HP Adjustments on NHRA.com

[Michael Beard]

Originally Posted by countrypuppy4865

What Michael is saying is make a set penalty for any FWD conversion. However, I am not sure how you would come up with the proper adjustment. You would have to have two good cars (one fwd and one rwd) set up equally with same engine combo, and you would have to test each car with the same drivetrain. Rather then having a Fwd conversion hp for every engine combo, you would have say a 10hp penalty for any FWD conversion. It is obvious that something needed to be done because the FWD cars are obviously faster, but the big question is how much faster are they?

Thanks. That's what I was getting at, although I was thinking more along the lines of a weight penalty, whether it be static or a percentage, instead of continuing to gunk up the works with different HP factors.

Yes, I'm familiar with the "platforms" factoring. Great, so they've turned it into a lower form of Comp. "Combo got hit in one platform, so I'll just put it in a different platform car." Greeeeaat. Not too many people can afford to do that.

[Kevin Panzino]

Originally Posted by Bryan Worner

For the last 10+ years, FWD GT cars have been bombing combinations with hp, while the RWD GT cars running those same combos have not, but suffered the effects by adding the same weight and hp to those combinations. Finally, NHRA has realized what all of us effected by this have known all along!

Couldnt agree more. Well said.

[kdanner]

The 2013 CJ 302 is now a natural CC car. Good lord.