Indy Teardown Warning

[Tom Broome]

Originally Posted by Ken Miele

A member sent me this email below that they received from the D1 Stock Super Stock rep. I am surprised it has not been brought up sooner. This also may have something to do with the newly purchased digital scanner by NHRA. From what I here from the grape vine, they will be looking at cylinder heads with this scanner. The question I have, with the lack of tech officials and man power how did they possible get all the heads scanned, there has to be hundreds of heads used today. Shouldn't they have told Stock and Super Stock this will be the new standard. Also when scanning, do they take into account core shift. I also heard this was a major concern with the Showdown cars, maybe that's the reason for the low car count for Indy.

Interesting topic and I would like to here more opinions good or bad.

Unfortunately I had to delete the email as a request by the sender. In my opinion we should know whats going, this is why I posted it. Although I am a D1 racer I don't receive emails from the D1 rep because of my affiliation with Class Racer, draw your own consultations. NHRA has made their own announcement on this subject.

This sounds like something from the past.

At the Sportsnationals, in the late 70's, there was a sign posted on the return "road SS/AA turn here".
NHRA did not, at that time, disqualify any cars. They did learn a LOT about the cars by having them all sitting at the same place, at the same time. I expect it allowed NHRA to determine the cars that were constructed to the extremes of the rules and address technical discrepancies from there.
The FS cars that come with CNC'd heads certainly need to be held to a more finite set of standards than 60's and 70's products. I have a story about C/SM and Chev 461 heads that's too long to relate here.