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Old 04-27-2009, 04:02 PM   #11
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Has anyone raced with the NMCA that has an IHRA / NHRA stocker or super stocker? How well were you treated?
Larry, give them a try, you may never race NHRA again.
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Old 04-27-2009, 04:13 PM   #12
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Go to a NMRA event 90% of our heads-up racers are stick and do not use a 2-step. Sorry you feel that way. I'm a stick racer myself and do not use a 2-step. Sorry we can't make everyone happy but we try.
The rules says no starting line rev limiter ,I doesnt say two step..Elaborate please .Are u saying you have no rev limiter???Sticks leaving off Imagination ?? It looks like a lot of fun.Thanks in Advance!1
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Old 04-27-2009, 04:31 PM   #13
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[QUOTE=Jeff Swanson;117539]Larry, give them a try, you may never race NHRA again.[/Q
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Old 04-27-2009, 05:22 PM   #14
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What did the stick racers (Ronnie Sox, Dyno Don, Strickler, etc. do) before all that electronic crap was ever invented?
Don't forget , it was a 5 amber tree back then. You had a little more time to get the RPM steady.
If you can come out, pedal on the mat ,it shouldn't matter, though.
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Old 04-27-2009, 05:59 PM   #15
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They looked at the tach and used the right foot as a control.
Thats how its done.....I raced nothing but 4 speeds in the 60's and 70's (except for one 65 426 Street Wedge Plymouth) WITHOUT electronic aids. The last was a SS/I STICK (Chrysler A-833 trans) 68 Camaro until 78. Then I went to a glide (no trans brake or 2-step) to keep the 12 bolt alive a little longer. We were not allowed Danas and 9" fords in a Chevy back then.

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Old 04-27-2009, 06:18 PM   #16
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Yeah, I drove one once or twice myself without those starting line aids.....
Here's what you do:

Come out of your burnout ( which also didnt have a rev limiter)
Stage car
Look at that real big thing with numbers from 0-10,000
If you want to leave at say..... 6800, then press down on your gas pedal untill the pointer thingy on that big round thing is right at 6800, then DO NOT press pedal further. Hold it there untill the tree comes down and you want to go.... then.... and this is the most important part.... take your foot off the clutch pedal and the car will go.

*sigh* Dont know how we all did it without todays technology.
Thanks for the advice . I see why you are driving a automatic .Bunch of Wise Asses

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Old 04-27-2009, 06:22 PM   #17
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Yeah, I drove one once or twice myself without those starting line aids.....
Here's what you do:

Come out of your burnout ( which also didnt have a rev limiter)
Stage car
Look at that real big thing with numbers from 0-10,000
If you want to leave at say..... 6800, then press down on your gas pedal untill the pointer thingy on that big round thing is right at 6800, then DO NOT press pedal further. Hold it there untill the tree comes down and you want to go.... then.... and this is the most important part.... take your foot off the clutch pedal and the car will go.

*sigh* Dont know how we all did it without todays technology.
I raced stick in the "early" years and this may be hard to believe by some but after awhile you ALMOST didn't need the tach as you could tell by the sound of the motor where your RPM was at. Just a quick glance at the tach and then concentrate on leaving on the fourth bulb! (showing my age....lol)
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Old 04-27-2009, 06:26 PM   #18
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Yeah, I drove one once or twice myself without those starting line aids.....
Here's what you do:

Come out of your burnout ( which also didnt have a rev limiter)
Stage car
Look at that real big thing with numbers from 0-10,000
If you want to leave at say..... 6800, then press down on your gas pedal untill the pointer thingy on that big round thing is right at 6800, then DO NOT press pedal further. Hold it there untill the tree comes down and you want to go.... then.... and this is the most important part.... take your foot off the clutch pedal and the car will go.

*sigh* Dont know how we all did it without todays technology.
LOL.........My kind of racer.
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Old 04-27-2009, 06:36 PM   #19
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If you notice its just the younger generation that really dont know. Its what us older guys got used to doing. Drag racing has evolved to where some couldnt race with out all the "bells and whistles such as 2- steps, air or elec. shifters, slider clutches and we even had to really use the clutch to shift gears when the pointy needle was on the right number (or by ear) instead of a shift light.....imagine that !
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Old 04-27-2009, 06:39 PM   #20
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I looked into running NMCA ...In your rules Starting line rev limiters prohibited. NO THANKS i'll go blow my sh!t up somewhere else...Im mean really wtf kinda rules is that ..Leave on the highside of a stick you may understand if you every drove one...

I drove a stick car nearly 30 years ago, and last year I drove one again. I've driven them both ways, it can be done, and it can be done fairly easily. The two step doesn't make it possible, it just makes it considerably easier. Lee Shepherd hated a two step, he said the weird noise wrecked his concentration.
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