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Casey Miles · 02-15-2010, 03:23 PM

Now that stock isn't truly stock any more, the indexing is for the garbage bin and let's move on to another way of looking at putting everyone at par. Go to pounds per cubic inch would make the field at a even level.

I've been doing this a long time and I'm one of the racers that couldn't run the index in qualifying, I had to step on the car to just get it to go .02 under in 1st round. My looking at is, is that why does my car have to weigh almost 3300 lbs and a car with more cubic inches then my car gets to run either the same weight or less. All of the index stuff and saving your car from getting factored would change if NHRA went to pounds per cubic inch. No more book factoring which every one knows is BS. I'm carring weight from cars that ran in the late 1960's and early 70's. My car is a 1969 Z/28 and is totally different from a 1967 Z/28 except for the emblem in the grill. There are big differences in the front H frame and engines and yet the 69 is rated and classified the same. If my car was factored correctly, it would be 290 HP instead of 309 which got it's factoring from a 1967 Z/28. That's is why I think that the book crap doesn't work! Go to weight to C.I. is my vote! That's when the real fast cars will start showing their muscle when they are carring the corrected weight to their class.

Casey Miles
248H

02-15-2010, 03:23 PM	#6
Casey Miles Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 706 Likes: 128 Liked 508 Times in 92 Posts	Re: Changing the indexes worked Now that stock isn't truly stock any more, the indexing is for the garbage bin and let's move on to another way of looking at putting everyone at par. Go to pounds per cubic inch would make the field at a even level. I've been doing this a long time and I'm one of the racers that couldn't run the index in qualifying, I had to step on the car to just get it to go .02 under in 1st round. My looking at is, is that why does my car have to weigh almost 3300 lbs and a car with more cubic inches then my car gets to run either the same weight or less. All of the index stuff and saving your car from getting factored would change if NHRA went to pounds per cubic inch. No more book factoring which every one knows is BS. I'm carring weight from cars that ran in the late 1960's and early 70's. My car is a 1969 Z/28 and is totally different from a 1967 Z/28 except for the emblem in the grill. There are big differences in the front H frame and engines and yet the 69 is rated and classified the same. If my car was factored correctly, it would be 290 HP instead of 309 which got it's factoring from a 1967 Z/28. That's is why I think that the book crap doesn't work! Go to weight to C.I. is my vote! That's when the real fast cars will start showing their muscle when they are carring the corrected weight to their class. Casey Miles 248H