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The start of the retro muscle cars was when Ford introduced the '05 Mustang. How many of them do you see in stock and S/S? They weren't even in the classification guide until last year. One guy built a one for SS/GT and couldn't run in NHRA, only in IHRA, until he put up a fight to get it into the classification guide. It was added in May of '07, almost three years after it was introduced.
I have no idea of how competitive an '05-'07 Mustang would be in stock. The only engine is the 3 valve 4.6L SOHC engine which is factory 300HP. Even though it has never been run, NHRA put an extra 20 HP on it from the get-go so it's factored at 320. It could run D, E or F, but there aren't any out there. Why not? Why have the extra HP added to it before anyone even tries to run one? It is probably Ford's fault, since it is up to the manufacturer to provide the specs for the classification guide. Ford doesn't seem to support drag racing at the sportsman level at all. They put more money into Harley pro-stock motorcycles (???!!!) than sportsman racing. It sucks, and as a Ford guy it pisses me off. I'll betcha that within 6 months of the introduction of the new (ugly as sin IMHO) Camaro, there will be dozens of them in class racing. GM supports the sportsman and sees some value in having their cars at the track. That sure isn't going to make me change my colors but it does make me jealous.
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As far as the new Mustang is concerned in Stock, wouldn't the 4.6 DOHC V-8 be more difficult to deal with in teardown than our current, conventional V-8s?
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It took me over a year to get Ford to send NHRA the spec's to my 2003 Mustang Cobra and we have been in the Ford business for over 30 years. They told me the only person they care about in NHRA drag racing is John Force and that's where all their attention and $ are going . Ford point blank told me they could care less about the sportsman racers. I'm still waiting on my class win Ford check from 5 years ago. They did do a good thing with giving Evan Smith the Shelby, so maybe they are starting to see THE BIG PICTURE.
To Myron: I have been messing with the 4.6 DOHC 32v motor in this Cobra and between having 4 chains, 4 cams, 32 valve springs and lifter's and it being wider from valve cover to valve cover than a Boss 429 or a 426 hemi it been a piece of cake YA RIGHT, it's been a hand full. P.S. I just want to tell ya little story. The first night I ever went bracket racing was on a Sat. night about 1986, in Orlando and who do I get first round was this Mopar guy who dialed slow, caught me at the 1/8 and fender raced me to the finish line and wore me out and I think it was you. Good luck in 08 guys!! Bret Velde 3028 A/S 2003 Cobra |
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I admit up front that the following is strictly hearsay,so believe it or don't; if anyone can set me straight with the FACTS, please do so; these are the facts as I have heard them:
Ford is not the only manufacturer who cares little for NHRA Sportsman drag racing. I heard about a racer who spent a ton of his own money to build a late-model Corvette for Stock Eliminator and wasn't having much success with the motor, so went to General Motors and asked for some help programming the fuel curve, mainly. He had LOTS of money to spend and needed nothing but information from G.M.... nothing that would cost them a significant amount of time or factory money. Their response to him was, basically, "Shoooo... We have ZERO interest in how your car runs, and in fact will do nothing to help you achieve success on the drag strip, because that is not the image we want for our cars." He ended up selling the car. Insofar as adding horsepower before anyone has run a car with that engine down the track, as Bill Harris has pointed out, didn't NHRA do exactly the same thing to the NASCAR (single 4bbl) Hemi, a couple of years ago? I heard that someone who was, in fact, building a car for that motor stopped the project, cold, when they heard that NHRA had done that. Where's the logic in that??? How can they (NHRA) know the factor is wrong before they've even seen one run?
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Didn't you get me back at the US Class Nationals? ![]() With cutbacks at Mopar Performance, I'm concerned about what changes that will bring for Mopar sportsman racers in 2008! ![]()
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Myron hold numbers? This I GOTTA see! LOL!
![]() ![]() For what it's worth, Jon Clark, a Mopar Performance rep, was strolling the pits at the Canadian Nationals at Grand Bend a few years ago, and took the time to talk with Myron, Terry Knott, and myself, and presumably other Mopar racers. There's one manufacturer that cares! Hopefully Cerebus will allow its employees to maintain the good relationship the prior Chrysler parent companies have built over the years.
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