Wow I Can Use A 3Spd

[tim worner]

I'm so glad the brains at NHRA are going to allow me to put a 3spd behind my 327. I can't wait to go to ATI,TCI,COAN or ROSSLER and order my new unit. Also don't forget I need a new shifter and related hardware. Of course I will have to learn how to drive the car all over again,not that I was that sharp before. Maybe I will need a new cam I don;t know. Maybe a new convertor, I don't know. What I really don't know is WHERE AM I GONG TO GET ANOTHER $6000 to cover the cost of all of this plus get the car ready for next year. Maybe NHRA should hand out sponcer coupons with the new rule book While everyone has been worried about the the 1.15 and hp this gets put on us. I have but 1 question--------WHY?

[Jeff Lee]

Don't forget you can sell your old PG and parts to....um, um, well somebody might buy it!
With the proceeds from the PG you can also do that valve job you've also always wanted.
Good luck in '08!

[Jim Wahl]

Lemme see if I have this right. For years guys with your type of combo have complained about not being able to run a 3 speed. NHRA said "NO" because it never came in the car. OK, fast forward to now. Now you get your wish, they allow a 3 speed, any 3 speed, in your combo. Nothing more to bitch about right? NOPE! Now not only do you want the tranny but you want them to GIVE it to you so it won't cost you any money to take advantage of the gift they have given you! I don't think the rules says you MUST change to a 3 speed, it just says they will allow it. Geeeesh. Jim

[JIM MEREDITH]

I'm not one to jump out there and spend $6000 to $8000 for a new trans, and related items, shifter, air bottle, etc. God only knows what will be next, but like you said I've complained for years, "if only I could run a 3 speed instead of a pg I might go a little faster. I think the chevelles may be the only 2 sp left in the class. wooooooooooooooo haaaaaaaaaa can't wait. oh yeah, I forgot about our other good fortune, new brake buttons, damn, just when will all the fun stop.

[greg fulk]

Hey Jim $6000=.15! .......looks good dosen't it? But hey may just be enough to blast Zack's ***!!! LOL

[bill dedman]

I just wonder, as knee jerk as NHRA Tech is about the "LETTER of the LAW", as to where all these alleged "Three Speed Powerglides" are coming from, that the Division Five Director has mandated.

He never mentioned Turbo Hydros...

Is there a letter from Zora? Or, Louis Chevrolet?? Or, Marvin Ripes???

I'll never understand how NHRA can be so overtly hyper-critical of techinical issues like valve sizes, that they will toss a car out for a valve that is a few thousandrths of an inch UNDERSIZE in a teardown, but hire someone to write documents that need to be critically correct, i.e., new rules such as this, and put someone in charge of wording the document with such a flagrant disregard for accuracy as to make it genuinely laughable.

Powerglides have been around since 1950.... How can anyone even REMOTELY concerned with drag racing on ANY level, not be aware that they are, and have ALWAYS BEEN two-speed transmissions???

How, indeed...

Guess that's why National DRAGSTER has half a page of corrections to the rulebook just a month or so, after it comes out. Do they have ANYONE proofreading it BEFORE it goes to press??

Apparently not...

What a shame...

[JIM MEREDITH]

hey Greg, that's what were talking about my friend, kinda wondering what a second gear would feel like. looks like I'll have to return all those christmas presents for a cash refund. Now, I gotta figure out which one to buy, is that why they call this the silly season?

[tim worner]

Who has been wishing for a 3spd. Not me, not any of the racers I have talked to about this new rule change, How did this change come about and why? I never saw anything to "vote" on about a transmission change. Who makes these changes without racer input. I would consider this a major performance change in s/s eliminator. What about the racers who can't afford to make the change? Do thay just sit back and take a big negative performance hit? My original question was why was the change made. It certainly wasn't because a few people "complained". How about giving the racers who want to continue using the glide a 100lb weight break. The reacers I talked to that now have a 3spd sure did'nt want to see this new rule. So why was it done and who did it?

[Jeff Lee]

I've seen reference to allowing 3 speeds in lieu of 2 speeds (auto), lifting the requirement that cars race with the OEM mandated tranny only (i.e, '68 Z-28 allowed an auto trans) and also combining sticks and auto's for the better part of a year, if ot 2 years on this forum. Guess you need to take it seriously when you see something brought up!

[Stk4405]

Originally Posted by tim worner

How about giving the racers who want to continue using the glide a 100lb weight break.

Sounds like a good idea. I should have built a bracket car with a 383 chevy motor in a ford mustang body with a mopar transmission. With all these rules changes, it would be legal S/S car in about 2 years.