Changing the indexes worked

SS Engine Guy · 02-16-2010, 01:41 AM

Very good points on most of the posts on this thread. I need to clarify my statement that I could care less what the index is. That is really not what I meant to convey after re-reading my post. I would really rather run heads up, first to the finish line, may the best driver/most power win. That is where the index comment came from. I find that interesting/challenging and exciting with-in an EXISTING SET OF RULES to see who can be fast or faster.The rulebook we don't get (unless we pay more money) is not even a good guide line in terms of what can be done performance wise. It has become the norm to find illegal components and/or modifications and just change the rule to allow them. I will agree that with the now allowed modifications the indexes are soft in some cases, both stock and SS. However, I know that there are a bunch of factors that are so soft that you don't even need the basic "good stuff" in order to run a second under much less the reshaped chambers, light weight cranks, trick of the week intakes, etc. I can't help it if by correcting the hp figures causes a car to weigh 4000 or more lbs. I guess a correctly factored combo that has to weigh too much must not be a very good combo in the real world. Not everything that comes out of the "oem" has to be a viable drag racing combo.

I regret that stock and SS racing has become so expensive and uncontrolled. I still, on the other hand, admire the guy who can go .02 under and do a vast majority of the work themselves. What has to stop,in order for things to slow down,is the constant changing of the rules. What we need is to enforce the rules (and make them well known to all). What we also need is across the board factoring corrections. Its not difficult. It will hurt some egos here and there however, you can't blame a racer for picking a combo that is factored more favorably than another. Problem is that there shouldn't be no more than a +/- 5hp margin of error on anything. As people state, this is 2010, getting factors close dosen't need some elaborate calculation that no one, including the people that started it, can explain. The bell curve that Lynn has expained would work. But you don't even need that. Its called common sense. If the factors were in line there would have been no index change. All changing the index did was make it harder to bring combos into line and obscure the obvious.

02-16-2010, 01:41 AM	#19
SS Engine Guy Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: usa Posts: 256 Likes: 1 Liked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Changing the indexes worked Very good points on most of the posts on this thread. I need to clarify my statement that I could care less what the index is. That is really not what I meant to convey after re-reading my post. I would really rather run heads up, first to the finish line, may the best driver/most power win. That is where the index comment came from. I find that interesting/challenging and exciting with-in an EXISTING SET OF RULES to see who can be fast or faster.The rulebook we don't get (unless we pay more money) is not even a good guide line in terms of what can be done performance wise. It has become the norm to find illegal components and/or modifications and just change the rule to allow them. I will agree that with the now allowed modifications the indexes are soft in some cases, both stock and SS. However, I know that there are a bunch of factors that are so soft that you don't even need the basic "good stuff" in order to run a second under much less the reshaped chambers, light weight cranks, trick of the week intakes, etc. I can't help it if by correcting the hp figures causes a car to weigh 4000 or more lbs. I guess a correctly factored combo that has to weigh too much must not be a very good combo in the real world. Not everything that comes out of the "oem" has to be a viable drag racing combo. I regret that stock and SS racing has become so expensive and uncontrolled. I still, on the other hand, admire the guy who can go .02 under and do a vast majority of the work themselves. What has to stop,in order for things to slow down,is the constant changing of the rules. What we need is to enforce the rules (and make them well known to all). What we also need is across the board factoring corrections. Its not difficult. It will hurt some egos here and there however, you can't blame a racer for picking a combo that is factored more favorably than another. Problem is that there shouldn't be no more than a +/- 5hp margin of error on anything. As people state, this is 2010, getting factors close dosen't need some elaborate calculation that no one, including the people that started it, can explain. The bell curve that Lynn has expained would work. But you don't even need that. Its called common sense. If the factors were in line there would have been no index change. All changing the index did was make it harder to bring combos into line and obscure the obvious.