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Originally Posted by CBS jr
Hey Mike....WE ARE NOT RACING IN THE 80'S ANYMORE!!! Get up to date!!!
STOP WHINNING and get your bucket of bolts out and show us how you did it in the 80's.
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I didn't think I was whining, just having an interesting discussion! My car will be out there soon enough.
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Originally Posted by John Quinn
What makes .90 classes hard to watch is not the delay boxes, it is the size of the delay. Lower the indexes so that the cars do not appear to break off the line and they will be much more interesting to watch, maybe even more fun to do.
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My guess is that if you lowered the indexes, you'd still get guys trying to be the top speed in the class. In other words, they would just find the next class that they can make the weight limit and still run ludicrous speeds.
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Originally Posted by crewchiefpro
Timing chains and weird popping noises were the main reasons I heard. Since they did not have diapers back then NHRA hated to clean up the oil when the timing chains broke. I remember one in particular that oiled the track from 200 ft to the turn off. It looked like someone blew the timing cover off with a shotgun.
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Wow, I hadn't heard about that part! I had some friends (John Hyland & family) that ran the stutter boxes until the ban, but I don't recall them destroying anything like that. They always had top dollar stuff, so they probably had Jesels or something which took the abuse.
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Originally Posted by CBS
Its a natural progression to go faster.....live with it....We didn't buy big Reher Morrison engines overnight....we worked up to them....little by little....we started with a 427....and every year we stepped it up.... I can't go the same speed year after year...but some people don't mind it....(there are plenty of slower cars that are competitive)......the timers or engine size is not the problem...its going to the races and payouts................if you want to race in the past....go ahead....its not my problem........ ....Lets talk about something that is constructive...like payouts....class rotation...schedules.....points formats...etc...the timer discussion is a waste of keystrokes...8.90 and 9.90 are the strongest of the classes in NHRA...go to the super stock forum and suggest delay boxes.....see how that goes for ya...
CBS
(you can see I'm a little stressed these days)
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I agree with the desire to go faster, but we all have our financial limits (or at least I do). The part I don't like about the timers is that it requires you to spend more money to be competitive in the class. In other words, it provides a distinct advantage to those who spend the most money. As you probably remember from the old days of Super-Gas, there were plenty of lower-dollar racers doing well. Sure, there were plenty of high-dollar cars being towed behind Class 6 trucks, but there were several people with open trailers and low-buck cars who did quite well (Dan Divita, Kris LaPoint, Seipel family).
It is interesting that the poll is running almost even. Maybe NHRA can create a new/old class, kind of like "Coke Classsic", with rules to have us racing the old way
Regards,