Indy Teardown Warning

[Tom Broome]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

Gotcha, yeah technology does get cheaper as time goes on, but 60,000 seems like a lot to invest for just Stockers. NHRA is the place to race if you are a Stocker, so if this is the way it is going to be, we will just have to adjust. It just would have been nice to know this before the season started.

But $60,000 is not too much to ensure parity in the showdown classes.
Let's imagine what we can accomplish by digitizing a bunch of "stock" heads:
(A) NHRA can get a handle on the hanky-panky going on in the showdown classes. We all know there is something to CNCing your own heads to a given port volume.
(B) NHRA can ensure that the Edelbrock heads are as "stock" as they came from Edelbrock
(C) It's common knowledge that some of the 60's/70's "stocker" heads have widely varying port shapes depending on how long a manufacturer uses core molds.

But who really knows the discrepancy(s)?

How are the builders "tuning up" these castings?

NHRA can now qualify the extent of these variables and use that information to discern the competitors pushing the boundaries of the rules.
I would anticipate that currently there is not a big enough database to qualify ,or disqualify, most OEM castings. There are probably some castings that are modified outside the range of credulity, those racers should be the ones to fear inspection.