NHRA tech or lack thereof

[Bobby DiDomenico]

Originally Posted by Mike Pearson

I actually ran my car with out the shocks on the rear one weekend. One of the shock mount broke on the trip to the track. I took both shocks off of the rear of the car. There was no difference in performance or handling. I was really surprised at that. It was a stick combo at that time

I could see that with stiff springs Mike, the shock isn't really dampening the spring movement. As to shock placement, when Tom Rix was running the Buick in Top Stock we were at a race and I heard IHRA told Monty Bogan to fix the shock mounts on the rear suspension of his Corvette. I told them it wasn't just the shock mounts that were beating all of us, it was the way underfactored engine!

[Mike Pearson]

Originally Posted by Bobby DiDomenico

I could see that with stiff springs Mike, the shock isn't really dampening the spring movement. As to shock placement, when Tom Rix was running the Buick in Top Stock we were at a race and I heard IHRA told Monty Bogan to fix the shock mounts on the rear suspension of his Corvette. I told them it wasn't just the shock mounts that were beating all of us, it was the way underfactored engine!

It had mono leaf springs at the time. Now I have coil overs. Other than ease of working on the car and a little weight reduction there was no improvement when I installed the coil overs from the leaf springs.

[Casey Miles]

Originally Posted by fredjohnston

I guess stockers can relocate shock mounts now? This is a pretty obvious thing for NHRA tech to miss...



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Now that you asked about shock location, NHRA will say it's OK if you put them where ever you want! That way they don't even have to bend over to look under the cars at all. Where does stock mean stock any more. As long as he looks like the year it's declaring, it'll pass tech. Oh yeah, but don't let your seat belts go one day over 2 years.

Casey Miles
248H Stock?

[James Perrone]

Guys a tech man is more concerned about your safety equipment than anything else It's up to the driver to build and legal car. Now if it's brought to there attention they no. Shock clearence is tuff on a nova

[Ron Ortiz]

Tech does it's job, safety first. Problem starts in Glendora, first with the AHFS Committee.

Seen the higher ups override a tech guy more than once, sometimes the show of favoritism is so obvious.

The people who are out there working at the track for *HRA do a great job, especially for the pay they get, and the bologna sandwiches.

Been there, done that.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA just doing what I'm told

[Jim Wahl]

Originally Posted by Ron Ortiz

Tech does it's job, safety first. Problem starts in Glendora, first with the AHFS Committee.

Seen the higher ups override a tech guy more than once, sometimes the show of favoritism is so obvious.

The people who are out there working at the track for *HRA do a great job, especially for the pay they get, and the bologna sandwiches.

Been there, done that.

Ron Ortiz
U/SA just doing what I'm told

Amen Ron! Amen! Jim

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[GUMP]

They took a hard look at the front suspension on my COPO at Bristol. You can't expect them to cover every item on every car at every race. But, if things are pointed out to them, I doubt they would ignore the issue.