HP Adjustments

[Jared Jordan]

5.7 DP with an auto is back at 360 hp as of today in Stock. '10 SCJ is back at 517 hp as of today in SS. Someone must have decided the altitude adjusted runs weren't included. I suppose that's the fair thing to do until there's some clarification from the powers that be.

[Andys dad]

I bet someone is going to build a stick shift version which is still rated at 305 HP

:-)

Peace

PS - JJ responded to Dogs on FB

[hadtobethere]

.....just goes to show you that NHRA's left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.

When they have NO clue except when someone is willing to 'show them the money'....what they put in print will only last until they change their minds, but money talks

[NewHemi]

What in the world are you guys thinking....

An honest error gets corrected and you start making unfounded allegations against the character and honesty of the individiuals involved..

If we get horsepower for running less than the corrected sea level index, than so should everyone else who ran 1.25 under the elevated index. If you want all of the cars to get horsepower, than so be it, but for all of you who constantly whine in favor of "fairness", why not extend the "fairness" doctrine to us too????

It is all good, we dont get horsepower, and neither do the mustangs... But neither do the all of the older cars who did exactly what we did without horsepower, or got the extra horsepower removed once the error was recognized.

David
The New Hemi Guy

[Ed Wright]

And your driver said you were heavy for C/SA while running B/SA. You were the guys that were going to race straight up and not sandbag. How long did that last?

[Tony Janes]

Las Vegas is an altitude strip, 1.25 under sea level index to get instant horse power, I think we have been to this dance before. End of story

[Dgal]

Originally Posted by Salty Dog

I don't think that is called sandbagging. Just change to the C/SA index and see how fast they were. Sandbaggers lift and hide their weight. Keith was honest. He is a heck of a credible drag racer and has nothing to hide.

That car is as close to the definition of sandbagging as one could get. Heck, it even meets the term if they were using sand instead of steel.

Ed is applying the C/SA index to see how fast they were. If they were running the true weight of B/SA and not lifting then the horsepower figures would have stuck. They either lift or run extra weight to avoid getting the hit. They ran extra weight which is sandbagging.

Our car was there running their spare motor and it ran fantastic. We were within the weight range for C/SA and qualified just fine. The most impressive C/SA car at Vegas was Carson Pedigo's Chevelle. Not the Drag Pak eventhough it was in B/SA, but it ran at a heavy C/SA.

Every time one of the Drag Paks ran you would see people at the starting line shaking their heads in disgust. You should have heard some of the comments when they were pounding on the legit fast cars in the heads up races.

There were guys in the lanes that were talking about the "what ifs" they came up against one in future rounds. None of them felt the need to take their car to the go fast mode. None of them had a favorable comment of the Drag Paks or Cobra Jets as classified.

And none of them post here.

Don

[Larry Curtis]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

And your driver said you were heavy for C/SA while running B/SA. You were the guys that were going to race straight up and not sandbag. How long did that last?

Sandbaging: definition;
Keith LynchRuns 10.009/112.110mph

[NewHemi]

Originally Posted by Ed Wright

And your driver said you were heavy for C/SA while running B/SA. You were the guys that were going to race straight up and not sandbag. How long did that last?

And you actually heard him say that???? Or are you relying on second hand info which might be either mistakenly interpreted, or simply wrong??? It is amazing how someone gets a fact misinterpreted, and someone else is trying to hang us on hearsay, that isn't even close to the truth. Toby misheard Keith about the weight. No big deal, until someone who wasn't even in the same conversation wants to pick a nit with us. Did you heard Keith say anything about the weight? Or are you just applying typical Democratic argument strategy, "Forget the facts and issues, just attack the person!"

We run our car like others run theirs.We take weight out when we don't need it, and we put it when we do need it. No difference there as I can list an awful lot of stockers who do the same thing. But if you actually knew our factory shipping weight (instead of relying on rumors etc..) then you would know exactly what we weigh, ad we a re a very heavy car.. We can take everything legal out of the car and still can't get down to the weight in most classes we have run.

Why are we being persecuted about running an unfair combo, when Dgal (Don) can run his fuel injected car against a flock of carbed cars from the 60's and nobody thinks that is equally unfair??

This is really funny stuff as many kettles here call us out, and ignore their own positions in the past. A mis-factored car in the past is OK, but any factor issues on the new cars is a crime against humanity...

I don't know you who were talking to in Vegas. The many fans in the stands I saw were on their feet cheering for us. And the many more who came down to meet us and get pictures with us were also cheering for us. I guess you see what you want to see and hear what you want to hear, but this (Thursday) morning in Pomona, I had dozens of folks come by the car to get a good look and get photos. We even put some of them in the car for photos, and they love it. These are fans of the car indeed. Fans like us a lot, racers might no like us, but the fans surely do, no matter what negative fictions get thrown out here.

Come by the car some time, and if I am in a good mood, I will even let you sit in it for a minute,if I am really in a good mood. And after our first qualifying run, I am in a pretty good mood. So stop by, and share a bit of racing history.

But regardless of who like us and who doesn't, get used to it folks, we (the new cars) are here to stay, and next year your cars will be treated to whole new set of rules that you aren't going to like, any more than we like them. Keep whining and crying and maybe NHRA can find a new way to punish the whiners in addition to lowering the AHFS threshold.

And to whomever called us sandbaggers, we are not sandbaggers at all. We are only doing what the other cars are doing. But to correct the facts, we use lead shot bags in our weight box, ........not sand anyway....

David
The New hemi Guy