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That all sounds good until you hook it back up for class and dump at the 1000'! Now someone has new short times to review.....

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Based on what they are proposing it appears they are not interested in Class racing.

Just a bracket race with qualifying on your index. No incentive to build fast combinations or work on your junk.

Am I wrong?

Robin

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they want get away from any tech. less employees at national events and divisional events. soon you will see the tracks doing tech with no nhra personal, just division director there to pick up the check

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There's a pile of guys just waiting for Heads-Up runs and I'm one of them. Most are just quiet. They'll just show up and be ready when the opportunity presents itself. When I'm announcing I make those Heads-Up runs as exciting as any Top Fuel. I've seen the (few) people in the stands get into it when they realize what's going on. Most announcers they use now are lame IMO.

Not only is drag racing going away all of the old school people are gone. Wally, Bernie, Zimmerman, and the rest of caring guys, all gone, and all of the talented announcers, gone. Maybe two or three left. And the egotistical bunch currently in charge don't have enough respect to bring me in now. It's a "me, me, me" world now and it shows.

All we can do is go out in style, racing our asses off, until they close them all down.

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You know it's heads-up racers like you that are ruining Stock Eliminator. What is that makes you think that years of hard work on a from-scratch BIW Mustang suddenly proves you worthy to even comment on here?

You know where to find me.....

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The mistake you made was allowing this heads up racer to drive those COPO's. Hell the only time need to work on them is in the barn when setting records or going fast at Indy.
Be nice, I can mess up the tune ups in those COPO's .

What is that 302 rated? I'll meet you in FS/G with my little ol 302 and we can see who prevails in a heads up race!

Robin

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I am a sponsor here, does that count?

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That makes it worse. Your posts reek of favoritism!!

I don't know if I can find enough weight to get to G. Maybe they will let me tow a trailer?

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Not to worry, I know a guy.......

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Keep it up guys, I'm loving this!

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Gump, Robin, I really am enjoying your "tongue-in-cheek discussion" that you have going on here BUT, if I may interrupt it for just a few I'd like to tell you and the rest of the members a bit of a "right now" Billy story. The other day I had a "buddy" pick up his stuff. It's all good stuff and every time I have to deal with his stuff I'm always told that "money is no object". Today I finished repairing another "buddy's" stuff because he doesn't have the money for good, new stuff. The commonality between these two "buddys" is that they're both NHRA Stock Eliminator Racers. They both support NHRA and hit a bunch of races each year. My point being, NHRA or Lonnie or the SRAC or who ever is making the decisions at the top should be trying to keep both of these "buddys" happy and racing.

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Who said it's "tongue-in-cheek"? I'm really hoping that Robin's BOGUS hot rod gets the HP it deserves......

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This was not a throttle limiter. I had a few friends about 35 years ago that would use this on a QJet. This would set your rpm you staged at. Hit the toggle switch and it would open your carb the same every run. For it to limit your throttle it would have to be on the other side of the linkage. BP

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Barry,

In this particular case, the guy had it rigged to limit the throttle opening and got caught. It was directly hooked to the throttle lever with a modified bracket. NHRA Tech made him remove it and took it away.