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Some years back Wesley and I wrote a system for Stock and Super Stock. It was based on averages for different combinations and did not punish those who worked hard on their combination. It was fair, accurate, and based on what racers were running at the time. And of course NHRA would have no part of it but they did lower the indexes by 3 I think and did a couple of other things. Bob Lang was in charge then and you could at least talk to him. Still better than this mess we have now.
And to Billy Nees, during teardown with my 360 in my 09 Challenger DP, Bruce didn't like the 1/8 " spacer that came with the car. We had all the Mopar people there and explained it was an adapter that was hand made for the 360 and there were only 3 of them made which I had one. We assembled it without the spacer beause they would not give it back. However the car picked up about 1 to 2 mph without it. I never did get it back.
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i have a 71 Pontiac Ventura I would like to race but its only legal with a 250 1bbl 307 2bbl or 72 Pontiac 350 2bbl, for some reason factored much harder than a 73. I do race it in street with the 250 and a weber 38/38 on it. If it was a Nova I could claim anything from 68 to 72 but with the wrong grill and fenders not much you can do with it.
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Thanks for the reply Billy.I like the 250 and I know you are the expert on them. It seems to me that most run the 230, I figured the 1bbl would be even more strained with the larger cubes.
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Yes, you and Wesley did a lot of work and planning on what eventually got turned into the AHFS. We spoke about it a few times. But, NHRA didn't come up with it so they had to come up with their own plan. Now as far as that 1 of 3 hand made spacer, hmmmmmmm.
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Do you have someone in mind?
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EXCEPT for maybe Jeff with that 1 of 3 handmade spacer.
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No names from me of course.That's up to the current NHRA racers to help police this kind of thing. It doesn't look like NHRA cares much about this. Remember the Div.4 guy with the Malibu? He won a couple of points meets in a row, before the Emmons boys made a point of observing the delay box action on the line. No one else seemed to notice a thing. On a similar note, maybe someone could tell me whether or not "drive by wire" is still legal in Stock? If it is , would it be possible for the high powered low 9 second FX cars to leave the line at, say 40% throttle, and then go WFO at a timed point down track? Obviously carbed cars couldn't do this :-)
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The phrase to use for adding "a new rule" in writing
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