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Originally Posted by Ed Wright
Why?
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I guess I should of worded it differently. Or maybe explained a bit more, I just didn't want to write a novel….
Due to some mid season changes last year, that needed to be made, my car is no longer a super stock car, it's a comp car. So "national events" aren't as appealing to me anymore due to the fact that there is no "class" races in comp. So I probably not going to be traveling 1000 miles to run a national event, especially when I have Joliet and Norwalk close to home. Plus I'm about 300lbs over minimum for comp and the index is 7.62.
My car isn't a comp car at all, it's just a simple back half car. No more advanced than your normal Superstocker. Stock front suspension, stock doors, glass, power windows, hardtop, sheet metal, etc. No lightweight parts at all.
All I needed to stay in SS/DX was a better fuel but NHRA wouldn't budge on that, I tried for a season and a half. Their fuel list is dated, and they don't have a fuel better than C16 available on the list for my type of car. And that's just not going to cut it when you are making 9+hp per CI. VP even said that they didn't know of ANYONE making that kind of HP per CI on that fuel, a fuel that is older than my car…haha. When they lowered my index to 8.95 we were hurting pistons about every 2-3 events trying to run 1 under. It just wasn't worth it in my eyes to keep doing this so we made some changes. One of which was to switch to methanol. A fuel that is allowed in some of the modified super stock classes already. They have a 4 cylinder turbo class with a 8.95 index, but don't allow a fuel necessary to really compete with that index. It just doesn't make sense. It's frustrating racing a car that is years ahead of the rulebook.
A good portion of the tech guys at NHRA understand this, unfortunately the decision makers kept shooting it down using my "on track performance" as an excuse not to allow it. Like my "on track performance" was so stellar short of a few hero runs.