Two things that really pisses me off about todays stock elimintor

[laura Parker]

1 The AHFS. This system has taken a class that for years was performance based and turned it into a touchy feely eliminator. Now children lets make it fair for everyone. I know Johnny hasn't a clue how to make his car go fast and he is not really interested in learning . And Bob won't work on his combo and try anything new. Yes and Tom can't spend the money. You know we wouldn't want to hurt their feelings. So sorry we are just going to have to punish you for working on your combo and spending money to go faster. What a blinking joke. Case in point. Fred Hensons run last year at Houston. More than 1.4 under. I tip my hat to Fred what a great run!! I wish I was there to shake his hand. The air was great but Fred also works hard and spends the money. When your in air like that why shouldn't you be able to flex your muscle. But the AHFS added the HP to the hemi's and screwed that combo for most of the others that run it. My combo the 396/375 hp. I am sure we will be getting hit at mid season with hp. There are to many of us that run it going fast. It's a great combo but not the best one right now for the class. I also tip my hat to John Shaul. Indy class win in A/SA last year and now the Vegas thromp. John you have one bad *** car. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy and one we all know works his *** off. John has the fastest A car in the country! Bill Hawks 67 Shelby. Yes Bill I hate to admitt it but you have the fastest B car in the country. ( I know I could go faster in that combo but I am stuck with this turd Camero). But because there are more of us running the 396 combo we will be the ones getting the hp. We are already two steps behind these guys but we will get punished. Not that I want to see them get hp (well maybe the Shelby could use about 20 LOL) but now we will be that much further behind. I am sure we can all site other problems that we have AHFS. Now that we have reps why don't they scrap the current AHFS and come up with a new system. Or at least look at the other combo's running the same class before they decide if HP is needed. Barry


Kenny where the hell is spell check on this site

[Jim Cimarolli]

Barry,

If they hit me, the iron head 396-375 this go round, I'm going to boycott the NHRA until they get this crap straight.... Mark my word.

Jim Cimarolli

[Bud Lefevre]

and what's number 2 ?

Lol

[George Fitzpatrick]

Good post Barry.
Fred?s run was unbelievable. When he made that run his weight was 3700 lbs. (440 hp). Can you imagine what he would have run at 3600 lbs. (430 hp). But one run should not make a combination obsolete, and I?m not just being selfish. I don?t think any combination (Hemi, Chevy?s, Wedges and yes, even the Ford?s) should be affected by just one very fast run under ballistic weather conditions. We need human intervention, some of us do not do this for the money, we do it for fun. Barry it would be a shame for your combo to be hit, I know the feeling. But hey at least you guys got the better manifold.

[Richard Grant]

Fred's run and the horsepower given to Bruce Noland's combo are just a couple of the items that need to be reversed. Maybe the Sportsman Committee can address these issues.

[seb]

Well, I'm going to add my two cents worth to this and then shut up for awhile.

What the horsepower committee is not taking into account is all the new "enhancements"
that have been allowed the last few years plus all the new radial tires, very expensive 'trick'
lightweight transmission, etc,etc,etc,etc. Plus there needs to be someone at the races
to keep up with how 'good' the air is in certain sessions of time trials,runs,etc.,and allow
for air that is very good.
Take Fred's run at No Problem Raceway last year. The air was -1000 ft.plus on many different
guages. Anybody in their right mind ought to know you don't allow a run under those circumstances
to count for anything. That is at least 2 tenths faster than any air most people will ever see under
normal conditions.
The problem in a nut shell is things have developed thru the years that haven't been taken into
consideration that make cars go faster. That is the first thing that needs to be addressed then
cull out the acid ported heads,etc. and class racing will be back where it ought to be.

[Dick Butler]

Human Intervention in factoring would be nice. Yes. Common sense use of air gauge info would be nice. Yes. Does the current method keep most people from competing in " Shoe polish eliminator" NO. (In no way minimizing fun of Eliminator or importance to our classes)Until the majority of the people push for more "class racing" the errors of the AHFS seem to get a deaf ear.
You are correct Why punish a worker or a believer in performance more than someone who works the Books to find the low factored combo?
Unfortunately I ran back when "a human" factored the cars. (not farmer) A person ran the same car in california and had a habit of "irritating" the tech person with sarcasm when OUR combo got hp. This made the tech person so mad he factored us( me in the mid west) out of competion in class here. We got 25 HP in 6 months. The adgitator got us 10 HP for qualifying number 2 at Phoenix and the number 1 car got nothing because he was "a good guy" to quote the tech person on the phone.
Just to say it can be bad BOTH ways if out of control or unsupervised.Intelligent supervision is definitely needed.

[Lynn A McCarty]

Originally Posted by Bud Lefevre

and what's number 2 ?

See #1 read again.

[Bruce Noland]

The AHFS is mostly a front for business as usual for nhra. Yes, they use the system when a combination has "violated" the AHFS. But then we still have the oh what the hell let's get that guy going on. It would be great if we had stand up men operating the system but we don't. We have some pathetic little person who gets his jollies off by abusing the system and out trust.

Barry,
The best thing to do is lobby for "open" classes at national events. By that I mean, you can run in A/SA in an open category (still with the same rules) but then you would have to put a dial on the car in a race with another non-open A/SA car in the eliminator. Everything else would be the same. Open A/SA cars would run each other as heads up in the eliminator. Yeah, you could get farther up the sheet in open classes and have more fun but nhra isn't going to add any classes so I just wasted a paragraph of your time. Sorry.

Richard,
I appreciate your sense of fair play. Thanks.