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Originally Posted by Dwight Southerland
I'm surprised that no one has meentioned grinding the rocker arm tip. . .
If roller rockers are accepted next year, this discussion expands arithmetically.
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Dwight
Grinding a rocker tip has been done several times by such people as Smokey. And yes I have been following the thread on roller rockers. I know this may be the easiest and cheapest way out for many racers BUT I have a big big problem with this. I get upset when I hear people talk about the amount of technology and development that has been put into Pro Stock, Top Fuel and all our pro classes. But do you know what I feel is the most technological advanced class in racing today. NASCAR was included in that short list but no longer. Stock Eliminator is the most advanced. Think about how many people and for how many years have racers and engine builders been tweaking on stock parts to make things more frictionless , more advanced than they were ever intended to be. Sure the cost went with that but this is what has made the class what it is today. Look at how much science has just been discussed on rocker arms here on this forum and now we want to take that advancement all away and turn it over to vendors and let them just build us a set of roller rockers. Look at how many parts we have scienced out and now turned over to vendors to capitalized on. Let NHRA and NASCAR leave us alone and we will find a way to make it better. It is no longer race on Sunday and sale on Monday. Every month stock eliminator gets closer to being a Super Stock. Leave the parts alone and stop the cheating. Let us as racers tweak and build the best we can. Let us accel in developing our rides and our power plants and receive the fruits of our labor and OUR ingenuity not some damn vendor that wants to do nothing but make money off us. If we break it enough, we WILL make it better. Let US play in our sport and be the best not some vendor for hire. If we can make our one part better and we are faster, great that is what makes our labor of sweat and tears worth that extra .1 on Sunday and then I go home and try to beat your .1 for the next Sunday. Let us use OUR brains not them.
Damn got on a rampage already this early. Woman come git me off here whilst I am aspoutin
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