What horsepower?

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by art leong

Only 2 or 3 legitimate ideas.
With at least 60 people gripeing about them you would think there would be a lot more.
This is the exact reason NHRA shouldn't do anything drastic.

How are you coming to that conclusion and number? You are taking a small sample on one website on the internet. How many were complaining about the LT1's on the internet when they came out? I bet it was less than 60. So, putting them in the FIA class (their own) was too drastic even more so then than now based on your logic.

The FIA class was the correct move.

[Dgal]

Art,

Your post is a bit mixed and rereading it I am getting a second message that you think there should be more solutions based on the number of people complaining. Is that right?

Why do there have to be more solutions when the obvious one is the easiest to implement and makes the most sense, the FX classes. I feel the opposite of you in that based on the number of people complaining and there seems to be a universal acceptance of that solution. Then it might actually be the right solution.

You also have the message that says that is too drastic or it appears that is what you are saying. So I go back to my prior post.

Don

[JSLRacing]

Is there something that NHRA can do on the computer side of things? Maybe a spec computer supplier with a fixed set-up..spec a certain version of the software that must be present?

In the barn the Tech guy can hook up a lap top and check the version of the software and that the specs are correct. it would be easy for NHRA to have a software that would scan to see if it has been tampered with.

I know Nascar is fighting with how to make Fuel injection practical but even for all players in the game...

[Chad Rhodes]

Originally Posted by JSLRacing

Is there something that NHRA can do on the computer side of things? Maybe a spec computer supplier with a fixed set-up..spec a certain version of the software that must be present?

In the barn the Tech guy can hook up a lap top and check the version of the software and that the specs are correct. it would be easy for NHRA to have a software that would scan to see if it has been tampered with.

I know Nascar is fighting with how to make Fuel injection practical but even for all players in the game...

that would be equivalent to mandating what jet size and timing you can run in a carbureted car.

[JSLRacing]

Just trying to help.... no one else it giving reasonable suggestions

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by JSLRacing

Just trying to help.... no one else it giving reasonable suggestions

Factory Experimental classes and the FIA classes are not reasonable? The both of them worked.

[art leong]

Originally Posted by Dgal

Factory Experimental classes and the FIA classes are not reasonable? The both of them worked.

You answer your own question with the word Worked, not works.
It was tried and the reason they dropped them was they didn't work. If they Worked they would still have them. You mention IHRA has them, they also have crate motor, and pure stock, Etc. And look at the car counts?
We have enough classes already.

[Alan Roehrich]

The reason the FI classes were merged back in is because the HP rating disparity had been reduced to a survivable level. Sure, they wanted to reduce the number of classes, but it had become reasonable to do so as well.

They did work. The fact that the FI cars eventually fell in line close to the rest is a testament to that.

I've been a fan of and an advocate for reducing the number of classes, at least in Stock, but the new cars have shown that there is a need for classes for "factory specials" or whatever you want to call the bogus combinations with absurd factors.

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by art leong

You answer your own question with the word Worked, not works.
It was tried and the reason they dropped them was they didn't work. If they Worked they would still have them. You mention IHRA has them, they also have crate motor, and pure stock, Etc. And look at the car counts?
We have enough classes already.

That is pure bunk. You are parsing words. The FI classes were implemented, they worked, and then the cars were brought back into the traditional classes. The FI classes served their purpose just like the FX classes can until the AHFS catches up and it will work for the upcoming motors that Ford has in the wings. The NHRA doesn't have Crate Motor classes, but they are allowing crate motors from Ford and Chrysler.

So what about the car counts. That has nothing to do with how many classes the IHRA has or doesn't have. It has to do with it is the IHRA and the NHRA has always been a bigger draw.

You have every right in the world to voice your opinion and I respect that. But it is no skin off your nose how the NHRA handles this one way or another. It is skin off my nose and it does affect me directly since I have to run these factory race cars heads up where you don't.