HP Adjustments on NHRA.com

[Rat Raceway]

427 COPO's take another hit! One more HP on the 12 & 13's and they are natural AA cars.

[Paul Precht]

Whats up with the 70 GTX 6pak, it's listed twice, at 393 and 422 HP.

[Nick Heath]

Originally Posted by Paul Precht

Whats up with the 70 GTX 6pak, it's listed twice, at 393 and 422 HP.

It looks like 393 is the factor with the factory head, 422 is the factor with the replacement Edelbrock head.

[farmco r/sa]

Originally Posted by Rat Raceway

427 COPO's take another hit! One more HP on the 12 & 13's and they are natural AA cars.

fortunate for those who have a 2014.....

[Bernie Cunningham]

Is it just me seeing something for the first time or is there an unusually long list of requests in this report?

[SPS]

So NHRA has done it again.

First, Michael is absolutely correct in that an engine does not know what chassis
it's in. The HP factors for straight SS and GT have never made any sense to me, or any competent engine builder for that matter.

Now you want to say it matters if it's a RWD or FWD conversion???

Having been involved in the sport from the inset of GT, (and anyone that was) will remember that in the beginning, the GT cars were considerably slower than the straight SS cars.
Where did the difference come from??
WORK!!!!
These cars were owned and raced by people that worked on their stuff and made it fast.

I suggest the same thing is today with the conversion cars.

Back In the old modified days (yea, I'm old), when you got outrun, you went home and worked on your stuff. No crying on the internet, no emails, and certainly no AHFS.

I suggest the rest go work on their s##t and low and behold, be just as fast.

FJ

[Ed Wright]

Well stated F.J.! Very few work hard to make their stuff fast anymore. Bracket racers.

[Doug McCue]

for three years I have asked the 1970 - 402/375 in a camaro be refactored and each time has been not changed. The combo is not correct with current hp thoughts what should be the next step?

[Casey Miles]

I see the new cars in a different way, everyone of the new cars introduced to NHRA competition should have 100 HP added to the stock HP rating and let them race the HP off. This way the racers will have to make the cars run what they can run and not get a gift of qualifying at the top of the fields. Every time I go to a race, I see the new cars with hardly having to take the valve covers off to run 1 second under. These cars in the most part don't belong in Stock anyway, they don't have Vin numbers to be legal on the street and they don't have motors that are in regular production with the vehicles. Nothing will change, just the car counts going down because the older cars can't compete with the new technology. In 1970, the Z/28 350 which has been re rated now, was rated at 400 hp in 1970, solid lifter, carburetor and distributor. How does a 1998 and newer 350 which has roller cam, fuel injection and crank trigger end up with less HP the the 1970 engine?
Just my point of view.

Casey Miles
248H "F" NHRA Stock

[countrypuppy4865]

Bernie, with the new request form on the nhra website they had a lengthy list last year as well.