[Dick Butler]

What a complex mess, Class racing has become. Unfortunately everyone is right, as far as they go.
A motor makes the same HP regardless which car, Yes
The body shape can affect the performance Yes
Choices of transmissions available affects some cars more than others Yes PG versus Turbo Vs Stick.
Too many bogus hp motors. TRUE
TOO many new underfactored motors from the factory each year given low hp to make them popular and suddenly kill off the OLD stuff.... TRUE
The indexes are off. Depends on which cars you use as the ideal car for the class performance.

Ideas. AH is stable one car, on combo class, no factoring differences and it works, YES

Should all classes be one car, one carb, one trans variable ? NO the issue is all the above and without a real committe or dictator who cares which cars are bogus no changes will stop the smart people who can afford to change cars from winning by changing cars, motor, trans,. It becomes an expensive proposition as factoring in the inferior methods used so far( mainly do to sensitivity of system being so slow) leaves the fast stuff dominating till the whole field is replaced with the originally bogus car and by that time a new "baby" with bogus hp is allowed to become the killer. etc etc. 400 motor, inj 350,inj305 now fords next?
Starting point should be to ......Recognize it is only a sport run by business men not racers. They officially care about how many people show up and until that number drops the methods will persist. Unfortunately Class racing will be replaced by more Bracket programs... T/S,T/D. Unless the factories and sponsors push for changes we as small people cannot negotiate.