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Originally Posted by art leong
Well all sarcasm aside. I don't see any problem with the new cars running (I do think they deserve a bit of horsepower, how much I'm not sure).
Back in the sixties and seventies, when most of the fast stockers were made there was little government intrusion (just a little smog stuff).
Now, it is a whole different story. The C.A.F.E standards would make it all but impossible to allow any of the Drag Pack cars on the street. Do you realize how many Caliber's they have to sell so they can sell one SRT8 Challenger?
The forced air Mustangs might be a different story. I think you can get pretty good mileage as long as you aren't on the throttle
Back in the early years you had to know somebody to get a real high performance car (I'm talking Mopar here). Now all you have to do is pay for them. They will sell one to anybody that wants one.
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Art, all they have to do, and it has been proposed, is have NHRA create an "allowance" in the shipping weight for all of the safety and emissions equipment for the newer performance cars. There are a
ton of performance engines in regular production cars sold to the general public for street use. They don't have to create bogus combinations with BS HP factors. Simply take around 15% or so off the shipping weight of the new cars. Maybe 20%, that would get a 3800 pound Challenger or Camaro or Mustang down to 3040 pounds for crying out loud. Add a factory rated real production 400 plus HP engine and you have an upper class stocker that has plenty of potential and is in keeping with the original intent and spirit of Stock Eliminator. That's a 400 plus HP engine and a shipping weight of 3210 pounds including driver, sounds like a competitive A/S or A/SA car to me.
The idea that the OEM's cannot produce a normally aspirated performance engine that meets emissions and fuel consumptions standards is completely false. GM has been producing 400HP plus rated 346 cubic inch production street engines for around a decade. Those are engines that meet emissions and fuel consumption standards and make over 1HP per cubic inch doing it.
And it isn't the fault of anyone but the OEM's that they're too stupid to build performance cars that don't weigh 4000 pounds and don't have at least 1000 pounds of over priced unnecessary options they force on buyers. If you can build a $12K Cobalt with nothing but an AM/FM CD player and AC, they can build a $20K 3200 pound Camaro with the same damned equipment. All any of the OEM's have to do is want to.