New AHFS

B Parker · 12-23-2021, 06:52 PM

As long as there has been Stock and Super Stock there has always been combo's that are underrated. This has not changed in the last 50 years. In Division One if you look at a Lucas Oil race that has about 100 cars how many are under factored? My guess would be 4 or 5. Most of these are the newer ones that only have other new cars in their class. So, we make a rule change that could possibly affect a large part of the field because of only 4 or 5 percent of the cars. Why? Also helping to kill what I always thought was a performance-based class. If you race a class that is not that populated, and the odds are great that you will not see a heads up run this will probably not have much of an effect on you. Unless you have someone that races your combo that is into the performance. But for those of us that race combo's that have several cars in our class and have a good chance of racing someone heads up in the eliminator it could have a big effect on us. James Boyce, I don't get your post. I looked your name up and the first race that came up you qualified with a run of 1.176 under in L/SA this year. Are you saying you had it on kill for qualifying? Is your car underrated? Billy my car gets to use parts that NHRA approved (not me). This is the year 2021 and I for one don't want to go back to where an A car runs mid 11"s. But if we did, I still would have one of the faster ones. It has nothing to do with the parts. I care about the performance side of Stock and stay awake nights trying to come up with ways of making my car go faster. So, what really makes a combo underrated? Is it how fast it goes? How about if you take a car from a bone yard. Don't build the engine or trany to the NHRA rules of today. PLay with the tune up, gears, convertors and ect. Now you run .5 under. I would have to say that the combo is underacted. Just no one cared enough to build one using today's rules. BP

12-23-2021, 06:52 PM	#18
B Parker Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 849 Likes: 980 Liked 2,336 Times in 464 Posts	Re: New AHFS As long as there has been Stock and Super Stock there has always been combo's that are underrated. This has not changed in the last 50 years. In Division One if you look at a Lucas Oil race that has about 100 cars how many are under factored? My guess would be 4 or 5. Most of these are the newer ones that only have other new cars in their class. So, we make a rule change that could possibly affect a large part of the field because of only 4 or 5 percent of the cars. Why? Also helping to kill what I always thought was a performance-based class. If you race a class that is not that populated, and the odds are great that you will not see a heads up run this will probably not have much of an effect on you. Unless you have someone that races your combo that is into the performance. But for those of us that race combo's that have several cars in our class and have a good chance of racing someone heads up in the eliminator it could have a big effect on us. James Boyce, I don't get your post. I looked your name up and the first race that came up you qualified with a run of 1.176 under in L/SA this year. Are you saying you had it on kill for qualifying? Is your car underrated? Billy my car gets to use parts that NHRA approved (not me). This is the year 2021 and I for one don't want to go back to where an A car runs mid 11"s. But if we did, I still would have one of the faster ones. It has nothing to do with the parts. I care about the performance side of Stock and stay awake nights trying to come up with ways of making my car go faster. So, what really makes a combo underrated? Is it how fast it goes? How about if you take a car from a bone yard. Don't build the engine or trany to the NHRA rules of today. PLay with the tune up, gears, convertors and ect. Now you run .5 under. I would have to say that the combo is underacted. Just no one cared enough to build one using today's rules. BP Last edited by B Parker; 12-23-2021 at 07:14 PM.