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Has anyone raced with the NMCA that has an IHRA / NHRA stocker or super stocker? How well were you treated?

Thanks, Larry

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Larry, I have raced NSS with these guys for years. They have always been professionally run events. Ill be in Bowling Green this weekend with 2 cars. Doug Duell

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Come on out you will have a great time. We appreciate all of the racers that come out and support the series.

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I looked into running NMCA ...In your rules Starting line rev limiters prohibited. NO THANKS i'll go blow my sh!t up somewhere else...Im mean really wtf kinda rules is that ..Leave on the highside of a stick you may understand if you every drove one...

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What did the stick racers (Ronnie Sox, Dyno Don, Strickler, etc. do) before all that electronic crap was ever invented?

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and every modified racer in the world from the 70s

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Why dont you tell me XTECHMAn you seem to be the expert !?!?!

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They looked at the tach and used the right foot as a control.

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Didn't use anything but a tach keep eye on it on statring line left at 9500 to 9800 small block Ford 10.5 x 29.5 tires 2.80 low gear 6.00 rear end shift at 9200.

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Go to a NMRA event 90% of our heads-up racers are stick and do not use a 2-step. Sorry you feel that way. I'm a stick racer myself and do not use a 2-step. Sorry we can't make everyone happy but we try.

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Larry, give them a try, you may never race NHRA again.

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The rules says no starting line rev limiter ,I doesnt say two step..Elaborate please .Are u saying you have no rev limiter???Sticks leaving off Imagination ?? It looks like a lot of fun.Thanks in Advance!1

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[QUOTE=Jeff Swanson;117539]Larry, give them a try, you may never race NHRA again.[/Q

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Don't forget , it was a 5 amber tree back then. You had a little more time to get the RPM steady.
If you can come out, pedal on the mat ,it shouldn't matter, though.

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Thats how its done.....I raced nothing but 4 speeds in the 60's and 70's (except for one 65 426 Street Wedge Plymouth) WITHOUT electronic aids. The last was a SS/I STICK (Chrysler A-833 trans) 68 Camaro until 78. Then I went to a glide (no trans brake or 2-step) to keep the 12 bolt alive a little longer. We were not allowed Danas and 9" fords in a Chevy back then.

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Thanks for the advice . I see why you are driving a automatic .Bunch of Wise Asses

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I raced stick in the "early" years and this may be hard to believe by some but after awhile you ALMOST didn't need the tach as you could tell by the sound of the motor where your RPM was at. Just a quick glance at the tach and then concentrate on leaving on the fourth bulb! (showing my age....lol)
Phil Daly

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LOL.........My kind of racer.

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If you notice its just the younger generation that really dont know. Its what us older guys got used to doing. Drag racing has evolved to where some couldnt race with out all the "bells and whistles such as 2- steps, air or elec. shifters, slider clutches and we even had to really use the clutch to shift gears when the pointy needle was on the right number (or by ear) instead of a shift light.....imagine that !

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I drove a stick car nearly 30 years ago, and last year I drove one again. I've driven them both ways, it can be done, and it can be done fairly easily. The two step doesn't make it possible, it just makes it considerably easier. Lee Shepherd hated a two step, he said the weird noise wrecked his concentration.

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Lots Of Love Here

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Terry,

I remember when "trick", was a Mr. Gasket in-line shifter. That was the neatest thing I ever put in my Mustang. In the 70's. a rev limiter, wasn't that keeping the rods in the motor! Which I failed at, a couple times. With all the gadgetry today, driving a car by the seat of the pants is a lost art. There was a real feeling, a stiff clutch, slamming against a 50 lb flywheel at 7000+ rpm. Planting a set of 10.5 x 29.5 M & H Racemasters on old heavy Cragar SS wheels. Hoping you don't leave something setting on the starting line, like your tailshaft, driveshaft, pinion gear or an axle, LOL! Oh, yes, those were the days.

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I used to race a drag bike with no tach or rev limiters on it at all. You're correct, after a short time you don't even look at the tach anymore anyway.

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Amen X-TECH MAN !!!

Phil

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Hey, don't forget Butch Leal....no tach....EVER!! His shift points were made with the two holes on the sides of his head:D!!

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Tommy don't be too quick to Dis these old timers, in case you haven't checked we are already getting old enough to be the "new" old timers. LOL Some of these guys broke more parts than you could count. It scares the poop out of me when I race street car stickshifts. If it wasn't for your Dad, probably would be a lot less of us racing stickshifts.
Where you been hanging out? Thinking of dragging the Chevelle out again? I bet there are a couple of Div. 3 Moostangs that would be a heck of a match up with you. Shoot me an e mail let me know what you are up to. jimschaechter@earthlink.net

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Larry,
I used to run NMCA for points from 1997-2000. I have never run anthing like it since, I very much miss it. I went back to one race a few years back in Columbus. They still had a very professionally run race. I just can't run their schedule because large area that it covers.
Be sure to check their rules on contingency decal placement. I believe that they will only pay if you run the decals on the back windows.
I would recommend them to anyone.


Jeff Day
#3731

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yea, thats it, lets all go back to the dark ages of drag racing. While we are at it, lets take out the tachs, line locks, inline shifters, ect.

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Heck, I drove a stick, SS/K 283 in the 70's and 80's, without any electronics, just an Accel dual point distibuter, small gold coil, rapping near 10 grand on the old Moroso cable drive tach [which I still have,on my trophy shelf], won 2 Mile-high nationals, all with a total of about 5 grand in an old Chevy II sedan that I bought for 25 bucks. On top of that I only popped 3 engines in 20 years of racing small block stick cars. Of course at 70 years young, it's like the tee shirt my son got for me, that says "The older I get, the faster I was". Keep up all the good talk on this web site it's great entertainment for this old drag racer.
Eddie Rezac

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Im ready if you are but it wont happen. Pandoras box has already been opened.

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Larry, the stickers do have to be in certain area for contengencie( ?) money. Have been going to several of their races for the past few years and they run as good a show as you would ever want. they have several class' that your hot rod could fit in. So check it out, however this weekend in Bowling Green is setting up to be a wash out based on the coming weather.

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nah, just back to the golden age, when PEOPLE drove the cars. I hope to try the NCMA soon.

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Thanks everyone for the input if I can get my new rear end ratio in I will be there. Its only 145 miles, so long for now, got to go back to work.

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Not for someone with a closed mind and no manners!

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In the '60's and through the '70's I raced 4 speed Mopars with a slick shifted 883 with no electronics and never broke anything except rearends (8 3/4's) It was the best racing I have ever done.

I've raced with the NMCA guy's and what a great bunch. The racing is fun the people are great and there is good competition.

Doug's father, Dave, talked me into it and I wish I could thank him!

You'll have a good time, larry!

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NICE are u so sweet ..

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Eddie Rezac.... wow....

If not for you, and all your records in National Dragster, I'd never have known where WAHOO, NEBRASKA was!!! Seemed like you always held the record in whatever class you ran.... impressive!!!

It's great to see you on the board; now I'm not the oldest guy here (70 last Dec. 20.)

Don't be a stranger; you have a WEALTH of stories... I'm sure. I lived in Des Moines from '64 to '80, so I saw you race a lot...

Anyway, welcome to this board; it's a world apart... lol!

Bill

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I dont know if i will drag out the Chevelle this year or not..I see theres a few mustangs out there in your division.I'll drop ya a line soon you can call me netime at the shop too :) I have one mustang in mind but that would take a 327 :P

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It sounds like a good time, but it is just a bracket race. Why drive hunderes of miles to go to a bracket race when there are local tracks for footbrake and no electronic racing , and S/SS races where we can run'em like we do in the NHRA and IHRA. What is different about this racing than everything else? Racing against old cars with 500 inch engines and dual quads? Whats makes it better? Can anyone explain this to me?

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Grabs some popcorn :)