NMCA Good OR BAD ?

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Originally Posted by Todd Hoven

It sounds like a good time, but it is just a bracket race. Why drive hunderes of miles to go to a bracket race when there are local tracks for footbrake and no electronic racing , and S/SS races where we can run'em like we do in the NHRA and IHRA. What is different about this racing than everything else? Racing against old cars with 500 inch engines and dual quads? Whats makes it better? Can anyone explain this to me?

NO. 1...It is NOT a bracket race and never has been one, all cars run off established indexes, go below your index and you go home.

NO.2...If you race in S/SS in either HRA you are bracket racing, you're the one's that dial down off your index...you often have several cars in the same class that have different dial in's....NOT in NMCA..B/S is 10.50 and everyone in B/S runs off the 10.50.

NO.3 The entire NMCA and the NSS were designed to bring back the glory days of drag racing and was not intended to compete with the HRS's, days when muscle cars competed and factory built drag cars battled for no.1

NO.4 ...The original rules were set up so that these cars would run just as they were....NO electronics...so that winning the race was up to the driver not a dashfull of electronics....in other words: real drag racing!

NO.5...These cars ran special engines so the rules were set to make it cheaper to race using modern replacement blocks but it has to be a factory specific engine ie. 440 block in a Mopar because it's too expensive to find (if you can) a 426 block; 409's are even harder to find and 427 FE Fords are too expensive so you can run a 460 instead.

NO.6...The whole thing was set up to race at a reasonable price, revive the old race cars, and to go have fun with guys and gals that share your love for the old race cars that we grew up with and raced....

I suggest you google NMCA or NSS and read the rules and about the organizations.

Hope this shed some light on the subject.

Jim