horsepower welfare

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by GTS340

Got your welfare. Must have a personal beef with me Billy. I took the 340 out because of all the crying about some intake that i didn't need or want. I spend a great amount of money to put a 440 in. play by the rules and put in a request and got it. I can be found out in the west coast if need me..
Paul Haszlauer

Nope, I don't have a "personal beef" with any Racer. My "beef" is with the NHRA Tech Dept. and how they have manipulated their rules over time.
When the replacement head deal started out, a Racer could use the legal replacement head on his combo with a HP penalty. NOW, somewhere along the line, the replacement head becomes it's OWN combo. THAT'S B.S.!
If the NHRA is going to do it that way then maybe they should consider a combo with a replacement intake manifold a different combo too!

[Mark Yacavone]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

If the NHRA is going to do it that way then maybe they should consider a combo with a replacement intake manifold a different combo too!

You see where this is going to, Billy?
Hope not, because those two associations are no longer around.

[GUMP]

Wouldn't it be a no brainer to roll the two together once the stock head HP meets or passes the replacement head HP?

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by GUMP

Wouldn't it be a no brainer to roll the two together once the stock head HP meets or passes the replacement head HP?

And being a "no Brainer", the people doing this stuff should qualify for the job.

Mark, I just haven't figured out yet whether we're heading towards ET-2 or personal indexes.

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

Mark, I just haven't figured out yet whether we're heading towards ET-2 or personal indexes.

Maybe in a year or two it will be like the NMCA national muscle car classes for stockers and the N/SS classes for S/S where they just have to look legal (kind of) with the 1/4 second spreads per class already listed. Car to slow on a particular weekend....just pick another et break and change the letter on the windows. That's how brackets started at Aquasco, Capitol, and other D,C area drag strips back before 1966. No tech except looks ?????? Its almost there now.

[Super Sport]

Originally Posted by X-TECH MAN

Maybe in a year or two it will be like the NMCA national muscle car classes for stockers and the N/SS classes for S/S where they just have to look legal (kind of) with the 1/4 second spreads per class already listed. Car to slow on a particular weekend....just pick another et break and change the letter on the windows. That's how brackets started at Aquasco, Capitol, and other D,C area drag strips back before 1966. No tech except looks ?????? Its almost there now.

The brass in Glendora are probably waiting for the very few S/SS techmen that are left to retire. Then they can adopt the NMCA program and save money in the tech dept. Keep up the complaining and it may happen sooner than expected.

[tpoh815]

Originally Posted by Billy Nees

. NOW, somewhere along the line, the replacement head becomes it's OWN combo. THAT'S B.S.!
If the NHRA is going to do it that way then maybe they should consider a combo with a replacement intake manifold a different combo too!

By the sound of this, it's like IHRA was ahead of the times! Get what you can-muster and get it approved.

[Coleydog]

Just like out west around 1900, cowboys sitting on their horses watching this 4 wheel noisy contraption riding around town saying to themselves that this thing will not last, it's just a fad, a new thing.
What I'm saying this is the future. NHRA already sees S/S and Stock as a waste of money, time and manpower, heck they're having a hard time keeping the "pro" classes together and these S/S-Ss are the low man on the pole. Worst case, I see NHRA rolling over like the other guys(AHRA-IHRA) where are you gonna race then? A Similar situation happened here last week. Local bowling alley closed doors with two days noticed, sold the building, all those leagues out in the cold nowhere to go, done. It's all about the bottom line. I'd love to see it stay the same as before but like Brad Pitt said, nothing lasts!
These people will make it easier and if that means no tech and stretched rules then that's what they'll do to stay alive.
IMO
Mike

[X-TECH MAN]

My thoughts and opinions
Local Stock and S/S Associations will be around maybe longer and the NMCA seems to be gaining popularity though they have a lot of weird classes now. They will run out of time to run a show and time trials. They will keep only those classes that bring in any spectators and a larger car count. I give it a few years.....but not many.

[X-TECH MAN]

[QUOTE=X-TECH MAN;553321]My thoughts and opinions
Local Stock and S/S Associations will be around maybe longer and the NMCA seems to be gaining popularity though they have a lot of weird classes now. They will run out of time to run a show and time trials. They will keep only those classes that bring in any spectators and a larger car count. I give it a few years.....but not many.