New rules for 2010?

[Sean Cour]

Originally Posted by Casey Miles

When people talking about working on their stuff, does that mean you go to your engine builder and work on the dyno or buy the latest trick peice? I called for a cam shaft from Bullet cams and the first words out of the salesman was "who's your engine builder?". I said you are talking to him! I'd like to know what is meant by work on your stuff? Yes, I stopped working as hard as I can, but I build my own engines and work in my garage with limited time and funding. I think that old guys use the "Purple Pill", why not let us slow guys who work on our own stuff in ower own garage use the "Blue Bottle" to catch up with the guys who work on their professionally bought stuff? I'm angry because I keep hearing about lowering the indexes, my car is carrying weight from a car from 1968 Stock Eliminator. Which never got lifted off and just keeps on getting more weight because professional engine builders find more horsepower on a dyno so that the purchaser of the engine can go faster.
Work on your stuff, what a joke!

Casey Miles
248H

Mr. Miles-

Your post is exactly what I've been posting about. Because some racers are more fortunate, guys like you, which by the way, I admire, want things given too them. You want the "blue bottle" to be fast! How about taking pride in the fact you're doing it on your own. The potential is their, you said it in your post.

Cars aren't just fast because of an engine. They're fast because of the whole package. "Work on your stuff," at least from me, means torque convertor on back. Balancer, forward. You can pick a car up quite a bit with refining the good parts you already have. It's not always about making horsepower. Most of the time, it's about refining it, and applying it.

Sean