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Re: Horsepower on tuesday
Johnny Fisher’s old car, crazy fast with a Bruce Parsons bullet.
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Re: Horsepower on tuesday
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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thats very harsh The NHRA tech guys from Division 1 work their asses off Very hard working bunch all of them ......
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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.
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