HP Adjustments on NHRA.com

[Ed Wright]

Well stated F.J.! Very few work hard to make their stuff fast anymore. Bracket racers.

[Doug McCue]

for three years I have asked the 1970 - 402/375 in a camaro be refactored and each time has been not changed. The combo is not correct with current hp thoughts what should be the next step?

[Casey Miles]

I see the new cars in a different way, everyone of the new cars introduced to NHRA competition should have 100 HP added to the stock HP rating and let them race the HP off. This way the racers will have to make the cars run what they can run and not get a gift of qualifying at the top of the fields. Every time I go to a race, I see the new cars with hardly having to take the valve covers off to run 1 second under. These cars in the most part don't belong in Stock anyway, they don't have Vin numbers to be legal on the street and they don't have motors that are in regular production with the vehicles. Nothing will change, just the car counts going down because the older cars can't compete with the new technology. In 1970, the Z/28 350 which has been re rated now, was rated at 400 hp in 1970, solid lifter, carburetor and distributor. How does a 1998 and newer 350 which has roller cam, fuel injection and crank trigger end up with less HP the the 1970 engine?
Just my point of view.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock

[countrypuppy4865]

Bernie, with the new request form on the nhra website they had a lengthy list last year as well.

[Bernie Cunningham]

Where this rule bugs me the most is in Stock that a HP in a firebird/camaro, circa '93 - '98 LT1 does not apply to a corvette platform, these are obvious sports cars yet NHRA separates 'em, WHY ????
We're not talking about station wagons to sedans here. OOOHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!~! "Shelby"

Thx. Cooter, I reckoned it was longer than usual. Seems there a are more crybabies out there than I thought, My bad