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NBD MGT · 12-04-2012, 09:50 PM

I looked at some 2012 NHRA results on Drag Race Central and it seems like the classes below CC/S are dominated by older cars in qualifying and eliminations.

Otherwise there is a mixed bag of old & new in the top-10 for overall qualifying and although a few events showed some newer cars in the top 3 in some cases newer cars were well below the top 20.

Is it safe to say that 100% of the time no older cars can possibly run .9 to 1.1 under index in any of the classes below CC/S? That would have to be the case if everyone with a 2007 and older car should give up like some are saying.

I still don't get how the real complaint is new cars with bogus HP ratings when a LOT of the muscle car era engines that nobody complains about were also underrated.

Examples: 427/425. 427/435, and 454/450 Chevys or 427/425 Thunderbolts and 428/335 Cobra Jets.

For sure the bigger & badder Chevy's were underrated by 100 or more HP and so was the 1964 Thunderbolt.

One thing I'd bet on is the newer factory cars will never go 2 to 4 seconds faster than they did when they were new like the older cars do. I'd also bet the newer car engines won't gain as much HP after tweaking as some of the older combinations do.

12-04-2012, 09:50 PM	#143
NBD MGT Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 8 Likes: 0 Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: GM Releases 2013 bogus HP ratings at PRI show I looked at some 2012 NHRA results on Drag Race Central and it seems like the classes below CC/S are dominated by older cars in qualifying and eliminations. Otherwise there is a mixed bag of old & new in the top-10 for overall qualifying and although a few events showed some newer cars in the top 3 in some cases newer cars were well below the top 20. Is it safe to say that 100% of the time no older cars can possibly run .9 to 1.1 under index in any of the classes below CC/S? That would have to be the case if everyone with a 2007 and older car should give up like some are saying. I still don't get how the real complaint is new cars with bogus HP ratings when a LOT of the muscle car era engines that nobody complains about were also underrated. Examples: 427/425. 427/435, and 454/450 Chevys or 427/425 Thunderbolts and 428/335 Cobra Jets. For sure the bigger & badder Chevy's were underrated by 100 or more HP and so was the 1964 Thunderbolt. One thing I'd bet on is the newer factory cars will never go 2 to 4 seconds faster than they did when they were new like the older cars do. I'd also bet the newer car engines won't gain as much HP after tweaking as some of the older combinations do.