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Originally Posted by Dave Noll
I'm curious how this engine started @ 164 hp and is now factored @ 240 hp. Has somebody run this succesfully to get the # to 240 or was this just an NHRA "THING"?  |
It received it's 240 rating based on an "overrated" gross rating from the late 60s and early 70s. When the manufacturers went to a net HP rating in 1972? it put NHRA in a position of having to assign a realistic number to these combos so they looked at the nearest gross rated combo that they could find and rated them from that.
On a lighter note, they are a lot more receptive to giving these combos back HP than they have ever been.