Do you believe that the NHRA techs are doing their job?

[art leong]

Originally Posted by SS/GSI

I believe that NHRA has become more about getting your entry fee than making sure your car is properly built. Between not paying attention to bogus combinations (more refactoring sessions needed), letting cars run much heavier than they should be, for their class, to allowing borderline Pro Stockers to run GT & Modified. Even true Super Stockers aren't being policed for proper emblems, trim, etc... Weight breaks are not being atheard to, as well as GT cars and Stockers are not claiming the car in the proper years, based on the tail lights, skirt kits, hoods, etc...It is time for NHRA to wake up! Most of the sportsman drivers have been in the sport for decades and remember when the smallest detail would get you DQed. Teardown has become a joke, and when they do find something, they would rather change the rule than loose your money. The way the car counts are today they need every entry they can get. However I leave you ith this, economies have risen, fallen and risen again. Maybe the car counts are low because the aging population of Stock and Super Stock owners are fed up of all the things mentioned above and not because of the natural cycle of economics.

As far as the good old days go The tech inspectors did a lot more in tech than they do now. Most of the time they check the safety equipment And not much else.
Years ago they got carried away with the nit-picking I remember a car not being allowed to run because the emblem on the glove box was wrong. Thank God it isn't like that anymore.
They allowed me to run my fiberglass fenders with louvers for 2 years. Then bitc**ed about it when I went to Englishtown, Told me not to come back with them. The louvers went into a dead air space, absolutly no advantage.
So now I bought some steel fenders (3 pounds lighter than the fiberglass). Am in the process of painting them to match the car.
I'll have to thank them for making my car pickup half a second the next time I get to an NHRA track. LOL
I always thank them for the presents they give.