New cars, old cars and horsepower ratings.

[Marvin Robinson]

Originally Posted by KRatcliff

I can never remember making tuning adjustments in the later rounds. We are talking the NHRA, right? They do allow dial changes in any rounds unlike your home track. And that is a moot point because your individual class changes would be for heads up matches.

All in all I cannot follow your logic.

I admitted earlier that these concersn were from my old bracket racer habits... at my old track, you qualified at 11:00am (it was not an all run bracket race, the 32 closest to their dial-ins ran for the money), and no changes to your dial were allowed. By 7:00pm, there might be a huge change in air/temp, etc, and you might need to adjust to hit your number. (Some would dial soft, but they usually were easy to make run under in eliminations when the air got better in the evening). This is not an issue, just pointing out that you can make a change on a computer car in just a minute or two with a laptop, or even get a tuning map from a friend or teammate and use it, while the same procedure in a carbureted car takes a lot more time... in today's NHRA S/SS, a different environment, not a factor.