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Originally Posted by junior barns
Bart Kilgaine said:
"If they run any kind of big numbers they are going to get hit with horse power,therefore they end up in Super Stock.There is no higher class in stock ! "
This is true and why these cars will be in AA and A/S classes for quite sometime as the NHRA will not factor them out( in the fore-see'able future)!
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I brought this up about 300 posts ago. ALL they need to drop below 7.5#/hp is 7 horsepower. That’s less than a 1.5% increase. If they go more than 1.15 under which by all the intel they certainly are capable they will be up for review. 1.4 and the Monday morning hit will put them under the 7.5 I have no dog in this fight but from my perspective these cars are really just a short term threat to all the hard work you guys have put into getting you’re A and AA cars into the second under club.
BUT where I could be wrong is if the NHRA decided to hit the index instead of giving them horsepower therefore allowing the cars to stay in stock.
The following is from the AHFS section on the NHRA website;
“Runs of 1.40 or more under the index will be reviewed and adjusted as soon as such runs were made. Runs at divisional events and National Opens are included in the 1.40-second-or-more-under analysis. This is done to better react to any out-of-line indexes or under-horsepowered combinations. Therefore, at all such events, a 3.25 percent horsepower adjustment or index reduction will be initiated immediately. The decision to adjust horsepower or to reduce the index will be at the discretion of the NHRA Tech Department. “
Last year the fastest A car was Dale Howard @ 1.145 under and the fastest AA was Bobby DeArmond at 1.028 under this was in 1800-1900 feet of air. Based on what people have said in this thread about the numbers these Mustangs have run in testing they should be capable of 1.4 under in Pomona.
Maybe they will all sandbag at Pomona and then let it all hang out once they get to an altitude track where they won’t have to worry about the AHFS.
If they do choose to hit the indexes to accommodate these cars it will suck for you guys the class will become the SS/AH of stock.