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Originally Posted by Bryan Worner
Michael, FJ, Ed, Dick, Kevin: answer me this question??? Of the two GT type cars, FWD and RWD, which car has piled up the most Horsepower on engine combinations? Never mind, I'll answer it for you. The FWD conversion cars! Nobody knows this more than me, with my RWD 87 Camaro, that used to run an LT1 when it was at the factory hp of 275 in SS and GT! Now, because of a FWD conversion car, and a FWD conversion car ONLY, it is at 295 in GT! So I get rid of that combo and go to the L98, only to have it increased in HP from 275 to 287, because of a FWD conversion car!!!
No advantage huh???
And Kevin. I see your combo got 5 off for GT! Don't understand how that happened, because all that hp was piled up in a FWD car! I guess now he can go a second under again!
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Bryan, FYI only RWD GT cars will be able to use the 5HP back off the 350/300, which I think is great for the 80’s & 90's F body racers.
I do not disagree with your facts, and I do understand that most of the HP incurred onto combinations have come from FWD GT cars; however I believe the issue still remains with the AHFS system. I wish I knew what equation could be instilled in order to make it more precise; however for the time being I guess this NHRA quick fix will have to suffice.
Bryan in my humble opinion GT is the biggest reason that the SS class is such a s*#tshow to begin with. GT should have never existed and if it was to be conceived, it should have only happened to accommodate FWD cars, due to the lack of manufactured RWD V8 cars in the 2000’s. GT was created to get the newer style cars on the track in the 80’s by NHRA and the racers; however the racers input to NHRA was that the combinations available with the cars in question where sub par performance wise or too hard($$$) to make competitive. Today those 350 & 305 combinations are at the top of the qualifying sheet in SS and GT, and I like seeing that because it reinforces my theory that there should have never been GT, but because racers didn't want to give up there old 350, 327 and 283 combos, NHRA let them have GT. Now we are stuck with an abortion of a class where GT becomes increasingly more advantageous year after year due to body style, configuration, chassis materials, etc...An 80’s F body has a disadvantage to a 2000’s F body just like a 90’s cavalier has a disadvantage to a 2000’s cobalt. The GT class is doomed to be continuously criticized. We run 2 SS cars and if we want to run GT we have to incur aerodynamic disadvantages and HP factors we had little to no input into. My advice, run SS and leave GT for those who can't! Just my 2 cents. Apologizing in advance! Lol