[Bruce Noland]

Funny how some of these threads keep on chugging along.

I was a bit surprised yesterday when Len jumped in on one of his posts and attemped to put an end to the discussion about the ahfs. He has been trying to portray me as a guy who wasn't paying attention to the ahfs notices and got pissed when I got HP. Well, I very rarely take on a selfish cause and generally pick causes that affect the most people; like the ahfs. He is wrong on that point.

But I thought, who the hell does this guy think he is? The ahfs is a moot point my ***. This site doesn't belong to him or nhra. So I decided to do a little checking on the information that he has been attempting to pass off here and found a couple of interesting unannounced/unpublished changes to the ahfs and that the two notices that he told us about were really about the same subject and only one was a call for racer feedback. hmm...

So I spent the whole afternoon and evening working through 83 months of nhra archives and found just that one request for feedback and it is over 4 years old while, at the same time, the ahfs was taking on a few unannounced nips and tucks.

Len describes the changes to the ahfs as minor and that the basic format has not changed. Well the reality is that the original ahfs resembles an Impala while the current ahfs resembles a Humvee. Apparently there is no such thing as a minor change to the ahfs.

I'm just an old guy from Virginia working my way through the archives and I may have missed something. I invite any of you to double check the archives to verify my results. Also Len has the whole nhra computer thing going on and he may find something that I haven't and I invite him to provide any additional information that he may have.

Also, I found the following paragraph from the original ahfs to be very revealing.

"This has been a project that will prove well worth the effort," said Len Imbrogno, director of sportsman racing and member tracks. "Once everyone gets comfortable with how the
data is analyzed and automatic changes are calculated, the racers will pretty much control their own destiny in terms of horsepower and index changes."

I will post more on this subject tomorrow. My eyes are a little bleary after looking at a computer screen for eight hours.