Lencos in SS

[XSTOCKER]

Hard enough following these long threads as it is…..now us dumb welders have to get out the dictionary and look up words. Thanks Jim
Mike Szcz….

[Mike Taylor 3601]

James,
Did you see former governor Rob on Letterman? Told Letterman he always wanted to be on his show
in the worst way. Dave replied Well your'e on it in the worst way!!!
With clutchless IF YOU HOLD in gear at slow speeds like going to water box as example when
you slow down trans will ratchet on sliders and stay in gear this is barely above idle in low gear, but going down track racing if you lift or blow tires off bad will come out of gear and if you try to put back in goes to high and will wipeout slider and face plate on high gear,when in high gear you can lift off/on gas but have to hold trans in gear.
I don't know about any other stick guys but my hand never leaves the shifter anyway.
I'll give up stick cars when they pry my cold dead fingers off the shifter.
Mike Taylor 3601

[Bub Whitaker]

I'll give up stick cars when they pry my cold dead fingers off the shifter.
Mike Taylor 3601

now thats a diehard stick racer...

[SuperStockDodge]

I don't know about any other stick guys but my hand never leaves the shifter anyway.
I'll give up stick cars when they pry my cold dead fingers off the shifter.
Mike Taylor 3601[/QUOTE]

I second that!

[LB Racing 3179]

For the record, the Cars with fully automatic transmissionwith converter may remove up to 5% OR 250 pounds which ever is less from regular class weight.

[283nova]

Originally Posted by Bub Whitaker

I'll give up stick cars when they pry my cold dead fingers off the shifter.
Mike Taylor 3601...

amen

[Bill Harris]

On another thread Mike Crutchfield, who is a member of the SRAC (remember them?) said that the committee had voted on the clutchless in SS and it was voted down. For those who forgot, the SRAC is supposed to be the sportsman racers representative group to the NHRA guys that actually make the rules. If the clutchless is permitted, it is just another example of the ineffectiveness of the SRAC, the same problem that caused several of the original members of the committee to quit after less than a year since their input was being ignored.

The question posed about where this rule change was coming from is the real issue. This happens time and time again. Who benefits? Who is pushing for the change when the racers representative body has voted it down?

Note that Danny Gracia is mentioned over and over again as the source of the information that the rule will change. Also note that he is not on any of the rules making committees as listed on the NHRA website. So is the situation one where if someone with clout can convince Mr Gracia, it becomes a "done deal'?

[Mark Yacavone]

Nobody's figured this out yet?
Just another step towards combining sticks and automatics .

[bill dedman]

Shoot; just give the sticks clutchless shifting, and some sort of electronic clutch release, and to "level the playing field," give the automatics transbrakes, and lockup convertors...

I'm talking Stock Eliminator, here...

That ought to keep the contingency sponsors happy for awhile... and, everybody will be happier, except the guys who have to quit racing because the increased cost of funding the new-order (read: QUICKER), is impossible, in this down economy....

OH, and NHRA can lay-off even more tech people since they won't have to be policing clutchless 4-speeds and looking for transbrakes and lockup converters (they DO do that, don't they???)

[X-TECH MAN]

Originally Posted by Mark Yacavone

Nobody's figured this out yet?
Just another step towards combining sticks and automatics .

This is NOT a bad thing with current technology.