**Final decision on two-step usage**

[Beth Denysenko]

Ahhhhh, the 'ol "Divide and Conquer." Sad thing is we are doing it to ourselves. Our focus should always be the upper management, the people actually making/changing the rules, not each other. NHRA racers, whether you like it or not, IHRA has helped keep NHRA as honest as possible. Competition (as in _HRA trying to keep us as customers) is good for US as racers. Let's remember that. As long as we have a choice, hopefully both sanctioning bodies will keep that in mind as they choose their enhancements for us. Pepsi keeps Coke's prices down and vice-versa. So...... carry on.

[SSDiv6]

Originally Posted by Beth Kieffer

Ahhhhh, the 'ol "Divide and Conquer." Sad thing is we are doing it to ourselves. Our focus should always be the upper management, the people actually making/changing the rules, not each other. NHRA racers, whether you like it or not, IHRA has helped keep NHRA as honest as possible. Competition (as in _HRA trying to keep us as customers) is good for US as racers. Let's remember that. As long as we have a choice, hopefully both sanctioning bodies will keep that in mind as they choose their enhancements for us. Pepsi keeps Coke's prices down and vice-versa. So...... carry on.

Beth is right!!!

[Brandon Peterson]

i don't understand the big deal with it all you still have to use the brake pedal with a 2 step button i don't think there is any advantage using a 2 step other than your leaving at the exact same RPM and it seems to make 60's 330's the whole deal a little more consistant i am hit and miss with the 2 step and am the same way with footbraken ican win or lose more rounds with the 2 step than with footbrake...so bottom line is if you like the 2 step run it if you like footbrake run it thats why they give the option to do either or anyone can win and loose rounds easy but a 2 step doesn't give anyone a better chance...and if you want to know who i am im Brandon Peterson and i race M/CM in IHRA...deal with it.....michael close call on the world maybe next year woull take it see you at piedmont

[tgriffith]

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[Chip THELEGEND Johnson]

Anybody want to buy a stocker.

I think I'll use a button next year with a little box and a solenoid hooked to it.

Chip

p.s.

take them out or allow the box no in between

[Ed Fernandez]

I saw a little plastic box with a bunch of switches and
what I was told was a diode buried in it.He said he bought it for $100.Showed it to tech guys to prove that it's out there.Anybody caught with one in stock should have the car impounded and the owner/driver banned for life,like IHRA had the balls to do with the Dirty Dozen.

Ed F.
1945 T/SA

[Alan Roehrich]

Ed, explain to me what the big deal about a diode is. A diode is just a one way check valve for electricity. There's at least a couple of diodes on every stocker, they're in the alternator.

Yes, I agree it IS possible to cheat, with electronics. I just find the mass hysteria amusing.

[Robert Pare Racing]

Where is Top Fool when we really need him?

[Ed Fernandez]

Originally Posted by Ed Fernandez

I saw a little plastic box with a bunch of switches and
what I was told was a diode buried in it.He said he bought it for $100.Showed it to tech guys to prove that it's out there.Anybody caught with one in stock should have the car impounded and the owner/driver banned for life,like IHRA had the balls to do with the Dirty Dozen.

Ed F.
1945 T/SA

The switches I was refering to were supposedly timers.Nowthat partwas what concerned me.

Ed F.
1945 T/SA

[SS Engine Guy]

Controled by RPM, TIMER, or TIME TO RPM? Several posts back a knowlegdable racer just gave you the senario. Anything that shifts (tracks) your car based on anything other than a needle on a tach and your eyes, has the potential for supplying a dead on run.