AHFS does it really work and how!!!

[SDmopar]

Originally Posted by TOSTO RACING

You would sure hope that cars get looked at before hp ,but just not the case in todays NHRA, at least in my instance when I owned the Nova . The car that got the hit was never looked at, not even a carb inspection, and that's a fact ! Even though I'm sure it was legal, that is not the point here I'm trying to make. So I emailed NHRA and got a response I wasn't very happy with at all ,said they will try and do better.. I think before any HP is given to anyone the car that triggers the hp hit needs a full teardown period. I mean wtf what are we doing, if we aren't looking at cars before a combo gets ruined Hp wise???? Are we on an honor system, lol lol , yeah cause that works well in all my life experiences thus far lmao!!! I mean what they need to do is bring back tech that's where I would start , but they get rid of all the experienced guys wtf? Just tells me they don't give two ****s about it.

I really do not know what the answer is ,but if they are giving hp to a combo without looking at a car first then why even have a rule book and in a REAL rule book, there is no GRAY areas, because well, that's so and so and he or she has been racing forever and blah blah blah. ????????? Stick with an NHRA rule book and a lot of problems are solved quickly ,but someone needs to enforce it! And now a days who's that gonna be with no tech??


I mean don't get me wrong, I love running NHRA stock eliminator, I just wish rules and procedures were followed better.

You are spot on. Unfortunately I don?t foresee NHRA making the investment it takes to enforce the current rules. Now we are at the point where many combos have received unverified HP. So you have Combos that may have been hit that legally can?t run with the class average. The automatic system seems to be the best data driven system to monitor the combos. It could certainly be better and tweaked. The issue is that with out verification of the legality of some of the hits you take out combinations for good. This is where there needs to be a system for evaluating the cars that are off the class average. I?m not talking about the slow cars in the class. Average the 3 fastest cars in each combo. If they are a tenth apart rake 5hp off as long as there is enough runs to merit an average. This would allow the margin of error and lack of teardown to moderate the destruction of combos that people actually try to make fast. In a perfect world teardown every car before it gets hp. I?m new to this game but I?m sure that hasn?t happened ever.