The damage recently done

[SStockDart]

Ya want an AMX? here are a couple of em....

http://phoenix.craigslist.org/wvl/cto/3200535312.html

[Ed Fernandez]

It's fun listening to the whinning when the big 3 cars have been getting enhancements since the stoneage.Allow the dealer parts,if documented and put a factor on them and go on to whinning about something else,like PAYOUTS.

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by ed fernandez

it's fun listening to the whinning when the big 3 cars have been getting enhancements since the stoneage.allow the dealer parts,if documented and put a factor on them and go on to whinning about something else,like payouts.

x2!

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

Allow the dealer parts,if documented and put a factor on them and go on to whinning about something else,like PAYOUTS.

Ya know Eddie, when you're right, you're right.
But "put a factor on them"! The AHFS won't fix them.
i think that 10 for the carb, 10 for the intake, 10 for the cam and 10 for the heads sounds about right. That way, somebody can build an AMX at 355 HP and see if it's competitive. If it's not then ask for HP back and the AHFS has fixed it the right way.
Sounds fair to me, want to start a new thread about payouts?

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Ya know Eddie, when you're right, you're right.
But "put a factor on them"! The AHFS won't fix them.
i think that 10 for the carb, 10 for the intake, 10 for the cam and 10 for the heads sounds about right. That way, somebody can build an AMX at 355 HP and see if it's competitive. If it's not then ask for HP back and the AHFS has fixed it the right way.
Sounds fair to me, want to start a new thread about payouts?

I like that.Now throw some more HP on all that "aluminium" (British pronounciation) in all those BBC chevies that need them because they can't find decent castings anymore.

[Andrew Hill]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

I like that.Now throw some more HP on all that "aluminium" (British pronounciation) in all those BBC chevies that need them because they can't find decent castings anymore.

Well the aluminum headed 396s do have a higher HP rating

[Greg Hill]

Looking back at the parts books from 1970 would be an eye opener. I know more about Chevys because I worked two summers at the Chevy dealership in my hometown. I spent $26 for a 327/350 hp cam for a 283 in 1967. If you go by what's in the parts books and not how the cars came from the factory things would be a whole lot different. The 396 guys could run the zl-1 cam and the 850 carb. The small block guys would get the off road cam which was made for the trans am cars. All the manufacturers had high performance items in their parts books but they were never allowed into stock until the last few years. The reason that these parts were not in the NHRA class guide is that first they didn't come from the factory that way and second Farmer would have never and didn't put them in the guide.

Oh and by the way, the police interceptor manifold was only approved for the cobra jets for super stock and not stock in 1968. To suddenly after 40 plus years find these documents that support letting these parts in is a little suspect at best.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Greg Hill

Oh and by the way, the police interceptor manifold was only approved for the cobra jets for super stock and not stock in 1968. To suddenly after 40 plus years find these documents that support letting these parts in is a little suspect at best.

Greg, not that I'm a FFFord guy but the original 50 681/2 CJs had aluminium intakes. The passenger cars didn't but, NHRA isn't going to start checking VIN#s to see which are which so they let all of the 68s have them. The 69s shouldn't have gotten the aluminium intakes.

As I remember the BIg Block Chevrolets received a crate motor intake that was much bigger and better than the stock one with no HP penalty. I think it was off of the 502 crate engine. Those cars are going 9.60's not bad as well. Not to much outrage about that.