[B Parker]

[QUOTE=Billy Nees;656483]*Back on the soapbox!

Barry (and anyone else), regarding this list of rule changes that you're talking about, everything that you've brought up here benefited your combo either in a performance, reliability or availability/ affordability way. Realistically, this list pretty much only benefits the Manufacturer's higher performance combos.
How do YOU think that the NHRA should be assigning higher HP ratings to these combos that benefit much more from the changes than the combos that benefit very little if at all? We ARE after all running in an Eliminator with a QUALIFIED field (the premise of this thread IS thinking about Indy!) and it hardly seems "fair" to be giving one combo a distinct advantage over another! We all should be getting the same chance to qualify based on parity and (right now) there is none.
Please, enlighten me.[/QUOTE



H#ll no way Glen. I would like to see no more rule changes for a few years.

Billy the difference in my combo that you like to bring up is the car was offered by GM back in 70. My heads came from GM and so did my intake. Yes they were made by Edelbrock but EdeIbrock bought the rights to them. Way beyond my control. They weren't some aftermarket head and intake that was just put on the list. They both have GM part #'s. I understand what you're saying and I agree with some of it. But if you think my combo is so great, I know where there is a 70 Camaro. Remember I bought the car to begin with even though I didn't really want it. I think it was my quarter rocket. I figure the car cost 20 grand at the most after I sold some of the spare parts it came with. At that price I just couldn't pass it up. Would you have bought it at that price even though it's not your cup of tea? Why don't you get pistons approved for your combo. How fast do you think you could go if you spent some money on it? Sell a couple of those cows. BP