1975 Index System

[Tony Janes]

Do not hold your breath on any sanctioning bodies developing heads up eliminators, for sure not NHRA.

[randy wilson]

Don't worry. I ain't holding my breath.

[Robert Swartz]

Originally Posted by Tony Janes

Do not hold your breath on any sanctioning bodies developing heads up eliminators, for sure not NHRA.

Or IHRA either. The thread has been hijacked. It's winter and everyone is already going stir crazy. The obligatory thread about a heads up no dial class starts anew, LOL!

Thought this thread was about the old index system. I don't remember the par system myself. I do remember it was late 74, early 75 when the index system was adopted. FWIW, it has served it's purpose. It kept cars in the class. One thing about running off national records, it kept guys honest. It also limited class participation.

The rules today are what we have. We aren't going back. Are some combos soft, yes. That was what people sought years ago as well. The day of discovering something and keeping it secret from the rest of the country, with the internet. That's past history. The Ford 302 gift combo fits that paradigm. How many of these are going to pop up over the next season?

I could start a real sh#! storm. I like the old AHRA Formula Stock rules of the 70's. That gave virtually everything a place to race. From 2 four barrels to 2 barrels. On a corporate level, if a combo came in a car, you could adapt it to any other car. It would suffer the same crisis that the NHRA purists have with crate motor cars. They wouldn't be "stock"? On top of that, it would be a real pain to police, much worse than what we have today.

I'll go back and work on my soft combo FFFord. Give it a couple more years and we won't be having this conversation. New cars will dominate most of the classes. Those of us trying to build low class cars will probably be legislated out of existence.