U/SA

[Rory McNeil]

Originally Posted by jmantle

Rory, I don't deny the 302 combos needed a little help to be competitive but to put them back to factory was overkill. NHRA has to take into consideration what makes sense and that wasn't done in this case. My car is a natural U car and was competitive in U before the Fords received their big gift. I was one of the lucky ones, 300 lbs of ballast and it's a V car but the other V8 cars didn't have this available to them.

Jim Mantle V/SA 6632

Totally understand your situation Jim, as well as Jacks, and several others. But what about the others, including MoPar and Chevy combos, that have had their rating reduced by much more, in some cases over 50 HP, below factory HP ratings? And many of those are combinations that have been raced for decades, and often near or at the top of the qualifying sheets? As for Marks question about the 255 Ford being rated higher than the 302, yes, that is a really bad combo, the Classification guide is full of really bad combinations, some really god ones, and as Mark, Paul, & Billy tend to dig up, some really interesting, undiscovered ones.