Re: Yet another bogu horsepower factor
 

Greg,

1) Didn't mean to make it personal
2) Its DARYL not DARRELL
3)Yes,we have the slowest cars in the country!
4)We have a good engine builder,thank you!
5)Yes,we have a good converter and transmission builder,thanks again!
6)Running in the 10's does NO good when some are 10.50!
7) We try our best to run as competitively as possible within budget and stay LEGAL!
8) WE DO spend money....I just spent $800 for some front wheels!
9) ANY heads up race and WE are DEAD!
10)What does this have to do with WHINING about bogus horsepower factors???
(I didn't start the thread)
You should be HAPPY that YOU have cars in your division like ours that YOU can beat easily,even though there are SOME being built that can beat you easily!

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This is a very funny post.As far as #7 goes you do have the option to protest anyone you feel is "Enhanced".
Maybe using the money for #8 could have bought some HP for your car.
If #s 4 and 5 are true why are you so slow?
This has been a very amusing Sunday in the land of make believe.

Re: Yet another bogu horsepower factor
 

Does anybody realize that if there are no faster cars than you there is absolutly no incentive to work harder and go faster?

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Art. Incentive is not the issue here. there isn't anything any "old" stocker can do to run with one of theses new cars. nothing short of stopping it from getting to the starting line.

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HP numbers are totally arbitrary.........A car is looking like it's real fast compared to others in it's class if it is factored way wrong.

LT-1's in 1996-1997 were doing the same thing. They were at something like 275 or 285 when new.....Now they are at 346.......


I had a G-H/SA '69 Nova for a short stint back then.....not very fast but I was working on it slowly.....Saw one of those early LT-1's run in the 11.20's and 11.1's at one race at Maple Grove. It was in either G or H/SA at the time......Felt like the old cars were done...sold the Nova.....It took a while but the LT-1's continued to get HP and now they are about even or maybe a little down to some cars they run against today....and they run much higher on the class ladder....

The DP's and Mustangs appear to be at least as improperly HP rated as the LT-1's were........

If NHRA had a Tech Dept with any integrity....they'd step in and make some corrections to make it a more level playing field.....

Their biggest problem is they have no classes to stick these cars in.....unless they are forced into Super stock and that is realy where they belong....

A Stocker that can run 145 mph is not a Stocker.....

A new model Stocker that can run more than 1 second under on the brakes on the newly lowered indexes......has a bogus HP factor.....

Re: Yet another bogu horsepower factor
 

Rich,

You in this thread and others in other threads have all pointed out great examples of the self-correcting nature of HP factoring...Run fast Sunday, get HP Monday... But nobody is really arguing against your point. Are the HP factors "fair", probably not entirely... But like with the LT-1s, the system is in place and in time it won't be an issue anymore.

What I am saying is that while everyone who feels wronged is calling the NHRA names, and questioning the integrity of the Tech staff (talk about poking a beehive with a stick...do you guys realize how counterproductive that could be? Never mind... Keep it up..I want to tech through before you do, since they probably won't be in a good mood when they get to you..) the system is at work, and CJs and 6.1 DPs already have taken hits. So most of us know it is just a matter of time before the balance is again achieved..

Once again, hold your breath and stamp your feet,if you wish. But it is simply a matter of time before the winds of change blow over these cars, and they no longer threaten your sense of fairness. But don't get used to that feeling. Because then we will be on to the next generation of direct injection/variable timing, etc, etc....and the cries of OMG it isn't fair to the rest of us....

Life isn't fair. But it can be fun, if you let it...

David
The New Hemi Guy

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may i once again reiterate... the Automatic Help For Slugs (AHFS) cannot and will not EVER work... been saying that same damn sentence for 6 years...no body EVER listens to me they just think im old & stupid

if we dont get a HP "committee" to fix this bogus **** we will cease to exist.

oh by the way an all new car national event is on the way indy, maybe as soon as 2011... just what NHRA wants ... new cars, lots of factory support and lots of heads ups... and we the old guys will be running nostalgia at the good guys race the following weekend.

captain jack

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Jack, I don't think you are old and stupid. But I don't agree with you.

The system looks like it works, it just takes time..

As for the Good Guys thing, that actually sounds like fun to me...

I took my 70 Challenger 440 6PAK convertible (my summer driver) to a Good Guys Blue Suede Cruise event and had a pretty good time.
I got all sideways in a heads up run, but didn't break anything, so for me, that is fun.

And they really know how to honor old hardware too.

David
The New Hemi Guy

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More than 10 years and more than 50 HP.... Yah, the system works *great*. :rolleyes: So how long do you think it'll take to get the new cars anywhere in the right zipcode?

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Good point but that was for GM cars, it may take only 5yrs for the FORDS
Dale