It's Time to combine

Originally Posted by billy nees

and while i'm on a roll, either everyone should get aluminium heads or no-one should get them! Mention that to your "buddy" pat!

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[rx dealer]

Originally Posted by Brad Zaskowski

I think the stick and auto's combined would be cool! Especially if it makes class racing more prestigious again and brings in more class paying contingency sponsors. NHRA just needs to do like others have pointed and keep it simple, same hp ratings, and run at the same weights. If they combined and had everyone run at the auto hp ratings and auto indexes it would only affect less than 14% of the racers running stk and SS. Other than 14% more cars in the classes it wouldn’t affect the auto guys, and what do they care if a few stick cars are in their class everyone knows you can't win in a stick car.
As for the auto being better or worse than a stick for a certain combination, deal with it. Yes right now the stick cars have the auto cars covered in SS/AH but when Westcott was running with the automatic the auto cars were faster. If you think the stick is faster man up and put in a stick, if you think the auto is faster and want to turn in your man card go get an automatic.
I don’t think combining the two would do away with the sticks. Pretty much everyone with a stick car right now wouldn’t change if they were given an auto trans.

X 100 well said Brad...everyone knows you can't win in a stick car...LMFAO!!..Luke SS 311

[Jeff Lee]

Apparently Billy has never read a SAE publication from 1966-1972. Yes, it's been on the books for 40+ years. You do know what an SAE publication is, right? Nuff said.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

Apparently Billy has never read a SAE publication from 1966-1972. Yes, it's been on the books for 40+ years. You do know what an SAE publication is, right? Nuff said.

Ya know, as a matter of fact I do know what an SAE publication is! I also have a close friend that I went to high school with from 1968-72 whose dad owned an AMC dealership! And ya know, while we were all fooling around with our Chevys, Mopars and FFFords, he was fooling around with Javalins and AMXs and he has never ever heard of a 66-72 AMC with a 780 Holley or a .477 lift cam BUT he's going to spend some time going through some of Dads old paperwork and if he finds anything interesting, he'll get back to me.
In the mean time, I'd like to see these papers that you seem to have. Oh and your birth certificate too!

[Andrew Hill]

Originally Posted by Jeff Lee

Apparently Billy has never read a SAE publication from 1966-1972. Yes, it's been on the books for 40+ years. You do know what an SAE publication is, right? Nuff said.

One would think its more important for it to be on the car as it rolled out of the factory than for it to be in the books.

[Billy Nees]

Andrew, would you like to race a 67 Camaro with a 327/350 motor in it? Well, it's in the early books!

[BlueOval Ralph]

The specs that were used to file the NHRA specs were AMA American Auto Assoc not SAE the reason they are not used today Is it was disbanded in the mid or early 90s when the off shore manufactures moved in in droves.

[Brad Zaskowski]

Where did the thread go about combining sticks and autos??? I believe it has been hijacked.

[Tony Janes]

It ran out of steam.

[Billy Nees]

Sorry for the hijack. I started a new thread "The damage being done"