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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich
All the B.S. about the aluminum 9" center section is just more silliness. It's a few pounds of unsprung weight, that allows for that weight to be moved.
It's like aluminum radiators. The weight advantage itself is negligible, at best, and anyone wanting that weight advantage can find it elsewhere.
Anyone notice Pond slowing down when they made him take his out? I'm betting Ken won't slow down, either.
I suppose a racer were to have an aftermarket 9" housing that had 12 bolt Chevy parts in it, THAT would be a valid issue for tech.
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There are a couple of ways to look at what they nhra tech did to Ken.
One was they could have told him to change it when he got home. I believe this would have been the right thing to do.
But they could have let him go through tech, then after qualifying. Tossed him. I've had that done to me. At least Ken had a chance to fix it before the race.
The only thing nhra tech has been successful with is nitpicking. I went through it last year with my front fenders.
What happened to all the hooplah about the runner cc's?