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Alright, we get it! NHRA sucks, Stock eliminator sucks and it was so much better 30 years ago, everybody is cheating, etc.

Re: "Live From" US Nationals Indy 2019
 

You may be laughing but two are already out from what I’ve heard and the tech guys are doing a pretty good job getting involved with getting this deal straightened out going forward. It actually looks like the tech personnel care about the classes and I’m glad to see it.

Rumor alert from connected tech people: the 1.20 rule will be back in play next year. If you wanted to show off your stuff at Indy with no penalty, this might’ve been the final year for that.

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Thanks Nick, I couldn't have set it better myself.


On another note as this is a live from thread and not lets bash NHRA every chance we get. Gary Summers is out as his head was incorrect for his combo. So that is two cars out Summers and Brannon.

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Have to start sometime.

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3 class wins for JRP.
FS/B Jim Ronzello
FS/E Charlie Downing
FS/G George Wright

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Ken are you able to elaborate on the incorrect head? only legal head in 77' is the D7OE-DA was the -DA not what he was running or was it not the D7OE at all?? curious as we have another year Ford head that we believe is also being run or has been with the -XX not matching but the XXXX- matches...

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I want to be the first to let everyone know, that we (3649 D/SA) didnt make it through tech. Unfortunately a few grams in the piston assembly cost us our chance this year. Nothing we did intentionally, it's a brand new engine from the engine builder, something must have been missed. We hate it of course, but we were treated with respect by Wesley and crew, and if it's wrong, it's wrong. Just wanted to dispel any rumors before they get started.

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Also, I think NHRA should think about doing teardown in this manner.. Since we know they don't have the man power to do everyone..






Option A: Pull 2 cars from each 10 car group in qualifying until the top 70 and then 1 car after that for each group of 10...
1-10-- 2 cars
11-20--2
21-30--2
31-40--2
41-50--2
51-60--2
61-70--2
71-80--1
81-90--1
91-100--1
101-110--1
111-120--1
122-128--1
20 cars total...


Option B: If they only plan to do 12 like this year.. put until you have deemed 12 legal.. so in this years case at least 2 more guys would get pulled. If any of the other 10 we haven't heard yet get tossed you'd pull more.. So for this year say 10 pass and Summer and Brannon get tossed pull 2 more if one or both are tossed pull one or 2 more until you've verified 12 legal tear downs.. if the first 12 had all been legal you're done...


Any thoughts on these in terms of making the teardown better?

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Kevin McKenna,
Please post all the class winner photos if possible. Always a highlight for me.

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Just verifying. It was the total weight of piston, rings, rod, bearings, bolts, wrist pin?