Small Block Chevys & NHRA Reactions or lack of:

[SS Engine Guy]

NHRA's answer...Allow combustion chamber modifications instead of the corrective action of tossing them all.

Now there is a really good question. Why weren't they all tossed? Rule book plainly stated at the time that there were to be NO modifications at all in the combustion chambers. Not a grey area, easily understood, printed in black and white. These were not disquised modifications or judgement calls, these were complete reworks of the shape of the chambers. Not simple unshrouding of valves. I don't care about the arguement that others had passed tech with them. That was wrong in itself and whoever passed any should have been tossed too.

If you are going to have a rule book and not follow it when rules are plainly written in most cases. Why spend the money to print and distribute it? The cross breeding of parts is another story all to its self. I can't count the number of times over the years that I have been told, and have it in writing, that if a motor didn't come out with small journals in a certain year then it was in violation of this rule and would be disqualified and penalties to follow.