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Ok Gerg next time you run someone heads up and you are three tenths faster, are you are going to pack up and go home because it would not be a far race? I think not. How are the two any different? You say it's not fair well NHRA racing and life are alot alike there both not fair all the time. In life we learn to deal with things that are unfair that is what makes us better. It not fair my dad let me race a slow 1983 malibu wgn while other young racers dads built them new race cars but I delt with it and I'am better for it now(I was just glad to drive anything). Andrew racing will never be fair there will always be someone faster car or a bigger pocket book. All we can do is play by the rules NHRA sets for us end of storie. If you don't like the sand get out of the sand box.

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Charlie the difference is that my combination is rated fairly, in fact I think it's a pretty tough combination to make run fast. The ratings on the new Ford crate motors along with the Chrysler crate motors are bogus as hell. I would like to run a GM Fast burn motor in my car at 275 hp. but I can't. The factories are doing exactly that and NHRA is letting them.

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Greg you are right about your combo being far. But who is really the problem NHRA for trying to get new cars in stock or superstock or Ford and Chrysler for trying to sell cars and parts? If the combos are not soft who would build one?

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Charlie,so what you're saying is that it's okay for Ford, Chrysler and NHRA to collude to get underated combinations into stock to the detriment of people who have been racing for 20 or 30 years. That's kind of like saying it's okay for them to steal from us. This is all bull**** and anybody with half a brain knows this. I guess I'll forgive you though since I heard you were getting a new Mustang.

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Greg at I ‘am say is if you look back over the past 25 years in Stock and Superstock these combo are not any softer then past cars when they came out. Examples LT1, LS1, L-98, 1960’s cobra jets, dodge pick trucks & almost every combo Al Provost ran. If some of these combos are not soft who would build one? And if everyone had a 1969 camaro 255/350 in STK and SS the class would suck. It is stuff like this that makes our class so cool. You guys really don't how many people now know about Stk and Superstock now just because of these cobra jets. In the past nine weeks I have talked with over twenty people that had no clue what STK and SS was and now wants to go see what it's all about and maybe someday build a car. In the big picture these car are doing more good than bad. The problem is change is going to happen wheatear you like it or not and some people just don’t like change. If Stk and SS don’t change(Just a little) with the times we will end up just like modified eliminator, GONE.

If the hp system was ran correctly this would not be that big of an issue. We all know that.

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Sean, you are right, to the manufacturer it is about selling cars, which is why NHRA let GM racers run the LT-1 in the '98 F-bodies when these cars were never built. In my book this was the first "crate engine" stocker. Why was this not Super Stock only?



Evan

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The truth is that this is what happens when the Big Three decide to get back into Stock/SS! The last time around they did everything they could with what they had in their parts bins to. Why should it be any different this time around? Why do you think they built Hemi cars, COPO cars, and Cobra Jet Mustangs in the late sixties? They sure weren't aimed at socker mums!

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Thak you so very very much at least there is one other guy on here who gets it :)

What I think is funny is there are guys running those cars and combos who are upset their 40 year old relics just got outdated by something that should have happened over 20 years ago. its the year 2009 for crying out loud...

Thanks GUMP, seriously thanks

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Just so you know, even the owner's manual in my 98 Firebird (V6 powered) shows a 5.7L 350 cid V8.

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There were over 1200 COPO L-72 Camaros built, 69 ZL-1 Camaros, plenty of L-88 Corvettes, around 500 or so L-72 69 Chevelles, and the list goes on. All real street legal cars sold at the dealership. Not only that, only the ZL-1 Camaro had a really high price tag.

If these cross breed crate motor combinations are legal, then why isn't a 67 Corvette L-88 legal? After all, they built and sold 36 of them. Who knows how many were given away.

If the Roush cars are legal, why aren't all the Yenko cars, or all of the Baldwin/Motion cars?

It's suddenly all fine and dandy to put just about anything in Stock Eliminator, regardless of whether or not it was even remotely intended for street use, or even produced at the factory. There used to be a rule about "export cars", "tuner cars" and all of that. Rules intended specifically to keep ringers with bogus factors out of Stock. But now it is evidently okay to put anything in Stock, regardless of it ever being actually produced or available in the showroom at all. And you can evidently name your own factor as well.

The idea that all of this is absolutely no different than 98 F bodies with 97 LT-1 engines is the biggest bunch of BS I've seen. In fact, evidently the 97 and 98 carry the same HP factor and the same curb weight. So, in effect, they're only different in appearance. But somehow they are as outrageously bogus as a car that has 650HP at the rear wheels in stock form being factored at 425 HP. Yeah, right. :rolleyes: