Common Sense GT car rules revision!

[Lynn A McCarty]

Originally Posted by John Kelley

NHRA should just lower the HP Factor for the "ram air" in bodies without a SCOOP.....problem solved.\
And a LOT less hassle on legality of the proper scoop..........geesh

Yes true John, but how much do you figure? Then.......how much for the shorter intake that kills power? Some cars have less than others. I know I put RA on my wifes 99 TA and it was like night and day.

If you add the allowable hood stock hood scoop all the variables and dynamics go away. Our Max wedge is suffering at least 20HP on the intake and probably another number for the Ram Air. The 455SD's I havent a clue. The 440 Magnums, who knows?

The thing that really pisses us off is that there are many cars out there without RA engines running their hoods open. That aint right either. Common Sense could fix that too.

[Dave Tincher]

Would you have to put the scoop on a stock hood? Or could you use the very expensive carbon fiber hoods floating around in SuperStock on GT cars?

[Lynn A McCarty]

Originally Posted by Dave Tincher

Would you have to put the scoop on a stock hood? Or could you use the very expensive carbon fiber hoods floating around in SuperStock on GT cars?

My hood is steel OEM TA hood. I would suggest just incorporating the correct shaker or hood scoop that the RAM AIR engine came from original OEM in the car. Factory hypo cars run the ram air HP rating as we all know it was done for two reasons. First one being ram air, but the most important reason hood clearance so we can get a good intake on there to properly represent the HP rating. We lose both of these by going to the GT cars.