[GTX JOHN]

This change is really very much to our Benefit......
We run two 71 340 Demons with Iron heads and
intakes and our 1.0 under stuff might have
a better chance now that our competition that
ran 1.5 under is slightly hampered.

When the Alum. heads became legal a few years back......I
call the gentleman who did my heads for 20 years and talked
to him about a couple sets. he quoted me around $12,000 to
$13,000 for each set.....Way beyond our budget (I have children and
grand children that like to eat every day)! Currently we race in class the Alum. heads 340 and they
are factored a D*mn 15 to 20 Horsepower LESS in the same engines and
bodies.

That being said......A lot of us have struggled
to afford to run Stock with all the changing
rules.

If NHRA start changing a lot of different rules at
this point in time......We will have to walk away
and stop after racing stock for after over 50 years!

Add some more changes and confusion and the resulting
uncertainty will probably make others walk away as well.
Not everyone has the funds to buy a bunch of new pieces
to replace the thing that have changed over last 30 years!

The famed Bobby Warren in the 70s had this on the back of his Nova:

"A few men have become reasonably well off thru Drag Racing......
Of course they were Millionaires before they started"

That holds much more true now 40 years later!



John Irving E/SA