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Originally Posted by Joseph Teuton
Face the fact that you are stuck in the pass.....
Everyone has the right to drive whatever they want. Y'all have chosen the car you drive and have chose the cars we wish. Some have street cars that were turned into race cars by the owner because they thought they would have an advantage with that car. We have chose race cars that were built to be race cars sorry that we decided to drive these cars and not the OLD cars.
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"New", "advanced", "built to be race cars" means absolutely nothing. Nobody cares.
The ONLY issue anybody has is the bogus low hp factors MOPAR, FORD & GM submitted and NHRA accepted. Nobody blames a guy from starting with one of those under factored new cars. Ditto the new CJs and COPOs. It is annoying to hear guys that want to tell you how their performance is just because they worked on it hard. Most will admit why they bought one, and why they are that fast now. Many had fast older cars, sharp racers. They are just faster now. Some just got fast when they bought a new one. Nothing wrong with that, just be honest about it.
You would have to be some special kind of stupid to start a new build on an old car the way things are now. An NHRA official & friend of mine told me Chrysler reps told them "We aren't coming back without an advantage." Ditto Ford & GM, I'm sure. As long as they sponsor races, I doubt the NHRA brass cares.
A gentleman I know, that works in a race engine shop that has built both fast LT1s like mine, and a couple of fast 360" SS DPs. He would likely lose his job if I mentioned his name, or the shop. He tells me their 360" DP SS engines never make less than 75 more hp that the LT1s, and they have seen more. They slow them down with restrictor plates, some just disconnect 2 barrels. I would have to spot one of those things 40lbs. At the time I didn't ask him about the Hemi, and after he reads this, he may not speak to me again anyway. :-(
A lot of people know what will happen if I hit the Powerball.. LOL