[art leong]

Originally Posted by gmonde

hey dont feel bad,at the maple grove divisional during tech inspection i had two nhra tech guys under the hood (fingers pointing,arms motioning,gestures going) finaly i said ok whats the problem??? they said you cant run a accumulator in stock !!!!!! note two tech guys,my first thought was they changed the rule yesterday ,so i eased into the issue by responding , yeh its legal unless you guys changed it yesterday?? its in the rule book!!!!,,tech guys response ,,show me ??? ,, response,,i dont have the book on me ,,,he whips one out from his pocket and hands it to me ,,, i thumb to the page and we read it in harmony ,, his response was i didnt know it was allowed in stock ,,but he did swing by the trailer later and apologized and said he was not thinking clearly ,he knew it was legal after the situation accured just had alot going on ,,, but you need to read the book ,be ready to go up againts these guy ,,they are human and the racers know there class ,whats legal and whats not gmonde

Back in the late 70's we had a tech guy paying close attention to the top of our Hemi car's motor. During tech in. we though he was checking the aircleaner bottom.
Later in teardown he asked us to take the aircleaner base off, touched the intake manifold with what looked like a pen, then told us we were disqualified. I said a couple of "what do you mean M F,s"
And he proceeded to tell me we had an aluminum manifold and it was a 1970 car so we were disqualifed
I almost could not believe what I was hearing. Went over to Greg X explained and asked him how he was going to do with one less tech people.
That guy never came near our car again.