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Originally Posted by Salty Dog
I don't think that is called sandbagging. Just change to the C/SA index and see how fast they were. Sandbaggers lift and hide their weight. Keith was honest. He is a heck of a credible drag racer and has nothing to hide.
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That car is as close to the definition of sandbagging as one could get. Heck, it even meets the term if they were using sand instead of steel.
Ed is applying the C/SA index to see how fast they were. If they were running the true weight of B/SA and not lifting then the horsepower figures would have stuck. They either lift or run extra weight to avoid getting the hit. They ran extra weight which is sandbagging.
Our car was there running their spare motor and it ran fantastic. We were within the weight range for C/SA and qualified just fine. The most impressive C/SA car at Vegas was Carson Pedigo's Chevelle. Not the Drag Pak eventhough it was in B/SA, but it ran at a heavy C/SA.
Every time one of the Drag Paks ran you would see people at the starting line shaking their heads in disgust. You should have heard some of the comments when they were pounding on the legit fast cars in the heads up races.
There were guys in the lanes that were talking about the "what ifs" they came up against one in future rounds. None of them felt the need to take their car to the go fast mode. None of them had a favorable comment of the Drag Paks or Cobra Jets as classified.
And none of them post here.
Don