U/SA

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by jmantle

Rory, I don't deny the 302 combos needed a little help to be competitive but to put them back to factory was overkill. NHRA has to take into consideration what makes sense and that wasn't done in this case. My car is a natural U car and was competitive in U before the Fords received their big gift. I was one of the lucky ones, 300 lbs of ballast and it's a V car but the other V8 cars didn't have this available to them.

Jim Mantle V/SA 6632

Totally understand your situation Jim, as well as Jacks, and several others. But what about the others, including MoPar and Chevy combos, that have had their rating reduced by much more, in some cases over 50 HP, below factory HP ratings? And many of those are combinations that have been raced for decades, and often near or at the top of the qualifying sheets? As for Marks question about the 255 Ford being rated higher than the 302, yes, that is a really bad combo, the Classification guide is full of really bad combinations, some really god ones, and as Mark, Paul, & Billy tend to dig up, some really interesting, undiscovered ones.

[goinbroke2]

I had a '80 255 engine core and tore it apart to see the potential.....smaller valves and ports than a 302 if you can believe it!!! 3.68 bore, just a horrible combo. I was racing in Luskville one time and saw a ranger with a "302" in it. Ran 17 seconds and was wondering what was wrong with it. I looked at it and said, see the open valley, seperate ports on that intake? Thats a 255 not a 302. Buddy was bummed, saw it a month or two later and he had replaced it with a roller 5.0. Forget but was in the 13's I think.

Garbage engine.

Should be rated around 75hp. lol!

[Jack McCarthy]

GTS340 :

if paul builds something im sure he will most likely win. however i went to belle rose with no idea i had a chance to win, but i snuck up on bob shaw and Jim Beam took out daran left me and my ky buddy bear tarrance in the final which i got a lil greedy on the converter and pushed the beams

i assure you a usa shootout with you and wong will be even more FUN !!! pat joffrion did a fantastic job for us we pitted together had a cookout each bringing food from home (i brought ky country ham and 6 pints of Jim Beam Black) our time runs were seperate after the hemi shootout pat was one of if not THE best track operator ever !!!

hope to get out to see yall soon miss you tall guy !!

captain

[GTS340]

Miss you too my Freind.

Paul Haszlauer

[GTS340]

Jack if you read most threads. Someone mentioned Dan Rehms. Dan is the NHRA gentleman that came to our rescue when the battery was dead on the el camino. Dan came by with that Auto zone hand size box that started it up. Of course you had to let it idle for ever and missed the dial. Vegas baby! "chip and a chair"!

Paul