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