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I just got off the phone with a good friend who is at the PRI show and had talked to Bruce Bachelder about the new cars running in the traditional stock classes. Bruce told my friend that the new mustangs and challengers would remain in the regular stock classes and that the new AHFS would take care of any problems they caused.

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Hi, Greg. I'm sure the ahfs will take care of the problem of the old racers not showing up. Keep the faith........Merry Christmas. Arnold

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It's going to take some ingenious methods of adding weight to make the new and eventual 6000 pound stockers continue to look like cars rather than tractor pullers.

Jerry

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Beam me up scotty, no intellegent life in Glendora

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NHRA gave no indication they were going to anything else but leave them in Stock.

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Then they are all Idiots.......IHRA looks better all the time. At Least they have tried to put the new cars away from old tech cars in an effort to let everyone race.

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As I mentioned on another post......Maybe its time for another venue to race in?????

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I sure we are going to see a 6# stock class soon.
Question for Jeff Teuton; will there be an SFI chassis option for the 2012 V10’s? LOL

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Looks like we'll be staying close to home again this year.

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Bill;
I believe you are correct, maybe even 5.5 lb. I was talking to Bruce about this a while back and couldn't get a real answer but if NHRA intends to put the HP factors where they belong with the new factory race cars they will need to reconfigure the weight breaks or these cars will cycle out of the guide; probably not acceptable to Ford or Chrysler. I am convinced that there will be no FX class so this is the only solution IF (big if) the HP gets corrected. Time will tell.

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That's a 1 of 1 AMC SCAMbler.:>):>):>)
Seriously I just looked in a 2008 rule book.
Quote: Hood openings and/or hood scoops other than OEM prohibited.That's kind of a gray area as the scoop was only available on the SC/Rambler.I would think it would slow the car down a tad being non functional.

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How about NHRA lowering the hp on the older cars?

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Ed, know you're having to keep pace with Jeff Lee and Mike Beard on quantity of posts but in your haste you posted to the wrong thread, try this one LOL

http://classracer.com/classforum/showthread.php?t=30229

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Jim, go easy on him. That Ed is old too. :D

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Be kind he is off his meds again...............................lol

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Allright then,let's take 80 HP off it.

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How about submitting a reasonable HP on these new cars, and leaving the old cars
alone, we have enough enhancements that come with a penalty.

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I think there is a 25lb weight hit, a 5% horsepower adjustment, and a .010 index adjustment just because......Age aint got nothing to do with it :) If it was up to me, I'd say any Teuton built engines would get a 1 second hit, just because my xhit is slower :)

See ya'll in 2011

^^just kdding

I hope to be able to mix it up with you guys in a couple of races next year...