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goinbroke2 · 10-28-2011, 10:48 AM

Guys, I fully understand where your coming with this but think of it this way.
Say it's 1950, hp is what average 150-200? Times are...18 sec for stockers?
1960 things pick up and you got 400+ hp and 13 sec
1970 450hp and 11's
1980 450 and technology for 10's
1990 etc
2000 etc
2011 you have 500+hp from the factory and street cars that will run way below what was even imagined. Yes, you CAN walk into a dealership and buy a 750hp supersnake mustang! Add the technology and you do have 8's at 160mph.
They are still "stock". Heck you could take a street driven shelby and with stocker suspension mods run 10's.

So, what do you do?
Well, you make classes to fit the new cars. Yes they are still "stock". Did the guy running a 15 sec V/SA complain when the A/SA went from 12sec to 11, to 10's? No.

All I'm saying is, the factory equipment and technology available today is lightyears beyond what was available only a short time ago. Can you imagine in 1970 having a blown, cnc ported, 4 valve, ohc engine with rods that would spin to 8000? That's top fuel technology at that time. Today it goes for groceries.

Another 20 years and we'll have 3L engines with 600hp@8500 in econo boxes. What then? Sorry, you go faster than the vaunted 68 hemi so your not a real car or not allowed or whatever?

Time moves on.......

10-28-2011, 10:48 AM	#3
goinbroke2 Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: NS CANADA Posts: 892 Likes: 1,637 Liked 393 Times in 153 Posts	Re: The state of NHRA Guys, I fully understand where your coming with this but think of it this way. Say it's 1950, hp is what average 150-200? Times are...18 sec for stockers? 1960 things pick up and you got 400+ hp and 13 sec 1970 450hp and 11's 1980 450 and technology for 10's 1990 etc 2000 etc 2011 you have 500+hp from the factory and street cars that will run way below what was even imagined. Yes, you CAN walk into a dealership and buy a 750hp supersnake mustang! Add the technology and you do have 8's at 160mph. They are still "stock". Heck you could take a street driven shelby and with stocker suspension mods run 10's. So, what do you do? Well, you make classes to fit the new cars. Yes they are still "stock". Did the guy running a 15 sec V/SA complain when the A/SA went from 12sec to 11, to 10's? No. All I'm saying is, the factory equipment and technology available today is lightyears beyond what was available only a short time ago. Can you imagine in 1970 having a blown, cnc ported, 4 valve, ohc engine with rods that would spin to 8000? That's top fuel technology at that time. Today it goes for groceries. Another 20 years and we'll have 3L engines with 600hp@8500 in econo boxes. What then? Sorry, you go faster than the vaunted 68 hemi so your not a real car or not allowed or whatever? Time moves on.......