Horsepower on tuesday

[jmcarter]

Originally Posted by MR DERBY CITY

It’s a 360 Jim, and she will be a lil heavier come Tuesday......

Johnny Fisher’s old car, crazy fast with a Bruce Parsons bullet.

[GTX JOHN]

If it is in I/SA........The Mirada is 360 Small Cam @ 270 HP

The same engine in my Aerodynamic Aspen Wagon is 289 HP

[Charley Downing]

Can someone from NHRA please tell us why runs of -1.20 are not an automatic rod and piston teardown. If you single handily put power on a combination NHRA should at least take the time to check and confirm every spec on the car is correct. So far this year there have been 8 different -1.20 runs at national events and points meets and not on Rod and Piston check.

[Billy Nees]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

Can someone from NHRA please tell us why runs of -1.20 are not an automatic rod and piston teardown. If you single handily put power on a combination NHRA should at least take the time to check and confirm every spec on the car is correct. So far this year there have been 8 different -1.20 runs at national events and points meets and not on Rod and Piston check.

Charlie Bob, that's simple. NHRA won't spend the monies to have enough people on hand to handle a race as it is let alone having KNOWLEDGEABLE, HANDS-ON people capable of doing tear downs.
The capable people at VMP this weekend were too busy doing every thing else involved in putting on the race to tear down anything.
But you're right, it should be mandatory, it affects too many other people to let slide.

[Charley Downing]

BS
At points meets it should be the head tech officials job to teardown and national events every time I ride by the tech trailer there’s alway 2-3 officials standing under the semi truck awning doing nothing. Especially on Thursday’s and fridays of national events.

[Adub464Q]

I can only speak on behalf of the Marlow '69 camaro which added hp last week. Butch was driving it this week and they did pull him over after round 1 to check the carb and look at numbers on the intake and head.

It was probably a week late, but that did happen for the interest in fair reporting. Only the carb was taken off the car.

[jmcarter]

Originally Posted by GTX JOHN

If it is in I/SA........The Mirada is 360 Small Cam @ 270 HP

The same engine in my Aerodynamic Aspen Wagon is 289 HP

Well, that’s all changing now. Pitted next to Fisher at Atlanta a few years ago and visited with him many other times, including during his Indy class win in K when the motor had over 300 runs on it. He protected that combination well but can’t fault Parker for letting it air out.

[Mark Callanan]

Originally Posted by Charley Downing

BS
At points meets it should be the head tech officials job to teardown and national events every time I ride by the tech trailer there’s alway 2-3 officials standing under the semi truck awning doing nothing. Especially on Thursday’s and fridays of national events.

Charlie

Thats very harsh
The NHRA tech guys from Division 1 work their asses off
Very hard working bunch all of them ......

[Race Clean]

Originally Posted by Allen Sherman

I wasn’t “trying” to get HP on the combination. I had it weighted down, timing out and other measures trying to run about 1.05-1.10 under
This was the 9th run ever on the car and it’s been giving us fits. It left extremely lazy and I figured no way it was going fast enough to worry.
The combination has TONS of untapped potential left.
I’m not upset about it because I know we have more left in
Considering it’s been hit with 33hp before I ever touched it

WOW .. talk about a Car in the wrong Class!!

[Charley Downing]

Mark for 30 plus years NHRA official's would tear down the winner and runner up at each race. So theirs tons of time after the race to teardown cars if time/man power during the race is a issue. Mark I do agree there are quite a few tech guys at the div level that bust there butts all weekend long.