2011 ahfs

[Angelo DiTocco]

Originally Posted by Bob Pagano

2. Is it fair to the racers who went out and spent the money on a new car based upon the existing rules?

Is it fair to all the cars that have 50-60-70 thou in their combo's Bad choice of words....Put them ALL in FX and in one year they will be ready for whereever.

I actualy like the new cars and I agree that technology must somehow be partnered with corporate marketing in order to move forward however..................

I gotta agree w/ Bob here - The EFI cars had their own classes for a few years - knocked heads w/ eachother - got HP - and were reabsorbed into traditional stock classes.

No one shed any tears for those car owners..... over the fact that those people had built "legal" cars according to the "existing" rules. They got separated out... and I don't think anyone could argue that it didn't work. The situation w/ the new cars is no different. I have no skin in this game... yet.... but I don't buy that argument. I know the NHRA has their hands full - and I understand what that means - but I don't think it would take a team of people to replicate what was done in the past w/ the EFI cars.

[Craig Couris]

FYI- The EFI cars had ten years worth of significant advantage over the carburetor cars such as the 396 / 325, 455 Olds to name just a few. Does everyone want to repeat this?

[Bob Mulry]

My crystal ball also said:

ALL future records will be exactly .99 under the index......

[K Stubbs]

Originally Posted by Bob Mulry

My crystal ball also said:

ALL future records will be exactly .99 under the index......

Good point Bob, exactly what I was thinking. If you look at most records, you will have to go faster than this to even set one. Which will get you looked at and possible hp. Bad idea all the way around.

[Jim Carter]

Originally Posted by Bob Pagano

2. Is it fair to the racers who went out and spent the money on a new car based upon the existing rules?

Is it fair to all the cars that have 50-60-70 thou in their combo's Bad choice of words....Put them ALL in FX and in one year they will be ready for whereever.

Bob:
The powers have chosen to, once again, ignore the real root of the problem amd are now getting the S/SS community to focus on the updating AHFS system, as though that is the real problem. You, Craig, Angelo and Wade have pulled back the fluff and exposed this effort for what it is: "Window Dressing." "Smoke and mirrors folks!!"
Underated crate motor cars (and non crate motor cars) that don't exist, lexan windows, bogus intakes, fiberglass fenders, two speed transmissions and all the rest of the rule breakers, that have been passed off as OK for new age stockers and are now supposed to be accepted. The latest atrocity is the Viper motor into a Challenger as a stocker. And on top of that, we should be "thankful" that the big three support pro teams. Why?
Perhaps you, Mike Ficacci and Craig Couris should be on that committee.
JC