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Originally Posted by Larry Hill
Could This Happen?
Racer X is sick of getting outrun in Class. His car always looses to the
396/375 Camaro in B/SA, so a plan is devised by someone with plenty of money.
1. Buy a good B/SA 69 Camaro that is a good stock class car.
2. Build a big Big Block, 502?, with all the correct parts showing, heads, carb, manifold.
3. Put car together and secretly go test to get performance high enough to ruin combination for a lifetime.
4. Get some local racer to enter the car at a local points race where AHFS will be in play.
5. Have car pass inspection before first run, weight, fuel, safety belts, and helmet
6. First run blast the index load up and go home
7. Monday AHFS gives 396/375 6.25% additional Horse Power
My question is could NHRA keep this from Happing? With how the rules are written now I do not think so. Our category needs some protection from NHRA Tech Department. Maybe a check list to follow when runs of 1.3 seconds are made during events when the AHFS is in place.
The answer will take some thinking and some work
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I thought about this exact scenario yesterday while reading this thread. One would have to be smart about this and run the car for a while at a safe e.t. before blasting it. I think just showing up and doing it would (hopefully) trigger some warnings in the tech department's heads.
Shy of everyone tearing down prior to an event like it's 1975 again, the only thing I can think of is a random chip draw after the final Q session. Have a racer's meeting, Every racer would sign in and put their name in a bucket. Pick 3-5(?) at random. Those drivers have 10 minutes to report to a teardown location. The downfall of this would be the extent of a teardown that was performed, to where first round may need to be pushed off to the following day. In place of this, NHRA could run an extra round or two of the other sportsman classes that day.
I would hope the threat of being an unlucky random teardown participant would be enough of a deterrent to being caught with a 4.5" crank in their block.