With PINKS ALL OUT gone...how about this!

[Wade Mahaffey]

I GOT IT.....A company provides/rents spec sealed engines (maybe 8,16,32,48) and they transport them to different tracks. Different teams arrive with no engines in the cars, but the cars (different style cars for each different show ie Stocker, round tube, back half etc ) are completely ready other than the engine. The cars are weight adjusted with ballast to become equal. With a max/spec tire size and gear ratio. To quailify to be a contestant would have to be determined by some means. You bring your own carb that has to pass tech inspection, fuel check and scale each run. The TV show starts at first round, the engine installation is done the previous day and then tech. Pull a pill to determine the engine you get. Heads-up, No breakout, No Cheating, No teardown, Just tune it and drive it! It's still, how good is your car, your driving, and your tuning? When you're done, take the engine out and it goes back on the truck. The engines would go thru a maintenance and dyno scheduled rotation to determine equality. This is just the concept, general rules would need to be adopted. You could even have a team Ford, Chevy, and Mopar. Put a random onsite engine (from each F,C,M provider/renter) from Ford, Chevy, Mopar on an onsite dyno to determine any difference in horsepower (which should be minimal). The random test engines would all use the same carb during the dyno onsite test. Then make the small ballast adjustment to the other teams in order compensate. One time run for quailified order. First round parings are random with no like brands racing each other. Second round parings are from quailified order.

LET'S RACE

Wade Mahaffey

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Wade Mahaffey

I GOT IT.....A company provides/rents spec sealed engines (maybe 8,16,32,48) and they transport them to different tracks. Different teams arrive with no engines in the cars, but the cars (different style cars for each different show ie Stocker, round tube, back half etc ) are completely ready other than the engine. The cars are weight adjusted with ballast to become equal. With a max/spec tire size and gear ratio. To quailify to be a contestant would have to be determined by some means. You bring your own carb that has to pass tech inspection, fuel check and scale each run. The TV show starts at first round, the engine installation is done the previous day and then tech. Pull a pill to determine the engine you get. Heads-up, No breakout, No Cheating, No teardown, Just tune it and drive it! It's still, how good is your car, your driving, and your tuning? When you're done, take the engine out and it goes back on the truck. The engines would go thru a maintenance and dyno scheduled rotation to determine equality. This is just the concept, general rules would need to be adopted. You could even have a team Ford, Chevy, and Mopar. Put a random onsite engine (from each F,C,M provider/renter) from Ford, Chevy, Mopar on an onsite dyno to determine any difference in horsepower (which should be minimal). The random test engines would all use the same carb during the dyno onsite test. Then make the small ballast adjustment to the other teams in order compensate. One time run for quailified order. First round parings are random with no like brands racing each other. Second round parings are from quailified order.

LET'S RACE

Wade Mahaffey

Too costly for the promoter,too complicared to figure out weights-wheelbases-transmissions-gear ratios-body styles-etc.What about AMCs,Olds,Buicks,FWD cars,and
probably a dozen other things someone else can add?
Who has the cash to front something chancey like this in the economic world we're in now?

[Ed Wright]

Wade, you smoking that stuff again?

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Wade, you smoking that stuff again?

I think its just to cold for Wade to work out in his shop.....LOL.

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

Wade, you smoking that stuff again?

survey says....................YEP

[Wade Mahaffey]

The key is k.i.s.s. keep. it. simple. stupid. as Johnny D. would say. AMC runs with mopar, Olds/Buick runs with Chevy kinda like SS/GT. Crate engine companys like Edelbrock, Patriot, GM Performance, Blueprint, Roush, Indy etc could be the engine suppliers. They could rent the engines and make money. If a guy will spend $500 to go to a National event he most likely would spend $500 to be on TV, him and his buddies would split the money anyway. The engine companies would get the exposure and Sell,Sell, Sell on Monday. It would be the big three again...sorta like the old days. You figure half of the rental engines would only get two runs on them, then go to the next race. If they rented them for $400 thats $200 a lap for half of them (1 time run, 1st rd loss). They probably only cost the builder $5000. Aside from loosing first round all the time, would'nt you like to pay for your motor in the first 25 laps. I'm talking some basic engines that could run 10 seconds. No wheelbase, trans gears etc. No electronics (transbrakes, timers, delays, T-Stops etc). All of the stuff that makes racing cost so much is gone. The folks that run Pinks All Out, can afford to run this too. They don't need a 25K stocker engine, to have a fighting chance. If the fans came to watch Pinks.....They'll come to see this. it's the same people plus more sponsers and built up big three rivalry...AND BETTER HEADS-UP RACING.

P.S. Tell SPEED to give me a call

Wade Mahaffey

[Wade Mahaffey]

Ex-Tech wins!

[Alan Roehrich]

Please read the precaution label and the MSDS on whatever chemical it is you're using in a confined space with inadequate ventilation.

[Ed Wright]

Originally Posted by alan roehrich

please read the precaution label and the msds on whatever chemical it is you're using in a confined space with inadequate ventilation.

lol!

[Wade Mahaffey]

Ed, I think Alan is right. I did look up at the flue pipe on the wood stove and the damper was closed. I think I caught the vapors. Or it could have been TIG welding in poorly ventilated areas, Argon displaces oxygen.....but !'m alRitte mow

Wade Mahaffey