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Does anybody really think NHRA ever cared? I've been doing this for a long, long time (back to the days when ported heads were illegal in Super Stock) and I can tell you that NHRA has never been about actually running a sanctioning body. When cylinder head cheating became so obvious and widespread that Ray Charles could spot it, what did the "sanctioning body" do to the cheaters? Nothing. They simply made the cheating legal. And a few bucks-down, "do it yourself" guys quit, because they couldn't afford a $3500 set of heads and a manifold. And that endless, cheating-made-legal progression has taken Super Stock from a class for clever, do-it-yourself racers, who used innovation and hard work (instead of wheelbarrow loads of money) to go fast, to a continually shrinking class of 1975 Pro Stock cars. Every time NHRA had an opportunity to protect the little guy racer by throwing cheating bums out for life, they just stood there, looking at their shoes. Why? because all they ever really wanted was the money, with no hassles.