Wondering what stock racers think

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Casey Miles

I know that there are several 302 cars that fly, but there is difference of just how much money I'm willing to spend on mine. I can tell anyone that there is no lack of effort on my part working towards bettering the performance of the car. There is also the factor of trying to preserve the originality of the Z/28 as a Stocker.

It makes me wonder that all the advantages that a solid lifter engine had which got lost with the valve spring and hydraulic lifters rules. A hydraulic based engine didn't get an increase in HP and the solid lifter based engines didn't get a reduction in HP. The factory didn't make the true performance cars hydraulic lifter, they came as solid lifters with mandatory disk brakes.

So as hard as I work on my combo, power is given away by NHRA to the lower powered engine families. Give them the HP they should be rated like a solid lifter engine.

Casey Miles

Casey,
Nothing personal, but you're making several choices to render yourself less than competitive, and asking everyone else to accommodate you. And you're complaining about other combinations.


Time doesn't stand still for any of us, and progress doesn't stop for any of us, either.



Honestly, who has been racing an original Z-28 (and the most rare of them) longer than Dave and Ben? And they're pretty competitive. A small journal crank and rods aren't worth that much in ET. Brian Rogers goes fairly quick with a 69 Z-28, and there are few people more low buck than he is.



You're flat out saying "I CHOOSE not to be competitive" and then saying "I want HP added to the other guys" and finally "I want all of the class held back to let me keep up".


We ALL got the enhancements, whether we wanted them or not. And I've argued against several of them. I wouldn't complain if the rules were turned back about 30 years or so, actually.



I'm not even arguing for lower the indexes.



With all due respect, that ain't racing. Sorry if you're "taken back", but facts are facts.