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Originally Posted by Doug Hoven
Early this year the NHRA found what they believe to be more accurate shipping weights for pretty much every car across the board. Some moved a few pounds, others moved enough to change classes. That change lasted about a day before the NHRA decided to take back the change for the season. Haven't heard a word about whether they are going to make the changes for 2023 or not, so for now I wouldn't worry too much about it. There's a thread on all of that on here somewhere. All of these tech related changes can be found at nhraracer.com
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In many cases the shipping weight used by NHRA back in the day were furnished by the Manufacture..
In some cases it was in the manufactures competitive interest to use a " different" shipping weight .
Fast forward to today and now
many are known to be incorrect . People built combos based these NHRA HP to weight info.
Does it matter?, To Some very much so. Others not so much.
I would be in favor of , if your current natural class falls within
.10 to the next natural class , up or down, you can chose to go up or down to change the natural class you fall into. .
So for an example, if your car currently is shown as a Natural M car at 14.05. You could move to 13.95 and race L, M or N if you wanted to, Instead of M, N and O. Currently at 14.05.
It could help those that could drop to N as the safety rules change at N and below, saving $$.
If you run a 2 barrel combo , they respond with a greater performance gain the lighter the vehicle.
Just a thought to create more happy NHRA racers.
Steve Teeter Stk/ SS 620
B/SA, G/SA, M/SA