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Originally Posted by Jeff Lee
I'd ay you were looking for an excuse. 350 HP is an issue? On an engine that is better than the street 420 HP 302? Really?
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Come on now Jeff. We don't want NHRA to factor our cars off of the hp that they actually make now do we? At the time I was fully excepting NHRA to put all these cars in their own FX classes and at that rating it would not be competitive in my opinion versus the other factory racers. Now I've been over here in Afghanistan for the past 22 months and I've not been able to put my hands on a real 5.0 so the only thing I know about them is what I can read on the internet. Sorry but that rating was not attractive to me with no experience with them what so ever and to be honest. When I put the order in I was a little disappointed that I wasn't giving the old girl a shot. So maybe I was looking for an excuse. But lets look at this combo in a little more detail.
They are at a factory 8.62 weight break (natural "B" car) at 350hp with a shipping weight of 3017. The addition of 5hp makes them a natural A car. Its going to get hit 5hp sooner or later, that's a given. From what I see this year they are middle of the pack in "C" at best. But say somebody runs 1.2 under with one and now its an "A" car. There is no way that car is competitive in A against the 427- 428CJ's, V10 - 6.1DP's and now the COPO's. Not to mention all the other good "real" stockers out there. So that pretty much paints you into a corner and running the car only in "B" to stay away from the combos I just mentioned. Another way of looking at them is to compare them to their little brother the 4.6 or 281 CJ that was factory rated at 235hp. You add 21 cubes to the 4.6 for a grand total of 115 hp. LOL Come on now I know the 5.0 are supposed to be at another level but 115 hp worth? That's 977# (115hp x 8.5) they can't be that much better to carry an additional 1,000#. Now I'm looking at the N/A version only as I don't have any interest in running the SC combo. But it looks like Holbrock has that combo figured out. I could be wrong maybe these things are going to be competitive I just don't see it. In my opinion this is the least attractive CJ to date. But if you think they are that good I wont stop you from building one LOL just to prove me wrong.
