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Geez some of you guys are real jerks. Why would I want to race with you?
I am on the list for a 2010 DP and have been reading these forums to educate myself and learn what kind of men I would be racing with. I've been a Mopar man since high school 20 years ago. I'm not too impressed with some of you so far. Being upset about HP is one thing, but personal attacks against DP and CJ owners/ drivers is a whole 'nother ball game. I thought you guys wanted new blood in your sport? Some of you don't act that way. If this is the kind of reception I can expect every weekend, I'll go back to road racing where competitors are actually willing to help each other out. |
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ygbsm,
Just because you see a lot of grumbling here on this board doesn't mean that it's that way at the races. I've stock car raced, road raced and drag raced and I find more people willing to help and more friends in drag racing than I ever did in the other types of racing. Look at the qualifying sheets at most races and then look who post here. The forum doesn't have a lot of the regular racers posting here. To be honest with you I've been working for several years on getting my Malibu compettitve for Stock Eliminator but haven't enetered a race yet(although I should later this year) and it's not a combo I would have searched and chosen but it was my son's first car we started building and after his death it just seemed like the thing to do. The 305 combo has been worked to death and it will fast(or I won't race it) but I like the newer FI cars and combos and my other stocker will probably be much faster(index wise) for far less money. It's still fun and a bigger challenge than bracket racing(although you can still hone your driving skills at it with a stocker) and to me more fun than throttle stop racing. Road racing and stock car racing are by far more fun to drive(to me) but it is so much easier to drag race with a 1 man crew. Build your car and have fun racing, take all this with a grain of salt. Things have a way of working out in the end. |
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All these guys want is a FAIR shake in the HP ratings dept. and NHRA didnt give it to them and this forum is about the only place that they can piss and moan about the problem other than writing a zillion letters to NHRA that no one reads or couldnt care less about that get trash canned anyway. |
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WRONG: If Shaw goes -1.75 under, it's underrated and needs refactored. WRONG: The DP and CJ cars are not only underrated, but also not street legal cars that have no business in Stock. I think they'd be fine in Super Stock, just like the limited production Hemis. My crate motor car is more of a Stocker than a DP or CJ car. Are they awesome cars? Oh, absolutely! I love both of them -- just not in Stock, and not at the purposefully low HP factors. WRONG: The fuel injected LS-1/LT-1's were underrated when they came out, as were the Mopar trucks, paper cars, ad infinitum. WRONG: cars with transmissions they didn't come with, Corvette rear suspensions, 292 truck carbs, camshaft specs on some 4cyl Mopars, and yes, even hoodscoops on Crate Motor Dusters. So yeah, I got a problem with it. This is kinda like the political parties each pointing fingers at the other saying, "But they're wrong TOO!" What the h*ll good is that? Wrong is wrong, period, and it's ALL a bunch of BS, and everybody knows it. It's just that now, the horse has been let out of the barn for so long that nobody cares to try to fix it, and now its everybody looking out for their own agenda instead of the big picture and what's right. And oh, BTW, I would have no problem if IHRA said that crate motor cars don't belong in Stock, and put them in Super Stock. |
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