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11-17-2016, 06:10 AM | #21 |
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Supposedly there is a new spec Goodyear tire for 2017. Anyone know why? BTW all of you who think the factory supercars are the answer......someone will get their supercharged car to run the fastest with as little wheelstand as possible.....then what? Also while 8 second runs are ok at the track, they make for bad TV (yawn).
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11-17-2016, 08:37 AM | #22 |
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Re: Pro Stock weight
Guess they're going back to front with GM...as for their (re: Jeggie) role in J&J losing the Mopar backing in the first place...karma is a b..ch. Lot of hubbub though since NHRA has pretty much killed PS anyway, gets very little time on the FS1 telecasts, simply too much to fit in since we have to know which Kardashian the Force girls like, how a Dodge FC stacks up against a Camaro FC (really?), the travails of Leah, ad nauseum...ok, rant over.
http://www.nhra.com/story/2016/11/16...-ways-in-2017/
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11-18-2016, 01:14 PM | #24 |
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I believe AJ had his best year ,as in performance advantage , on his championship a few years back. That was with hemi 99 stuff.
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11-18-2016, 08:38 PM | #25 |
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Sure about that? You know Alan Johnson well? The cylinder head guy that did most of the Pro Stock heads at the time Johnson was the fast guy, told a friend of mine, who's heads he also did, (I was standing there) that he used the same CNC program to cut the Dodge & Chevy intake ports. They flowed the same. Don't see how that could work with a Hemi.
I recently talked to one of the top Pro Stock cylinder head men (different one now) about how the MOPARs are down on power. I asked him if those new Hemi heads they have run now can be made to flow we well as the Chevy heads they used to run. (Only place it could be) The man told me "Of course not, that's why we can't make the same power."
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Yep. I'm sure. By 2012 the p5 (or hemi 99) was the only legal head for a Dodge. Just search a pic of his 2012 car. But, I agree something is off with that motor. It hasn't taken to F.I. and the RPM limit.
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11-19-2016, 12:50 AM | #27 |
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FWIW, here's a comparison between the two NHRA Pro Stock eras:
NHRA Pro Stock Championships during the 500"/2350LB era (1982-2016) GM 25/35 71.4% 6x Warren Johnson 4x Jeg Coughlin Jr. 4x Greg Anderson 3x Jason Line 3x Lee Shepherd 2x Erica Enders-Stevens 2x Jim Yates 1x Mike Edwards FORD 5/35 14.3% 5x Bob Glidden MOPAR 5/35 14.3% 3x Darrell Alderman 1x Allen Johnson 1x Jeg Coughlin Jr. (2013 only) FORD + MOPAR combined 9/35 25.7% * * * NHRA Pro Stock Championships during the weight-break era (1970-1981) FORD 7/12 58.3% 5x Bob Glidden 1x Wayne Gapp 1x Don Nicholson GM 3/12 25.0% 1x Bill Jenkins 1x Larry Lombardo 1x Lee Shepherd MOPAR 2/12 16.7% 1x Mike Fons 1x Ronnie Sox |
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I miss the days when a canted valve Ford engine had a .5 lb. penality
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