defend his title due to some unknown reasons.
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Jason was the 1993 Stock Champion with the Buick. The piston problem was another story and it has not been correctly told in this thread yet.
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OK, Tony.
What's the REST of the story?
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Jason came to the 1993 World Finals but did not come to the 1994 Winternationals.
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IIRC, he had the pistons on the rods backwards to reduce friction on the cylinder walls.
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Unless I'm mistaken, The NHRA guide accepted one piston for 70-72, which was actually the higher compression piston from 1970. Using it in a 71 or 72 got you more compression and from the Benisek days (72) forward no one ever corrected it in the guide or in anyones engine. I believe, the story that went around the Buick comunity, was Jason was claiming the car as a 71 but it had "the wrong" 1970 pistons per the 70 spec. AND it was the same piston config everyone with a Buick 455 had run for 20 plus years-just got enforced on him..... This is what I remember from a lifetime of Buick ownership, but is not necassarily what happened here-my memory sucks at this age compared to 20 years ago.
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Correct me if I am wrong but, didn't he win the Championship without winning a National event or the Divisional?
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