Bill, I`ve always felt that the forced induction car should be limited to factory boost levels. Like Jeff said (and he used to run a Turbo FWD Stocker), whenever this subject was brought up in the past, it usually ended up with the Turbo FWD crying "No Fair", because turbo`s are inconsistent, or FWD cars don`t have many gear ratios to choose from, or how FWD cars are tricky to hook up, but then they brag about taking a bone stock turbo FWD car and running 1 1/2 seconds under for virtually no expense.Personally, the sealed pre set wastegate on a turbo or blowoff valve on a supercharged engine only seems fair.
Fred, I have heard the stories about NHRA Tech officials riding along with the blown 312 Fords way back when. By the way, Larry Walkers old 57 blown 312 car is still around. It`s been up here in Western Canada since the early 70`s, and is scheduled to come back out this year, after being in storage since about 1975.
One thing that I do find odd about the new Cobra Jet is that according to Georges post, it appears that NHRA knocked 75 HP from the 500 HP rating. That could be interesting! But hasn`t NHRA often "adjusted" factory HP ratings, both up & down? Like I said before, Pomona should be interesting! Seeing Jim Waldo back in a Ford is great, even if it is an automatic (for now!?)
