Once again a bogus combination

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by Dean Roberts

Clay, we are not wanting to compare, we are comparing because it is just as blatant as the current cars everyone is crying about. But those crying about teh Cj and DP cars won't admit it. Any manufacturer will get away with whatever it can and it is the sanctioning bodies job to keep it all fair. It doesn't matter what the form of racing is, and it's found in all auto racing.

How could go to the dealer and buy a car that didn't exist? Which is the case with the '98 F-body with an LT1. Also, crossbreeding parts is illegal, yet the Pinto rack is legal in a GM car. How do you explain NHRA allowing that? It is a performance advantage because a Pinto rack is lighter than the stock GM setup and removing nose weight is worth a ton in a Stocker. We all want to know why the3 GM racers aren't screaming on the Internet for over a year about that?

Yeah, you are "wanting to compare", you are not "comparing", because you are not making a valid comparison, by any stretch. A hand grenade is closer to an M-80 than one of these crate motor cars is to a 98 LT-1 F body.

Removing nose weight isn't worth a ton in a stocker. I'm not saying a Pinto rack should be legal.

The LT-1 was already a legal engine, certified by the EPA for street use in a production vehicle for sale to the general public. Yes, technically you could make a case that a 98 LT-1 F body is a "paper car".

So what is a car that is sold unassembled, no engine, no transmission, and no rear end? And classed with an engine or engines that are not certified for safety or emissions, or installed in a street driven production vehicle, ever? A "thin air car"?

What you REALLY want to know is why some people don't think two wrongs make a right.

I posted this in another thread, and I noticed that no one has ever addressed it:

If you want the new cars, why is it so important that they be in classes where they have such a huge advantage over other cars? Seriously, why is it necessary to just absolutely kill cars already racing? Why CAN'T they be in their own class? Why is it that it would be wrong for NHRA to learn a lesson from the past, and put these cars in a class by themselves, until the factors get reasonable, just like they eventually did with the FI cars? They'll go just as fast as they are now, with the exact same parts, and the exact same cash outlay. Why is it necessary to punish current combinations to add new cars? There would be little or no argument about any of this if the new cars had their own classes. Is it really necessary to give them 3 tenths to show, and 3 tenths to hold, over other racers, just to get them to race? Is it some sort of secret requirement that they be so dominant, just to get people to buy them and race them? Is that what we need to draw "new participants"? Do we REALLY need to do this just to get people to race? If we do, there's no hope for class racing, period. Not if this is what it will be reduced to.