Re: Pro Mod or Pro Stock?
 

Mark thanks for sharing that video.


To quote John Denver - "FAR OUT"

One of the coolest videos I have seen.

Way more fun than the current crop of Pro Stock cars run by NHRA.

Re: Pro Mod or Pro Stock?
 

The old timers still prefer Pro Stock but its boring and all the same cars , basically.
Pro Mod , on the other hand , has much greater spectator appeal as well as participation from racers. Never mind VARIETY.
As far as I'm concerned , Pro Stock either needs a complete over haul or should just die........no one except the racers and old timers really care about PS any more. After the early nineties it became too predictable anyway.
In other words , make PS small blocks and fuel injection / turbos , but the cry babies that participate would never embrace that concept.

Re: Pro Mod or Pro Stock?
 

Anybody that thinks that Pro Mod is not a performance based class has obviously never raced it. Thinking that all you have to do is just "turn up the boost" to go quicker is ridiculous. A power adder engine is no different from a naturally aspirated engine, in respect to the fact the whole package has to be worked on to make the most of it.
There is only so much "boost' available from any given power adder. and all of the max effort Pro Mods that show up at a NHRA race have long passed the performance level that it alone provides. Once that threshold has been reached, extra power has to be found in the details, (heads, cam, stroke/bore ratios, etc) exactly like a naturally aspirated engine. And then, they are faced with the daunting task of getting all of the power to hook.
I've spent a lot of time with Pro Mods in the past. As a spectator and fan, I would much rather watch them than Pro Stock. As a racer, I would still rather go with Pro Mod. Quicker is ALWAYS better, lol.

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Pro Stock died years ago and became carbed Funnycar.

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There's other classes than S and SS?? Who knew?



Make the new cars P/S and get rid of pro mod/top oilers/frumpy cars/etc

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Between the two I prefer Pro Mod for the following reasons

Unique power trains. NHRA has done a really good job balancing out different combos. Pro Stock has become cookie cutter powerplants that don't resemble anything ever built but any of the factories.

Big fields - you actually have to qualify BUT the competition is close enough that you can not qualify and then win the next like Bill Glidden did this year.
Also the limited schedule and costs associated with the cars help get more Pro Mod participation. The fact that other sanctioning bodies have similar classes helps also. If you don't think Pro Stock has too many races last year Enders took a couple off and still won the championship. Also there are a handful of races that don't get all 16. Pro Mod's schedule looks better to me. And I have heard pro Stock teams are spending upwards of $200k annually in valve springs, $8k for a set of carbs, etc. Hard to bring new people in if that's the cost of being in the running.

Fans - I think Pro Mod draws a younger fanbase. I don't think most kids that are getting into cars are looking at building big block carburated cars and marveling at how they work. EFI, Turbos, nitrous, etc. are relevent to street performance. Search Camaro Supercharger kit and half a dozen pop up in the ads.

Explosiveness. Pro mod has a little bit of that unpredictabilty to it.

This is not to say that I don't respect Pro Stock but if I could only watch one, it would be Pro Mod.

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Pro Stock all day! I admire Naturally Aspirated engines more. There's just something special about Pro Stock to me. I know and understand Pro Mod racing but it doesn't have the same luster. That said, I agree that fans and the next generations of racers prefer Pro Mod. They care much more about going fast in anyway possible vs caring about the way in which they go fast. Which is why the expense of class racing makes no sense to them. They would much rather spend 50k to go 7s than spend 50k and be slower in a comp or super stock class.

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The stands would be empty.

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Factory Stock is far more interesting than Pro Stock and in my humble opinion could be the salvation of the troubled NHRA.

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Too slow, and don't make enough noise for the spectators. And actually get down the track too often. Same as Pro Stock n