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Originally Posted by Frank Castros
The Rule Book "enhancements" have enabled this crap. The old guard of the NHRA Rule Book (i.e; Farmer, Greg X and the like) paved a better way of enforcing the rules by employing good qualified people with the dedication to the book.
A great Division Director, as a leader must see rules integrity as the cornerstone, not as an Event Marketing Manager.
Especially D1. Of all places.
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Frank for better or worse the good old days of Stock and Super/Stock are long gone. Those years you talk about were as far as I'm concerned the Golden Years of Stock and Super/Stock. No AHFS and racers that ran their cars every run almost as fast as they could get it to go. I don't remember seeing anyone lifting at the 1000 ft mark to protect their combo. I'm sure a few did but it wasn't the norm.
The heads I have on my car were bought from a GM dealer and have a GM part number on them. I'm not sure if Edelbrock bought the rights to the part numbers or GM subcontracted them out for them to make. But the heads and intake are listed in a GM parts book.
The 396/375 hp combo is not the only one that don't have the original parts that were made back in the 60's. At this point in the life of Stock and Super/Stock there is no going back. I still look at some of the newer cars that race Stock and have a parachute on the back and shake my head. I can't imagine spending almost 100 grand on a newer car from the factory and then have to spend up to 50 grand or more to make it one of the front runners in the class. I laugh when I here someone say they don't want the index's lowered to not discourage any new people trying out Stock. Most of the new people that I have seen start racing Stock in the last few years end up in one of the newer cars. Or in an older car that is already proven. I don't like a lot of the changes but here is where we are. BP