How crazy would it be.....

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Originally Posted by JIM MARSHALL

Billy all the rear wheel drive cars I ever raced had a natural class.

I don?t know when it became fashionable to go up a class and down a class.

If everyone was forced to run their natural class more heads up would result.

The AHFS would have a better chance to work if that is what racers want.

Forgive me if it doesn?t work for FW drive cars because I don?t have any idea how they work.

Jim, it works the same way as the upper classes (with a big hitch thrown in over time that screwed the pooch), back in 1994 I started racing this same FWD car in GF/SA (same Index, at 110hp). Ran I till 97 (never competitive). They lowered it in Feb 96 to 99hp...where it belonged originally. By that time I had spent a bunch chasing the impossible.

Then over time the combined FWD classes and got rid of GF-and FF recently. EF now bottom class at same 17.45 sea level index. (But added 6hp).

Imagine you run a G/SA car and one day you wake up and you are magically put into E/SA, and then they also tack on 6.5 percent more HP onto your combo.

You would run up a class also at least until you could make both the weight and the E.T. index to get it down to natural DF/S class (the car was never that light the day it drove off the assembly line), It took a ton of work to shave off 345lbs. And do it by the book. It happened, but reality bites because it
wasn't a full second faster...yet. Putting the weight back on was a necessary evil.

Parts removed went right back on in a day. 2/10ths above index was 2/10s below index at same high elevation track and down 1 class in EF/S I sit. Flogging away spending time and effort to get it to run at elevation what it is proven capable of running at sea level. We do what we must,, heads up or shoe polish driving against much faster dance partners at the stripe. And I prefer both.

But the faster the partner in the other lane is the most fun of all.