[bill dedman]

Mark; is the glass half full or half empty? Sounds to me like the indexes are at fault. How can an engine make more horsepower in a wagon than it makes in a light two-door sedan?

It can't.

If there's a problem relative to the index, look at the index, not the horsepower involved; you KNOW the output of the engine doesn't change from chassis-to-chassis. The problem of inappropriate indexes is spread throughout the entire class system. To predicaate a horsepower factoring system that dictates factrored horsepower based in the vehicle the engine it's in makes NO sense to me.

Looks like NHRA needs to adjust the index, if it's wrong (and it sure looks that way.)

The situation you point out clearly illustrates that the indexes in those two classes are badly skewed.... one of them, at least, is too fast, or too slow. They need to fix THAT, not continue this fairytale of engines changing output depending on their 'host vehicle." You KNOW that doesn't really happen.

Looks like we have the tail wagging the dog, here.

As I said, I am not a (class) racer, so maybe I shouldn't even be posting on this; it just seemed that if Bruce was actually going to address the AFHS issue with the Ivory Tower, then this issue could be a part of that, But, since he hasn't replied to my post, perhaps he has no interest in making this a part of his presentation; I can only guess. It could be that he doesn't want to "muddy the water" by presenting too many issues at one time, or perhaps he agrees with you that incorrect indexes can be dealt with by skewing the horsepower numbers in SELECT vehicles, and not applying the factored HP for an engine "across the board."

Maybe he'll let us know how he feels about this, one way or the other.

Again, thanks for your time and input.

Bill