We need a new "instant" trigger!

[Alan Roehrich]

Originally Posted by jimi

this is not i am telling you what to do but, the last few years i have been fishing and hunting and playing football baseball working taking care of my dad you all know life priorities,try it some time and your perspective and everyones perspective on class racing will change! for me to do it like i used to 10 to 12 nhra races a year with my present mind set toward nhra things would need to change, i still have that fire inside me that wants to do nothing but dragrace but nhra "enhanced" me in 2002 and it changed me forever, as for bracket racing get off your high horse and this goes out to all stock super stock racers "WE ALL ARE BRACKET RACERS", every one needs to go to your local tack and look at bracket cars today there is no cheap cars anymore, to think week in week out bracket guys are cheap is an insult to all of them! i do plenty of work on those cars and engines and they spend five times as much as us s/ss dicks! so dont try to minimize bracket racing it is what it has been for 40 years in s/ss and i think it is time for some kind of overhaul.

p.s. you do bracket race all the time,

p.s.s in 22 years of racing my stocker i have had exactly 2 heads up runs during eliminations .........

No, we do not bracket race all the time.

I used to bracket race. I grew to hate it, and quit. It only costs a fortune to go fast and win if you want it to.

We've had several heads up races, win, lose, or draw, they were fun, and the best part of all of it. No heads up on Sunday is the absolute worst idea possible.

You CAN spend as much as you WANT on anything. I've built plenty of good race winning bracket engines for a lot less than a really good competitive Stock Eliminator engine in a hotly contested class, with a fairly popular combination.

To run AA, A, B, or C, you MUST have a serious piece, that will cost you plenty, regardless of make. Unless you intend to go home every time you get a heads up race. I can build a big block Chevy bracket engine that will run 9 flat in a 2500 pound car for 1/2 what you can build one that will run 1.1 under in Stock.

Oh, and I hunt and fish fairly regularly. Went fishing last Sunday, can't go today due to other commitments. Hunted every weekend in February but one.