[bill dedman]

RE: R & D costs on F.I. systems.... apples/oranges....

For one thing, all drag racers need is "an on/off switch" whereas, cars that must turn corners have throttle sensitivity issues; they must perform at part throttle in such a way that the driver can dictate corner-negotiating behavior that will allow varying degrees of oversteering the car with power. Hanging the tail out with power, so-to-speak.

Drag racers just need to stab it and steer it; keep it in the groove with the throttle wide open continuously. That means that a fuel injection system only has to be engineered to deliver max power at full throttle during the run.... a whole lot less complicated deal than trying to engineer part-throttle driveability into the system.

Bottom line? A lot less expensive R & D...

F.A.S.T. fuel injection systems, and I'm sure several others, have systems that could be easily adapted to Pro Stock motors without breaking the bank. As long as NHRA is going to dictate what carburetor with a specified throttle bore opening that can be legally used (as they have, for many years), why couldn't they dictate a spec. fuel injection system, which would preclude runaway R & D costs?

If they said everyone has to run a F.A.S.T. FI system as it comes from that company, what's the reason that costs would become prohibitive?


Sure, it's a spec, cookie-cutter deal, but no more so than what they have now. Holley Dominators are Holley Dominators... Last time I checked, they all looked pretty much the same....

It's do-able.... but NHRA officials who make policy probably own a bunch of Holley stock.... Now, if we could just get them to buy some stock in a F.I. comany....